Dikshit is a name you have to get used to saying with a straight face if you work with a bunch of Indians.
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Is it pronounced the way it looks?
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.
My cousin’s full name is Christopher Patrick Bacon. He goes by Chris P. Bacon and just embraces it. His parents knew.
How could you not, it's just too tasty.
Lean into the Bacon
His parents knew what they were doing.
Seeing an identification card that explicitly lists someone's race makes me real fuckin uncomfortable. Is this a thing in Singapore?
It's a thing in so many countries, that and religion
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.
"Race" and "country of origin" are different things though
I don't know if mine is still on my ID, but I know it used to be. I'm in Europe.
How do you not know?
I don't tend to look at my ID daily since I have a drivers' license. And my wallet is in the other room.
Oh I see.
My mum was a receptionists at a doctors office and she once met a guy called "Reiner Essig", which in German means "pure vinegar".
You think it was a concidence? Was he cool with fries?
My dad had a work colleague from the US who was named "Melitta Filter".
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.
There are people with the last name Null and they tend to have issues with poorly written applications too.
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.
Na-a.
That's the made up kevinist name my friend's mom had to deal with.
It's pronounced similarly to 'Natasha'.
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.
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“.
That sounds like the parents thought they were naming a video game character.
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.
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.
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".
Shadynasty's
Shady Nasty's?
He's outta heer
“Shitto” is a real name in Zimbabwe.
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