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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by Outsider9042@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

I found someone in our user database with the name “Deekshita Anusri”. I then imagined the poor soul at the border who had to read that name in front of the person named so.

I’d love to hear some stories about times something like this actually happened.

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[-] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 53 points 8 months ago

Dikshit is a name you have to get used to saying with a straight face if you work with a bunch of Indians.

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 16 points 8 months ago

Is it pronounced the way it looks?

[-] spittingimage@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

A talk show host in my country failed to keep a straight face over the name and lost his job. It's okay though, we don't miss him.

[-] waz@lemmy.world 43 points 8 months ago

When I worked at a car dealership there was a service customer named Stuart Pidasso.

Over the intercom, when they announced "Stu Pidasso, your car is ready" it sounded like "Stupid asshole, your car is ready".

I thought it was pretty funny.

[-] CuddlyCassowary@lemmy.world 23 points 8 months ago

My cousin’s full name is Christopher Patrick Bacon. He goes by Chris P. Bacon and just embraces it. His parents knew.

[-] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 5 points 8 months ago

How could you not, it's just too tasty.

[-] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

Lean into the Bacon

[-] scytale@lemm.ee 10 points 8 months ago

His parents knew what they were doing.

[-] CuddlyCassowary@lemmy.world 33 points 8 months ago

First day in the dorms at college I see a name tag next to a door that says “Shithead” and thought what a mean joke to play! Turns out her name was shi-thee-ad. Rest of the year she was Thea.

Also worked with a woman named “Noname” (no-nam-ay) and apparently that gave her all sorts of trouble on official forms.

[-] garbagebagel@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)
[-] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 4 points 8 months ago

Of all the videos I've ever seen, that was definitely one of them.

[-] CuddlyCassowary@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

I have no idea what I just watched, but I would date her.

[-] dingus@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

I only like anal ;)

[-] Bitrot 8 points 8 months ago

There are people with the last name Null and they tend to have issues with poorly written applications too.

[-] Pyroglyph@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

I heard about a guy who got a custom license plate of "NULL" and he ended up getting assigned a ton of parking/speeding tickets for every case where the ANPR system failed to read the plates.

[-] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 7 points 8 months ago

Na-a.

That's the made up kevinist name my friend's mom had to deal with.

It's pronounced similarly to 'Natasha'.

[-] scytale@lemm.ee 32 points 8 months ago
[-] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 9 points 8 months ago

Seeing an identification card that explicitly lists someone's race makes me real fuckin uncomfortable. Is this a thing in Singapore?

[-] KevonLooney@lemm.ee 2 points 8 months ago

In Singapore, minimum wage is based on your race (country of origin). For a domestic worker, they literally tell you to pay some people less money.

[-] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 2 points 8 months ago

"Race" and "country of origin" are different things though

[-] rishado@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

It's a thing in so many countries, that and religion

[-] NaoPb@eviltoast.org 1 points 8 months ago

I don't know if mine is still on my ID, but I know it used to be. I'm in Europe.

[-] elbarto777@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago
[-] NaoPb@eviltoast.org 1 points 8 months ago

I don't tend to look at my ID daily since I have a drivers' license. And my wallet is in the other room.

[-] elbarto777@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago
[-] ShunkW@lemmy.world 22 points 8 months ago

If my old coworkers find my account, oh well. I work in software engineering. At my old job I found an employee named "The Angel of Ephesus". No joke. His legal last name was "Ephesus", first name "The Angel Of". Dude had lots of paranoid postings all over the Internet. Glad he didn't live near me, and I had no reason to ever interact with him.

The only reason I found him was because we had an issue syncing employee names after a name change was completed in the HR system. We had to do a one time update after we fixed the bug.

[-] theKalash@feddit.ch 20 points 8 months ago

My mum was a receptionists at a doctors office and she once met a guy called "Reiner Essig", which in German means "pure vinegar".

[-] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

You think it was a concidence? Was he cool with fries?

[-] KISSmyOS@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

My dad had a work colleague from the US who was named "Melitta Filter".

[-] spittingimage@lemmy.world 19 points 8 months ago

I work in healthcare. We have a Dr Blood, Dr Bones and Dr Slaughter. Perfect supervillain team right there.

[-] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

They should band together and start their own medical corporation

[-] DudeDudenson@lemmings.world 18 points 8 months ago

There's a very common last name from Spain that is slang on my country for "cunt".

Had to call an old lady and say hello miss **** back in my call center days.

Everyone who heard me on the floor laughed their asses off

[-] Travalanche@lemmy.world 13 points 8 months ago

Why did you censor the other word, but not "cunt?"

[-] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 12 points 8 months ago

Because that's not a naughty word where he lives.

[-] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

As the Aussies would say, he's a right good Cunny

[-] m4xie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 8 months ago

Protecting the ladies identity.

[-] Bitrot 11 points 8 months ago

Heaven forbid we know a common name.

[-] SgtAStrawberry@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago

Reminds me of the people that asked for advice on location specific things, and don't want to say what country they in because it might dox them.

[-] gandalf_der_12te@feddit.de 2 points 8 months ago
[-] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 4 points 8 months ago

Aha! Now I got you! I'm sending a Swat team there this very instant!

[-] Guajojo@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago

It's concha Right?

[-] TechyDad@lemmy.world 15 points 8 months ago

Not a customs officer, but over a decade back I had job duties that involved posting photos of babies online. The parents would give their consent, maternity would snap the photos, and I'd put them on the website (complete with the option to order prints).

One of the babies was named "Secret Angel." First name Secret, middle name Angel. That girl would likely be in her teens or early twenties by now. I still sometimes wonder if Secret had any trouble with her name given how much kids can bully other kids for the slightest thing.

[-] sfxrlz@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

I can only imagine their last name. And what did the parents call her by if they got mad ? Something like … „Secret angel Patterson, come here right now“.

[-] NaoPb@eviltoast.org 1 points 8 months ago

That sounds like the parents thought they were naming a video game character.

[-] otp@sh.itjust.works 11 points 8 months ago

I had a job where I had to say customer's names. Usually first name was fine, but maybe 1% of people hated it when you called them by it without asking, and some even hated being asked.

So last name it was.

Everything was fine.

... until Mr. Butt showed up.

[-] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 10 points 8 months ago

My peer at my last shop, named

Trust Unworried.

He didn't work in network security, though. Neither did my Spanish friend whose hyphenated name meant "good walls".

[-] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)
[-] Madrigal@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago

“Shitto” is a real name in Zimbabwe.

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