> I can certainly understand being called Dave
when I get hired at the same time as another
new employee whose name is Dave. Mixing
the two new guys up when they are known as
"Don" and "Dave" makes sense. (That was at
my last job.)

How is your job hunt going, anyway? It must
be keeping you pretty busy.

> Does anyone else here have any stories
about having their name mangled or changed
completely?

With the name "John," I've never had to suffer
the indignity of having my name mangled. I did
have an old high school teacher call me
"Kevin" a couple years ago, but he's the
stereotypical absent-minded professor type,
and he got it right once he saw my name tag
anyway. Occasionally people will call me
"Jonathan," moreso now that I have a son by
that name, but that's the worst of it.

My last name, however is a different story. It
gets mangled all the time.

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