Best way to correct someone who calls you by the wrong name?

[hongkongfever]

So at work certain people keeps calling me by the wrong name. They get me mixed up with a friend who works there. Now aside from the fact that we're both Asian, I don't see how they can get us confused. What boggles the mind is some of the people who calls me by the wrong name are people whom I've personally gone out of my way to help solve their problems. So we've talked on more than one occassion.

Part of me wants to ignore them when they call me by the wrong name until they realize why I'm not responding. Part of me wants to politely correct them. And then part of me wants to start calling them by the wrong name too and see their reaction when they find out they've been doing the same to me.

But seriously, I find it very disrespectful to get someone's name wrong, especially when they've been helping you.

 

[MaverickBP]

im sorry i noticed you said you were asian and then i saw your avatar and lost all train of thought...

 

[xospec1alk]

reminds of the 1800-TBS-funny commercials heheh

anyways next time they call you the wrong name, just correct them.

blah blah blah MIKE blah blah

excuse me, thats hongkongforever....

 

[frodrick]

A) asians all look the same. you're sol.
B) calling one of them by the wrong name won't result in them realizing they are calling you the wrong name.

 

[FlyLice]

Quit being a polite asian.

 

[Ryan]

I get called by the wrong name on a daily basis - just because nobody knows how to pronounce my last name "Bloedow". I've just come to accept that not everyone will get it right. In fact, I just answer to "blow-doe" without even thinking about it.

It's become my nickname I guess.

 

[StageLeft]

Go by Chinaman 1 and Chinaman 2, which is easy enough for your simple-minded co-workers to grasp.

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

Wear a name tag.

 

[FlyLice]

Start calling them by the wrong name, see how they correct you, repeat.

 

[DotheDamnTHing]

Originally posted by: rbloedow
I get called by the wrong name on a daily basis - just because nobody knows how to pronounce my last name "Bloedow". I've just come to accept that not everyone will get it right. In fact, I just answer to "blow-doe" without even thinking about it.

It's become my nickname I guess.

so how do you pronounce it?

piqued my interest

 

[HardcoreRobot]

say...

my name is ______

or if they are saying it wrong....

its pronounced ________

 

[Ryan]

Originally posted by: DotheDamnTHing

Originally posted by: rbloedow
I get called by the wrong name on a daily basis - just because nobody knows how to pronounce my last name "Bloedow". I've just come to accept that not everyone will get it right. In fact, I just answer to "blow-doe" without even thinking about it.

It's become my nickname I guess.

so how do you pronounce it?

piqued my interest

blay-doe, like playdough but with a "B"

 

[DotheDamnTHing]

Originally posted by: rbloedow

Originally posted by: DotheDamnTHing

Originally posted by: rbloedow
I get called by the wrong name on a daily basis - just because nobody knows how to pronounce my last name "Bloedow". I've just come to accept that not everyone will get it right. In fact, I just answer to "blow-doe" without even thinking about it.

It's become my nickname I guess.

so how do you pronounce it?

piqued my interest

blay-doe, like playdough but with a "B"

lol..i could see why people say blow-dow...i would too

 

[ragazzo]

Originally posted by: Nik
Wear a name tag.

 

[Queasy]

Oh, lighten up and have fun with it. A BA at my last job kept getting mine and another guy's name in our group mixed up. We'd just just joke about it and tease her until she finally got it right.

Other than the fact that we were both white, we didn't look anything alike. I'm tall, relatively skinny, and have a goatee. He was shorter, chunky, clean shaven, with long sideburns.

 

[hongkongfever]

Okay here's the other thing. I'm Asian but I do have an American name. So it's not like they cannot get it right. I don't want to come off as rude because I am hoping to get hired full time there. My friend gets called by the wrong name (my name) too. He seems to stop caring but I care since I want to work there long term. And I guess I find it more disrespectful than he does.

 

[hongkongfever]

Originally posted by: Queasy
Oh, lighten up and have fun with it. A BA at my last job kept getting mine and another guy's name in our group mixed up. We'd just just joke about it and tease her until she finally got it right.

Other than the fact that we were both white, we didn't look anything alike. I'm tall, relatively skinny, and have a goatee. He was shorter, chunky, clean shaven, with long sideburns.

Yeah but if you go through some trouble to help this person out and didn't ask for anything back, the least they could do is get your name right.

 

[xospec1alk]

dude how is correcting them going to come off as rude. just say im sorry, but my name is so and so..

and i think the longer you wait to say something about it makes you seem like a bigger banana-head

 

[Queasy]

Originally posted by: hongkongfever

Originally posted by: Queasy
Oh, lighten up and have fun with it. A BA at my last job kept getting mine and another guy's name in our group mixed up. We'd just just joke about it and tease her until she finally got it right.

Other than the fact that we were both white, we didn't look anything alike. I'm tall, relatively skinny, and have a goatee. He was shorter, chunky, clean shaven, with long sideburns.

Yeah but if you go through some trouble to help this person out and didn't ask for anything back, the least they could do is get your name right.

We both spent a lot of time helping out this BA...the other guy moreso than me. Like I said, we just joked, teased, and had a good time with it. It eventually was ingrained in her mind what name went with who.

Work is a giant pain in the ass enough already. Don't do anything to make it worse.

 

[hongkongfever]

Originally posted by: xospec1alk
dude how is correcting them going to come off as rude. just say im sorry, but my name is so and so..

and i think the longer you wait to say something about it makes you seem like a bigger banana-head

Well I guess I think it's somewhat rude because you would be putting that person on the spot as looking like an idiot.

 

[Goosemaster]

"heh you!....no no..stop talking...no I didn't get the TPS reports...STFU....My name is hong-kong-fever...say it with me..."

 

[FoBoT]

just tell them to call you "Bob"

 

[intogamer]

Originally posted by: ragazzo

Originally posted by: Nik
Wear a name tag.

hello my name is
FVCK YOU

:laugh:

 

[Zebo]

Immediatly interupt and say your name, that's it.

Should'nt take more than a couple times.

 

[OrByte]

One of the managers here (actually an asst deputy director now) has mispronounced my name from day one.

Been working here off and on for almost 5 years now...havent corrected him ever.

think its too late?