Yeah, theirey’re just being thorough.
At least is wasn’t losse. Or to’o.
Meh at myself for typing in “boredroom meeting, yay” in the wrong whatsapp group, with the CEO included
/Facepalm
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wow, any direct fallout? Or did your name just get added to a list somewhere?
Let’s face, it, everyone here is on a list somewhere.
I have wanted to send so many slack & SMS messages the past couple days but have held back out of paranoia that I’ll send them to the wrong place
LMAO! Freudian slip? HAHA! Sorry, man. Remind me to tell you about the worst voice mail ever that I left on a lawyer’s phone.
Bosses that think it is cool to overload people with work & tell them they need to work harder for their annual bonuses just don’t get it. The right way is to work smarter, not harder (longer hours & over weekends)…
Time to float my CV again. Ho hum.
When I worked for the paint company, I spelled the company name “OurName Pain” (instead of OurName Pain t) once in a email to a broad distribution list… and in the context of the sentence, it sounded like I was trying to slide in a passive-aggressive comment.
“No, really, boss! I like it here!”
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I know it’s childish, but I can’t get through this boring job of looking up users for a mundane task without making fun of an occasional name.
Spitznabel? Really?
My apologies to any Spitznabels who read this.
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Right there with you. We were working late one night, and it had been a very busy long day. (We may have been a bit punchy at this point.) Now imagine there’s a dude named Bill Sack on a list. 15 minutes later and we’re all still giggling at the remote possibility that his middle name is “Snut”.
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Same thing with census reports on clients here.
I’ve seen some fun ones.
My favorite client name of all time is still Shiny Thach.
We also had a Michael Hunt. He hated to be called Mike (understandably). But when he would call in to berate us for our poor whatever he felt he had been slighted on, he would call us Mr or Mrs. So I started calling him Mike in these instances. That would lead him to say “I prefer to be called Michael” to which I would quickly reply “And I prefer to be called Doctor.” He hung up on me more than once. And I don’t care.
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Well, we can’t pick our ancestors, can we?
But since geographical areas tend to be more heavily weighted to one nationality or culture, AND since the Cincy area has a large German heritage, I wouldn’t blink at Spitznabel.
I found the reverse when I went to the Boston area to visit BIL and family. We ordered pizza from the corner place and picked it up in person. Wife and BIL are Deiters (Not Deters… no relation 
) , and the staff giggled or guffawed when BIL spoke his name aloud.
I have no idea why. To my ears Deiters isn’t weird… but something made it funny to them!
I heard third-hand stories of a lady who worked in a county aid office and “collected” weird names. Apocryphal, urban legend, maybe, but still…
Aquanet (Ă quā net)
Shithead (Shĭt hēd)
…
Didn’t Steve Martin’s character in The Jerk name his dog Shithead?
Maybe something from a SNL skit? Not that unusual of a name to me, either.
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A guy I worked with (copier tech) encountered a woman of color who named her daughter “Taqueria” because “she saw it on a restaurant and thought it sounded pretty.” My co-worker was Hispanic/Latin/whatever (born here but had family in Mexico) and had a hard time trying to not laugh out loud.
Other buddy used to teach software classes…
" ‘La-a’ pronounced ‘Ladasha’, because the dash don’t be silent" I shit you not.
Tijuanisha pronounced “Taiwan-isha” like the country plus -isha
At my first job I worked with a woman who went to school with a girl they called Groovy. Her parents had named her Groovy Tits. 
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Wow, that reminded me of another one… best friend’s wife went to high school with a girl that was spawn of hippies. They named here Candice Barbara Machine. Yes. Candy Bar Machine