So I've been working in this office for nearly two months now.
For some reason, my cubicle neighbour has come up with the idea that my name is Claude. My name is not Claude, nobody's name is Claude, there is no Claude. I don't know where he got this idea.
But it's a very unusual situation. Like I understand not remembering someone's name, but usually when that happens you avoid addressing them by name until someone else says it, you don't just guess a random name.
At this point he's addressed me as Claude on two separate occasions and both times I was too surprised to correct him, so now he probably feels vindicated in my Claudiness.
TL, how do I resolve this? Should I just be part-Claude for the next two months here? Should I wear a nametag to work? Or just go the boring route and tell him my name is not Claude?
On February 26 2014 01:52 GTPGlitch wrote: Have you ever been attacked by a bear or other wild animal?
Are you sure he's not calling you clawed?
This didn't happen to me nor was it a "wild animal" per se, but my little brother was attacked by a Golden Retriever around the age of 7 and my mom had to kill it with a bat because it wouldn't get off him.
Or go to your neighbour to discuss something, and let some other coworker call you for something urgent, of course by your real name. It would be very funny if that coworker would proceed to call you claude just to tease you, increasing the problem.
On February 26 2014 02:01 Yorbon wrote: Boring route.
Or go to your neighbour to discuss something, and let some other coworker call you for something urgent, of course by your real name. It would be very funny if that coworker would proceed to call you claude just to tease you, increasing the problem.
Nothing to discuss, we don't work on the same stuff. We've only talked a few times, first about the hockey game vs the U.S. and today he came to jack my 2nd monitor because he noticed I wasn't using it.
On February 26 2014 02:01 Yorbon wrote: Boring route.
Or go to your neighbour to discuss something, and let some other coworker call you for something urgent, of course by your real name. It would be very funny if that coworker would proceed to call you claude just to tease you, increasing the problem.
Off-topic but I want to say that I love Dutch people on internet forums, they are always the funniest. This post cracks me up, thanks.
Just tell him your real name and laugh about it as an icebreaker / bonding experience. Things dont have to be awkward as much as they can just be funny.
On February 26 2014 01:52 GTPGlitch wrote: Have you ever been attacked by a bear or other wild animal?
Are you sure he's not calling you clawed?
I think it's pronounced Clohhde
Anyways, the OP is too funy. That's just the best wrong name mix up I could ever wish for. I've never even met a Claude. I have no idea how he would get the idea though.
On February 26 2014 01:51 Darkwhite wrote: Start calling him Carl.
Pure win, haha
On February 26 2014 01:45 Alzadar wrote: So I've been working in this office for nearly two months now.
For some reason, my cubicle neighbour has come up with the idea that my name is Claude. My name is not Claude, nobody's name is Claude, there is no Claude. I don't know where he got this idea.
But it's a very unusual situation. Like I understand not remembering someone's name, but usually when that happens you avoid addressing them by name until someone else says it, you don't just guess a random name.
At this point he's addressed me as Claude on two separate occasions and both times I was too surprised to correct him, so now he probably feels vindicated in my Claudiness.
TL, how do I resolve this? Should I just be part-Claude for the next two months here? Should I wear a nametag to work? Or just go the boring route and tell him my name is not Claude?
the correct polite way would be to tell him your real name next time obviously if i were you i would go the opposite way and twist the situation to get a good laugh out of it. if he's sarcastic to everyone or just generally mocking people, definitely do this; if he is just trying to be friendly and is confused then just go the polite way.
Pretend to do something that would cause alarm and send him to your boss. When he says "Claude" fucked up, he will he subjected to drug tests and psychiatric evaluation.
On February 26 2014 04:15 Jerubaal wrote: Wear a name tag one day. He'll notice and no embarrassment for anyone.
Except for the moron wearing the name tag at work, you mean.
People wear name tags sometimes. It's not hard to believe that someone just forgot to take it off. You don't have to wear it all day, just for 5 minutes until he sees you.
On February 26 2014 04:15 Jerubaal wrote: Wear a name tag one day. He'll notice and no embarrassment for anyone.
Except for the moron wearing the name tag at work, you mean.
People wear name tags sometimes. It's not hard to believe that someone just forgot to take it off. You don't have to wear it all day, just for 5 minutes until he sees you.
I work in a government office building, people don't wear name tags.
"It's not hard to believe that someone just forgot to take it off.", what, like "oh yeah I was just wearing this name tag at home, guess I forgot to take it off, whoops"?
My name is Shane, but seriously 2/3 people I meet call me Shawn after they've met me. I have no idea why. I don't know any Shawn or Sean's that get Shane by mistake. It's gotten to the point where I don't even bother correcting people anymore. I just roll with it. I worked with a guy at a job during high school for 2 years and he called me Shawn starting day 1, despite the other 30 people we worked with all calling me Shane in front of him countless times, day in and day out.
This happened to me once when I was in HS. My Football coach kept calling me by my brothers name, he did this off and on for almost two years. My brother is 5 years older than me too, so he wasn't even in HS when I was there. I think the problem is that he taught my brother a lot more than me, so his name was ingrained in his mind.
Honestly, if I were you, I wouldn't ever tell him my real name (assuming he actually doesn't know, and isn't just calling you Claude as a joke). Then you'd have like your own secret identity. People around the office would call you Alzadar like usual, and then you'd have that one special coworker who just calls you Claude for seemingly no reason. Months or even years would go by before he'd notice. Then he'd be all like,
"Your name is Alzadar? Why didn't you tell me I was saying it wrong?"
Then you'd be like,
"Didn't I?"
Then you'd take a long sip out of your coffee mug and nonchalantly go back to work while he just stands there, pondering about his grasp on reality.
They could make MOVIE out of this! Or at least small segment in tv show like Friends.
Honestly though, I agree with people saying don't tell him. If he was at least close to your name then it would be fine to correct him. For example, if you were Brendan and he called you Brennan. That's a simple mistake. But if he is completely off it's because he doesn't give a shit about you, or is completely stupid.
I'm surprised you have let someone call you the incorrect name twice. Personally I would just make a joke out of it and next time he says Claude just say "who is this Claude? I'm Shottaz" but be polite and say "don't worry, mistakes happen sometimes"
People seem to call me Chris a lot, it's not my name. They get a phonecall if they use it in an email.
On February 26 2014 09:23 TheEmulator wrote: Honestly though, I agree with people saying don't tell him. If he was at least close to your name then it would be fine to correct him. For example, if you were Brendan and he called you Brennan. That's a simple mistake. But if he is completely off it's because he doesn't give a shit about you, or is completely stupid.
Yo is my name listed somewhere? There's no way this was just a lucky guess.
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