Don't call me Liz, BITCH.
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political_wank? I'm posting it here, since the "politics" are largely incidental. So-and-so asks Jim McDermott's secretary for an audience, and addresses her poorly ('Liz' rather than 'Elizabeth'). HOLY SHIT, you did not just go there!

A few weeks ago, the assistant e-mailed Becton seeking a meeting with McDermott and a client, JPMorgan Chase. Days later, the assistant checked back in and unfortunately began the e-mail with “Hi Liz.”

Becton curtly replied, “Who is Liz?”

When the assistant wrote back with an apology, Becton turned up the heat. “I do not go by Liz. Where did you get your information?” she asked.

The back-and-forth went on for 19 e-mails, with the assistant apologizing six times if she had “offended” Becton, while Becton lectured about name-calling.

Please, please check out the email exchange hosted on Politico.

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	also_not_a_pipe 2009-06-18 06:11 pm UTC (link)
	I do too. All I ever got was the owner of the shop next door to the one where I worked in high school, who would not stop calling me Amy no matter how often I told her that I'm Emily. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	lirazel 2009-06-19 03:57 pm UTC (link)
	And if your name were actually Amy, she would have called you Ames. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	vzg 2009-06-26 01:57 am UTC (link)
	Haha! I had a neighbor call me Dorothy a few times. My name's Kate. He just mixed me up with someone else, but I thought it was pretty funny anyway. Although one person who worked with my father once called me Kathleen (when he was reading my name), but he also got my last name wrong, so I guess he just didn't give a shit. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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