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Oh, came across one at work the other day that put me in a full panic attack. I work at a call center. The customer asked my shoe size, I answered like an idot, then he proceeded to say my name and say I have small feet over and over sounding like he was pleasuring himself. "Oh, [My name] you have such small feet. So small feet [my name]." Odd!
I actually talked about this in therapy today to learn better things to say and how to loop customers back into why they called, in general. It was that bad for me. Sadly, I have a sterotypical "erotic" name. Which makes it all so much worse! I want to use a fake name but we are not allowed to do that.
Who made the rule that you can't have a nickname? Pick a name you like, and tell people you have always preferred to be called by this name by your friends.....then just keep reminding them till they switch. As a teacher, I have to use my legal name on email, but I introduce and always use my nickname-and if I get a sticky note in a workshop with my legal name, I tell them I need another....that this is not my name. Now, you can always legally change your last name, but it takes a bit of money, and a court visit to do. I'm seriously not all about my last name...either......have seriously thought about changing it, too.