This was not a thing I needed.
Oct. 3rd, 2014 05:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kaberettContent note for "real names" bullshit.
There is someone I have known for about a year. She's been working at a different site due to lack of lab space; she moved here last week and has been assigned a desk behind mine.
Half an hour ago she asked me if I was coming down to beers. "Maybe, I've got some labwork to do," I said. She looked over my shoulder at the paperwork spread across my desk.
"Oh!" she said. "Your name's not Alex!"
... whereupon I realised the uppermost page just happened to have my full name on it. My full name, about which I'd been feeling gently pleased ten minutes earlier.
"Um, yes it is," I said, covering my first two names with one hand and pointing to the "Alex" with the other. In desperation, I gave her a string of examples of other people I know who use their second or third names. "Oh," she said, "I suppose I do know someone who's really called [name] but uses Ash."
... yeah. Her having-been-gone-for-half-an-hour later, I am rapidly hitting the point of "relaxed enough again to actually cry at my desk."
:-(
There is someone I have known for about a year. She's been working at a different site due to lack of lab space; she moved here last week and has been assigned a desk behind mine.
Half an hour ago she asked me if I was coming down to beers. "Maybe, I've got some labwork to do," I said. She looked over my shoulder at the paperwork spread across my desk.
"Oh!" she said. "Your name's not Alex!"
... whereupon I realised the uppermost page just happened to have my full name on it. My full name, about which I'd been feeling gently pleased ten minutes earlier.
"Um, yes it is," I said, covering my first two names with one hand and pointing to the "Alex" with the other. In desperation, I gave her a string of examples of other people I know who use their second or third names. "Oh," she said, "I suppose I do know someone who's really called [name] but uses Ash."
... yeah. Her having-been-gone-for-half-an-hour later, I am rapidly hitting the point of "relaxed enough again to actually cry at my desk."
:-(
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Date: 2014-10-03 04:39 pm (UTC)(Good things: I slept really well. I have filled out my application for DSA and will post it on my way home. My useless ex is going to be rocking up for dinner and snuggles at some point this evening. He &
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Date: 2014-10-05 01:11 pm (UTC)(I can probably think of some more if I try, but that's without even trying.)
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Date: 2014-10-03 08:01 pm (UTC)*hugs*
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Date: 2014-10-04 06:59 am (UTC)Fear of that sort of thing was what made me drop my sixth form gender-neutral nickname when I started university.
Sorry that happened to you.
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Date: 2014-10-04 11:56 am (UTC)Also I guess Mark Twain is a giant fraud too. And, like, all of the Bronte sisters when they originally published. And I could list a bunch of other people if that would make you feel better.
GUESS WHAT WORLD, SOMETIMES THE NAME OUR PARENTS GIFTED US WITH IS CRAP AND AS GROWN-ASS ADULTS WE GET TO CHOOSE A DIFFERENT NAME AND YOU SHOULD RESPECT THAT AND NOT BE AN ASS.
*sends good thoughts about your day from hell and also righteous indignation*
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