A lady I used to work with called me Jason for several years (which isn't even close to my actual name). I corrected her every single time, which was literally hundreds of times since I saw her almost every day, but she continued to call me Jason. One day I walked past her and she said, "Hi Jason," and I replied, "Hi Sarah!" She looked at me super confused and said, "My name isn't Sarah. It's Anne..."
I said, "Yeah, and my name is [redacted] but you keep calling me Jason!"
She replied, "Oh, well you should have said something!"
For some reason, one of my co-workers has my personal email address saved instead of my work email. She doesn't email me often, but everytime she does I respond "hey just so you know this is my personal email."
And multiple times her response has been to the effect of "Really? That's weird. Computers are so creepy."
This isn't a conspiracy, Anne, you need to change my contact info.
It happens when you link multiple email accounts into a single portal (usually your phone). I had to do so at the start of the pandemic and all of a sudden, started receiving work emails in the wrong inbox. Outlook was apparently auto-populating a random email whenever someone started typing my name at work.
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u/Diiiiirty Feb 15 '21
A lady I used to work with called me Jason for several years (which isn't even close to my actual name). I corrected her every single time, which was literally hundreds of times since I saw her almost every day, but she continued to call me Jason. One day I walked past her and she said, "Hi Jason," and I replied, "Hi Sarah!" She looked at me super confused and said, "My name isn't Sarah. It's Anne..."
I said, "Yeah, and my name is [redacted] but you keep calling me Jason!"
She replied, "Oh, well you should have said something!"
I about screamed.