Dear Queenie,
I work in an office where we all have name plates on our desks as well as on the office doors for those who have private offices. However, there’s this one person who spells my name wrong whenever he leaves me a note or sends me an e-mail.
I find this very annoying. It’s not as if he can’t see for himself how my name is spelled.
Queenie, how would you handle this?—Mis-spelled
Dear Mis-spelled,
I work in a journalistic setting where the very first professional rule is “GET THE NAMES RIGHT!!!” and yet this same thing has happened to me.
My solution: Return any communication with your name mis-spelled to the sender with a note: “Nobody here by that name. My name is … (spelled correctly).” And ignore the content until your name is spelled correctly (unless it is urgent, will affect the quality of your own work, or comes from your boss).
