"Nosane iro gavane domorakoshi, Diynen'd'ma'purvene?"

[redqueenmeg.livejournal.com]

Sorry, my geek is showing again.

Anyway, I must really not be speaking English today.

ME: (name of helpdesk), this is Megan, how can I help you?
HIM: Hello, Patty, I am having problems with VPN.

x-posted to customers_suck

Comments

[krrayn.livejournal.com]

Holy crap that's funny.

Our receptionist's name is Angie, and she's been called so many different things by people who NEVER seem to register her actual name no matter how many times they talk to her. Including:

Amy
Julie
Nancy
Sandy
Sarah
Susan

I'm sure you get the idea. But where the hell they pull Patty out of Megan is... bizarre.

[twitchfetish.livejournal.com]

name according to employee registry: Matt

name according to various customers: Mike, Mark, Mart(!), Mel, Nick, Nathan, Rod(?!?!?), Mal and Mort.

*sigh*

deaf as posts with the attention spans of pickled gnats...

IV

[redqueenmeg.livejournal.com]

Hey, there, Matt, when I did email support at Dell, I had many clients who would mentally block the fact I am female and would address me in their return emails as Matt. Or else as "Mr. Megan."

[twitchfetish.livejournal.com]

oh god....did they say "oog" and have craggy brows as well?

IV

[redqueenmeg.livejournal.com]

I haven't the faintest notion. I thanked my lucky stars on a daily basis at that job that I didn't actually have to LOOK at the customers. :)

[toxico.livejournal.com]

My real name: Christian

My name according to customers: Kevin, Richard, Celeste (wtf), Stoney (again, wtf), Jordan (WTF x 10²⁵²!!!!), Tristan (okay, this one I can see), Chris (I fucking HATE it when people abbreviate my name)...

The beat list goes on...

[nightsinger.livejournal.com]

I can kind of see Jordan.

Y'know. Provided you're doing a LOT of psychotropic drugs.

:D I get "Celeste" a lot, too. About as often as I get "Dorothy," really. ... My name is Sora.

[110billion.livejournal.com]

Name: Tim
List...
-Jim
-Kim (a hell of a lot)
-Sorry, I wasn't paying attention
-Steve (wtf!?!)
-Mark (wtf even more!?)
Can't think of any others at the moment

[redqueenmeg.livejournal.com]

A coworker of mine is named Tim and on many calls I'll hear him answer, throw the phone on mute and shout, "MY NAME IS NOT JIM!"

Most of my callers, to be fair, think my name is "HELLO??!?!?!?!?!?!?!!"

[110billion.livejournal.com]

Welcome to DSL support, my name's ... Shut the fuck up, you won't get it right anyhow.

[the-s-guy.livejournal.com]

Who. I'm Steve, and I get "Tim" a lot.

No, I have no idea why.

[110billion.livejournal.com]

End users never cease to amaze.

[nightsinger.livejournal.com]

I so feel you on this.

My name is Sora. Here are the most common things I get. Not ALL of the weird shit, just the absolute most common.

Laura, Dora, Zora, Ora, Laurie. These make sense, and I've stopped bothering to correct them.

Arnell. This one is very recent, but has been popping up reliably since I got married and changed my last name.

Celeste, Dorothy. These two were extremely regular back when I was using my maiden name. Now, not so much.

[v3nu5.livejournal.com]

I just snorted my drink on my monitor.
Hahahaha.

CLASSIC!