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Boss and coworkers keep calling employee by the wrong name despite efforts to correct them: 'Time to start butchering their names'

Calling your employees by their preferred name seems like the bare minimum regarding proper workplace treatment. It doesn't really get more disrespectful than ignoring someone's constant corrections. 

This Redditor's name ends with an -a but is constantly referred to by a similar-sounding name that ends with an -e. If this were perhaps their first few weeks on the job, then the mistakes would be understandable. But there's really no excuse for the mixups at this point, especially when the Original Poster (OP) is constantly putting their correct name in writing for clarification. More importantly, it has been almost an entire year at this company and still, there has not been any improvement. Most recently, OP sent an email to their boss and to HR about a different matter, and while HR  used the correct spelling, OP's boss still misspelled their name on five occasions. It feels personal at this point, which is why several folks in the comments section suggested that it's time OP starts calling everyone else by the wrong name. See how it feels!

For more stories like this, take a look at this post about how an employee got back at a power-tripping Karen and took over her position.

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Posted by BenWeiss
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