Ok, I answered an ad in Craigslist a few nights ago regarding a customer service position. It turns out that it’s basically a work-from-home sales position — thanks, but no thanks.
What really chapped my hide was that in every correspondence with this person, she spelled my name wrong. EVERY TIME! Considering that I sign my name at the end of every email, AND it’s on my resume, AND it is listed in the “From” field in the headers of every single email I send out, HOW fucking hard can it be to take the extra one second of effort and spell it correctly!?!?!?
That’s most probably my biggest pet peeve, and is THE quickest way to turn me off to something.
DSB
That would tick me off, too. Mistakes happen sometimes, but not continually.
Nicki
Well, once or twice I can forgive … but she emailed me at least 6 times. :???:
DualDenz
lol, i know the feeling!
My name is Danny, which would be no problem living in *any* english speaking country, but alas, i don’t live in one…..
i’ve been called Dennie, Denny, Benny, Barry, floyd (no wait, that’s a nickname)….
annoying as hell, i have a very clear signature at the end of my emails, it shows my name there, so it’s not brainsurgeory to get my damn name right!
Nicki
It’s funny, when I worked for one of my previous employer, a new VIP came on board over all of the developers about a year or so before I left the company. This guy and I *never* got along for various reasons. He decided that it would be a good idea to require all of us to read Dale Carnegie’s How to Win Friends and Influence People — I shit you not, we had a meeting each week to discuss what we’d read so far in the book. :roll:
Anyways, what got me about this guy was that I noticed that there were so many things that he did on a daily basis that the book advised NOT to do! For instance, for the first 6 months that he was there, he kept calling me ‘Natalie’. After a while I just got tired of correcting him. One day he sat in a training session I did and afterwards made a smart remark that I really took offense to. Without a word, I walked off while he was in mid-sentence and he says to one of my co-workers, “I don’t think Natalie likes me very much.” To which she replied, “Maybe that’s because her name is NICKI!”
ROFL!