The two that stand out the most to me are a lady named Icee Mounds, and a name that I think was just mean by the parents. I worked in IT and had to add him to our systems, which was based on first name, lastname.
This nice guy had the last name of Pickelsymer. Now that is bad, but his first name was Virgil.
Who the heck names their kid Virgil?
So, I am adding him to the system and I say, "Virgil?" He responds with, I go by Kevin. Not sure how to respond, I said that I understand, and put him in the system as Kevin.
His parent's thought, Pickelsymer wasn't enough to torment him, lets add Virgil....
I always thought that was worse than a boy named Sue.

well with the way the youth is going, by the time a kid turns 18 and starting on hormone therapy. ABCDE will be a Steve, and a boy named Sue will be a female.

Actually it does - it's weird now because people haven't seen it much. Soon ABCDE will be up there with Jane and no one will comment. Unlike my coworker Chastity.

And when you look at sharing the name via social media from an objective standpoint, the pronunciation and novelty of the name becomes known so that when people do en counter and abcde they will treat them normally.

The only thing I see that was wrong in sharing via social media was using the ticket with the airline's name on it, don't involve the corporation you work for in your social media life unless you want them to own your account.

Btw, you seem to only mention two, when there were more in my analogy. Let me explain better.

The placement of the chair is the name, a choice of the mother.

The natural reaction to that placement of the chair results in a hot chair.

The mother complains of the chair getting hot despite placing the chair in the sun.

She could make the choice to have placed the chair in the shade.

What type of chair is it ? :D The mom might as well named the kid bar stool ......... any way you slice it the mom is nuts and the kid will have a tough future because her mom is/was nuts . Like kids don't have enough issues growing up in todays society :rolleyes:

A Mom's off-her-rocker chair :)

Tervuren, you appear comfortable giving the Southwest employee a pass for behaving poorly. While it was the crazy mom’s choice to name her kid (place the chair in the sun in your haiku/anology), and it was the crazy mom who is complaining...please remember the kid is 5 years old and the employee should not have laughed and pointed openly at the poor little kid with the crazy mom.

IMO it is perfectly acceptable to make fun of stoopid people like that.

Idiocracy, that's what yer saying right?

Eyeliner on the five year old is special.

Makes her look at least seven.

As a service professional, I could care less what someone names their child. It is their business. My job is to provide my service and make them feel their business is valued.
The mom was right to bring the behavior of the airline staffer to the attention of the company. A bit of remedial training should be in that staffer's future.
In the analogy of the deck chair in the hot sun, a real service professional would have offered a place in the sun so the family was not inconvenienced. That is good service.

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Les

"ABCDE you are on deck, Gentleman please give a round of applause for LMNOP on the pole at center stage!!"

Yeah, that all has a nice ring to it, at least they will not have to take on stage names when they grow up.

The days of Amber, Lexus and Mercedes are finally behind us.


When I was in my early 20's I knew 2 girls that were cousins and were from very wealthy families, one was Precious the other was Laetitia. Odd names super pretty girls, both were nuts.

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The ABCDE I know of was a boy.

So the name fits either way.

He was a doctor who specialized in “diseases of the rich.”

UNC wide receiver from the early 00's ( I think)....Jaworski Pollack - AAAAAND he didn't look even remotely Polish.

A few years back working IT support for same government intity I do now: part of my duties were setting up new users in the system as well as their work station / cubicle tag.

Norther Va. Is quite the melting pot of cultures from all over the world.

This 1 user, who is still there.......name: Bangin Wang - that's her name, Vietnamese I think.

Now all of you........top that

There was a kid in a small town in Massachusetts named Chevy Van Pickup. He became famous for being arrested at the ripe old age of 7.

I wonder what she goes by?

Jane...from Idaho ;)

One of my former buddies had a family name of Slutsky. For a guy I always knew he had a tough time in high school. Then he introduced me to her sister. Imaging a girl going through high school with a last name of Slutsky.

My favorite bad name is someone I met. She had a first name of Rhoda. Like the character in the Mary Tyler Moore series. OK, no big deal, and her last name was common. Then she fell in love and married a guy with the family name of Ruter. She started using her middle name of Susan.

When I was a headhunter in a previous life, there was a guy I worked with with the name "Long Long Wang".

True story, wife works at a University, mother called up to complain no one is pronouncing her daughter name correctly. Her name is La-A.

The mother said you are supposed to pronounce the dash.

So her name is pronounced Ladasha.

People ughhhhhh

People would call her 'Bang Bang' ...............I heard that she she changed her first name to Sue or Mary because appearantly I wasn't the only one who thought it was funny.

I thought it was a "minus" sign....

Laminusa .....and I have a southern drawl too!

Laminoooosa :)

I would like to point out a difference between us.

I see nothing wrong the name.

I like creative and different.

But when creative and different you have to accept that human nature and culture are prone to react to the novel.

Now, if you don't like that, you can train every possible person the child might come in contact with about her name and thus change the culture(Which is what going viral on social media does), or, you can teach the child to accept the novelty, or you can name the child differently.

+1
It’s stupid to give your child an unusual name and get pissed if everyone doesn’t get it.

We are not talking "everyone" here.
I doubt the story would have hit the news if the person laughing was some random individual. But in this case the person who got called out was working in customer service. They were not being paid to have fun at a customer's expense. They were being paid to represent their company.
If they wanted to talk about the unusual name in the break room or off the job, I understand that. But their behaviour was not professional. Censure was appropriate.

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Les

I do agree that corporate also acted according to corporate nature, and that an employee should have their employer in mind. When it comes to social media if you are putting products(such as a air pass) on social media it is best to run that by PR first. And if you make a habit of posting work related items that are not in line with the results the employer wants to see you can be terminated.

Such as Jessica Price's paying the price for angry hateful tweets at her company's customer base.

Ultimately, the mother should step back and figure out a better way to handle this.

Secondly, when working for an employer you need to set aside parts of who you are and instead don the mask of who you're working for.

Check this out. Maybe a relative? lol

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1545462708.jpg

Just this past week, I came across people by the names of Starlet, Brucelee, and (obligatory P-car content) La Porsha!