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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	tofuknight 2009-06-18 08:20 pm UTC (link)
	Really? That is my name (spelled differently) and I suffered through 12 years in public school of having to tell every single teacher not to call me "Cathy". No really, I do not want a shortened form. One subsititute in the district refused to register the message and called me Cathy anyway. I took to refusing to answer. :D And oh God, the spelling issues.... (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

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2009-06-18 08:25 pm UTC (link)

Odd. I've always had every teacher ask what I prefer, I say, "I go by Cathryn," and that's the end of it. I was called Cathy once in a debate club, but that was for simplicity's sake - there was a Katherine (or however she spelled it) and she was older, so I got the nickname. That I didn't mind.

. . . I did have a teacher spend half the school year calling me Carolyn, but that wasn't on purpose. XD I think the spelling confused him.

Aaaand yeah. People who can spell my name are the exception. Isn't it amazing, how people can misspell something you have just spelled out to them, or even better, something they routinely see on PAPERWORK?

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