Does your boss know your name? - Democratic Underground

Susang

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Thu Mar-17-05 12:23 PM
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Does your boss know your name?

The owner of the company I work for, a person I have seen and spoken to almost every day for a year and a half, still doesn't know mine.

Is that normal? :shrug:

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sniffa

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Thu Mar-17-05 12:25 PM
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1. my boss was Lucky

my name happens to be asshoLe.

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tjwmason

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Thu Mar-17-05 02:41 PM
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22. Is that your name or your title? n/t

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Cocoa

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Thu Mar-17-05 12:25 PM
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2. does he know your number at least?

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Richardo

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Thu Mar-17-05 12:50 PM
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7. You...you know....you know my name

Edited on Thu Mar-17-05 12:55 PM by Richardo

You...you know....you KNOW you know my name.
You know my name bah ba bah bah look up the number.

Thanks for that earworm, Cocoa! :D:thumbsup:

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XNASA

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Thu Mar-17-05 12:25 PM
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3. Nobody knows my real name.

Not even me. :cry:

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ProfessorGAC

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Thu Mar-17-05 02:35 PM
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16. Tlgbtxy

That's it. Trust me.
The Professor

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XNASA

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Thu Mar-17-05 02:46 PM
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24. What a nightmare.

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crispini

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Thu Mar-17-05 12:44 PM
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4. Ok, that's weird.

My immediate boss, as well as her boss, and his boss, all know my name. I've met the CEO and the President once or twice; I doubt they'd remember my name, but then I've met them like once so I wouldn't really expect it.

Your boss is weird.

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Susang

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Thu Mar-17-05 12:52 PM
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10. I thought so too

Edited on Thu Mar-17-05 12:53 PM by Susang

Funny thing is, it's happened before. I'm starting to think I'm invisible to certain types of people. Rich white men who own multi-million dollar businesses, that they work closely with, that is.

Everybody else in the damn place knows my name. I'm the one they all go to when they need something done correctly or fixed.

I think I'm just having a bad day. I need a drink and it's not even noon. :cry:

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chromotone

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Thu Mar-17-05 12:48 PM
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5. I go where EVERYBODY knows my name!

Hi, Chrome! The usual?

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fluffernutter

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Thu Mar-17-05 12:49 PM
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6. my boss, yes. the CEO, no.

he's new.

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johnnie

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Thu Mar-17-05 12:51 PM
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8. I guess

If my name really is..that little punk with the long hair.

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RubyDuby in GA

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Thu Mar-17-05 12:52 PM
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9. I had a college professor that didn't know mine

despite the fact that I took 6 classes from him. He always called me "History Major." Even funnier was that my name is the same as his wife's name. I don't think it would be hard to remember. :shrug:

He was an awesome teacher! Dr. Good (or as he would always say on the first day of a new class - "they call me Senor Bueno").

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KurtNYC

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Thu Mar-17-05 01:18 PM
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11. Had a boss who thought my name was "Bart"

It cracked me up when she did it so I never corrected her.

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terrya

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Thu Mar-17-05 01:21 PM
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12. Unfortunately, on occasion...yes, he does.

:cry:

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ucmike

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Thu Mar-17-05 01:30 PM
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13. my name is mike, i worked for a guy who called me mark

for 6 yrs of off/on employment with him. he knew my name, he just couldn't remeber it when we were face to face.

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mark414

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Thu Mar-17-05 06:04 PM
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26. my name's mark and people always call me mike!

that or matt

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aePrime

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Thu Mar-17-05 02:18 PM
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14. I had the opposite problem

I interned at a fairly small company last summer. Their interview process took all day, and I had to sit through interviews with most of the people in my department. However, I also interviewed with the president of the company.

When I would see him in the halls, he'd always greet me by name, and I could never remember his at all, first or last.

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SOteric

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Thu Mar-17-05 02:21 PM
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15. Oh heckyeah.

People whose names I've barely heard who outrank my boss have heard my name. It's a little intimidating sometimes.

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Modem Butterfly

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Thu Mar-17-05 02:36 PM
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17. Maybe that's a good thing...

It's the nail that sticks up that ends up getting hammered down.

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Dookus

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Thu Mar-17-05 02:36 PM
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18. Do you work for this guy?

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Susang

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Thu Mar-17-05 06:00 PM
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25. Give him a ponytail and put him on a Harley

And yes, I do. ;-)

We didn't have a Christmas party this year; instead he bought his wife a BMW SUV for their anniversary. At the same time, they laid off several long time employees. Nice, huh?

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Bok_Tukalo

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Thu Mar-17-05 02:37 PM
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19. My boss is also my best friend

It's like golden handcuffs.

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tjwmason

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Thu Mar-17-05 02:40 PM
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20. Yes, but he has an irritating habit with one of my office mates

She is called Ludmila, and seeking for an abreviation (we English are damn lazy when it comes to pronouncing foreign words) rather than ask her (there is a pretty standard short-form of Mira) he just took the first syllable.

The problem is that due to his accent he pronounces it as 'lewd'; which is rather a questionable way to refer to somebody else.

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redqueen

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Thu Mar-17-05 02:40 PM
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21. Yeah...

and no, that's definitely not normal.

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BikeWriter

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Thu Mar-17-05 02:45 PM
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23. LOL! The Executive VP of the Fortune 500 Company I retired from knew me.

As well as the Regional Drector of OSHA. ;-)

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