On Fri, 8 Jun 2012, DanyJ <dan062@yahoo.com.au> wrote:
I once was in a temporary position (for about 3 weeks) where the staff member in charge and to whom I was accountable to could just not get the spelling of my surname right - on 3 separate occasions he had to write my name down he spelt it in 3 different ways, all wrong.
I've had the same thing on many occasions with people who don't have a significant enough cultural difference to have an excuse. When I first started working for Shell in the Netherlands they managed to do a double spelling error on my name. Not bad considering that almost everyone in .nl (and EVERYONE in a major corporation) speaks English really well and that Dutch is probably the closest language to English in many ways (much closer than German or French and I'm not aware of any other competition in this regard). I blame dyslexia and sloth for such things. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/