> I don't quite get it, but people often call me Doug. The really weird thing is when it happens when they only know me by "Donald". I can kind of understand confusing "Doug" and "Don"... Also, it is very weird when the person who mixes it up is a professional headhunter who has my name in about six different places via Monster.com, my resume, a letter of permission, me email address, my name at the end of an email... Plus, she has already sent me one email in which she correctly called me "Donald" at the beginning.
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> I can certainly understand being called Dave when I get hired at the same time as another new employee whose name is Dave. Mixing the two new guys up when they are known as "Don" and "Dave" makes sense. (That was at my last job.)
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> Does anyone else here have any stories about having their name mangled or changed completely? If not, I may have to tell the story of the day I was known as "Dowell" because I had a cold.
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> Don "You'd think I was going around posting to Forums under the wrong name or something" Monkey


Well, my last name is King, and a librarian thought it was Cain once. Nothing else, though people are always mispelling my first name. I'm not supposed to give out my name on the Internet, though, so I can't tell you what it is or how they mispell it. ^.^