Customs Officers: Have you ever laughed out loud when someone gave you their passport and they had an… unusual name?
I found someone in our user database with the name “Deekshita Anusri”. I then imagined the poor soul at the border who had to read that name in front of the person named so.
I’d love to hear some stories about times something like this actually happened.
Dikshit is a name you have to get used to saying with a straight face if you work with a bunch of Indians.
Is it pronounced the way it looks?
A talk show host in my country failed to keep a straight face over the name and lost his job. It's okay though, we don't miss him.
First day in the dorms at college I see a name tag next to a door that says “Shithead” and thought what a mean joke to play! Turns out her name was shi-thee-ad. Rest of the year she was Thea.
Also worked with a woman named “Noname” (no-nam-ay) and apparently that gave her all sorts of trouble on official forms.
Could she do a Black flip tho
Of all the videos I've ever seen, that was definitely one of them.
I only like anal ;)
I have no idea what I just watched, but I would date her.
Na-a.
That's the made up kevinist name my friend's mom had to deal with.
It's pronounced similarly to 'Natasha'.
There are people with the last name Null and they tend to have issues with poorly written applications too.
I heard about a guy who got a custom license plate of "NULL" and he ended up getting assigned a ton of parking/speeding tickets for every case where the ANPR system failed to read the plates.
Seeing an identification card that explicitly lists someone's race makes me real fuckin uncomfortable. Is this a thing in Singapore?
In Singapore, minimum wage is based on your race (country of origin). For a domestic worker, they literally tell you to pay some people less money.
"Race" and "country of origin" are different things though
It's a thing in so many countries, that and religion
I don't know if mine is still on my ID, but I know it used to be. I'm in Europe.
How do you not know?
I don't tend to look at my ID daily since I have a drivers' license. And my wallet is in the other room.
Oh I see.
If my old coworkers find my account, oh well. I work in software engineering. At my old job I found an employee named "The Angel of Ephesus". No joke. His legal last name was "Ephesus", first name "The Angel Of". Dude had lots of paranoid postings all over the Internet. Glad he didn't live near me, and I had no reason to ever interact with him.
The only reason I found him was because we had an issue syncing employee names after a name change was completed in the HR system. We had to do a one time update after we fixed the bug.
My mum was a receptionists at a doctors office and she once met a guy called "Reiner Essig", which in German means "pure vinegar".
You think it was a concidence? Was he cool with fries?
I work in healthcare. We have a Dr Blood, Dr Bones and Dr Slaughter. Perfect supervillain team right there.
They should band together and start their own medical corporation
There's a very common last name from Spain that is slang on my country for "cunt".
Had to call an old lady and say hello miss **** back in my call center days.
Everyone who heard me on the floor laughed their asses off
Why did you censor the other word, but not "cunt?"
Because that's not a naughty word where he lives.
As the Aussies would say, he's a right good Cunny
Protecting the ladies identity.
Heaven forbid we know a common name.
Reminds me of the people that asked for advice on location specific things, and don't want to say what country they in because it might dox them.
btw, i'm living on earth.
Aha! Now I got you! I'm sending a Swat team there this very instant!
It's concha Right?
Not a customs officer, but over a decade back I had job duties that involved posting photos of babies online. The parents would give their consent, maternity would snap the photos, and I'd put them on the website (complete with the option to order prints).
One of the babies was named "Secret Angel." First name Secret, middle name Angel. That girl would likely be in her teens or early twenties by now. I still sometimes wonder if Secret had any trouble with her name given how much kids can bully other kids for the slightest thing.
I can only imagine their last name. And what did the parents call her by if they got mad ? Something like … „Secret angel Patterson, come here right now“.
That sounds like the parents thought they were naming a video game character.
I had a job where I had to say customer's names. Usually first name was fine, but maybe 1% of people hated it when you called them by it without asking, and some even hated being asked.
So last name it was.
Everything was fine.
... until Mr. Butt showed up.
My peer at my last shop, named
Trust Unworried.
He didn't work in network security, though. Neither did my Spanish friend whose hyphenated name meant "good walls".
Shadynasty's
Shady Nasty's?
He's outta heer
“Shitto” is a real name in Zimbabwe.