> > 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
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> Never had my first name mangled. EVERY first day of school my entire life, the teachers have always called me "Randall Killpatrick". Once they got it right, behold a substitute would do the EXACT same thing.
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> Ran"funny thing is, I'm cousins with some Killpatricks"dy

You're not alone, Randy. Most of my teachers said Kilpatrick too.

And don't even get me started on how many times I have gotten mail or phone calls for "Miss Kelly K."

Kel"there is no MISS Kelly K. here"ly