 ptrowskiGot Helix?Premium
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Putnam, CT
kudos:4 | Ridiculous.... I have a consultant with the last name of Dikshit. Is he not allowed to get Verizon service now? |
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 JeffreyWilpon please sell the MetsPremium
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Long Island
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| said by ptrowski:I have a consultant with the last name of Dikshit. Is he not allowed to get Verizon service now? If Verizon's CSR department gets hung up on something like this, then they're in deep shi...err, stuff.
In a related story, I had a friend back in elementary school with the last name of Slutz. Yes, was always pronouced like you think it is. In the early 90s, they tried to change the pronouciation to "sluetz", with marginal success. 
I still caller her a Slutz.
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said by ptrowski:I have a consultant with the last name of Dikshit. Your consultant really needs to change his name. That or make certain he doesn't reproduce, and send more kids through school with that name. |
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join:2000-05-31
Valencia, CA
kudos:1 | reply to Jeffrey
Ya, my last name is Raper, pronounced just the way its spelled. Many people in an attempt to be polite will pronounce it "wrapper". I just avoid using my last name. When I call clients I'm "Rob, the computer guy", LOL.
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 TLS2000Crazy CanuckPremium
join:2004-02-24
Mississauga, ON
1 edit | I dunno, Rob the Raper sounds kinda catchy. 
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 tfrionliTom F.
join:2001-06-21
Kings Park, NY | reply to ptrowski
My dogs names are $hithead and stains. "Come $hithead,,come stains"
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ptrowskiGot Helix?Premium
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Putnam, CT
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said by Camelot One:said by ptrowski:I have a consultant with the last name of Dikshit. Your consultant really needs to change his name. That or make certain he doesn't reproduce, and send more kids through school with that name. Well, when dealing with some Indian consultants you see all types of fun names.
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 MaxoYour tax dollars at work.Premium,VIP
join:2002-11-04
Tallahassee, FL | An Indian name I've ran in to a few time is Shithead, pronounced shi-th-eed. |
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| said by Maxo:An Indian name I've ran in to a few time is Shithead, pronounced shi- th-eed. Strange, I thought they were all named Bob or Mike Smith
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join:2001-02-14
Brooklyn, NY | reply to Camelot One
said by Camelot One:said by ptrowski:I have a consultant with the last name of Dikshit. Your consultant really needs to change his name. That or make certain he doesn't reproduce, and send more kids through school with that name. No offense but it's the typical practical (should I say primitive?) American answer to a problem that shouldn't even exist in first place if schools weren't full of unruly, spoiled kids, coming from "families" where parental duties are apparently limited to provide the Holy Trinity of shelter and food and entertainment. 
FYI most countries have existed well before the US, along with their genealogical history and the whole idea to change your family* name sounds completely ridiculous for me - why would anyone throw away her/his family name after 500-1000 years (in perspective: 3-4x longer than the whole history of US ), long generations of ancestry?
Only to avoid insults thrown out by some stupid boorish, ill-bred loser kids?
What a nonsense.
*: FAMILY name, not last name - to me "last name" shows the lack of respect toward history including your own ancestry.
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Wow that is a new low for Customer Service, seriously....funny as hell though! |
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join:2005-12-12
Fayetteville, NY | reply to kamm
Wow, now *that's* a soapbox. |
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Got to go with Manmeet as the best name I've ever seen on a resume. |
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JeffreyWilpon please sell the MetsPremium
join:2002-12-24
Long Island
kudos:3
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If they're smart, they'll hire famous NY attorney William Kunstler to represent them.
Edit: I just checked out---Kuntsler died? 1995? Man, where the hell have I been. |
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I agree. Not just 1,000 years but many more than that. Some translations and even just the names themselves can come out as expletives or other wise even insulting to US custom. However, no one should ever have to change there name, period. I would be outraged if someone asked me to do so and there would be no end to the battle/lawsuits and what have you.
The US should not ask, or especially force, anyone one to change anything just to "fit in" to our society.
Yes, Spanish speaking but not knowing English is a problem, I think they should learn English, just like we should if we were to live in France, learn French.
But changing something that is so important to many as their name is completely out of the question and this should have never happened. I cannot imagine that this is uncommon, it is very common. I hear all sorts of last names that are what they are.
Here are a few...
Neicewonger
Fingered
Horney
Assman
I could go on and I did not even really get into the different ethnic names.
Verizon is not alone in bad customer service though, this story just happened to pick on them. Every big company has it's problems. |
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MaxoYour tax dollars at work.Premium,VIP
join:2002-11-04
Tallahassee, FL | said by keyboard5684:The US should not ask, or especially force, anyone one to change anything just to "fit in" to our society. I don't think that anyone here argues that there should be a legal requirement for immigrants to change their name. |
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said by sleepysysadmin :
Got to go with Manmeet as the best name I've ever seen on a resume.
Best last name: Hiscock
Best first name: Phuc (went by "Peter"). |
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join:1999-12-08
Suffern, NY | reply to Maxo
said by Maxo:I don't think that anyone here argues that there should be a legal requirement for immigrants to change their name. Unfortunately the illiterate INS bureaucrats at Ellis Island had a habit of doing this between January 1, 1892 and November 12, 1954 (when the immigration depot was closed) by deliberately misspelling any name they found too hard to spell or pronounce. |
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 K3
join:2008-05-06
Kankakee, IL | reply to ptrowski
I had a buddy named Mike Hunt growing up and he got teased alot, and lost alot of job opportunities along the way, I guess the country is nothing but a bunch of grown up kids to be making a fuss about this, geeeez |
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PDXPLT
join:2003-12-04
Banks, OR | reply to TLS2000
He should tell them Verizon is some expletive in Albanian or something.
That would be tit for tat, wouldn't it?  |
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