• @[email protected]
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    9610 days ago

    I sent emails for 8 months to a person named Chris that started “Hi Chairs,” and they never noticed.

    • TJA!
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      10210 days ago

      Maybe they were just too polite to mention it.

      • @[email protected]
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        3910 days ago

        I think it’s a good instinct to assume the best of people but let me assure you there is nothing polite about Chairs.

      • @danc4498
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        1410 days ago

        If it were me, I’d give a chuckle every time I saw it.

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        I had a job for about a year, where among other things I was making the requests to our physical document storage supplier. They are amazingly incompetent. And one thing they did is, early on, they were calling me David, while my first name is Daniel. I didn’t say anything, wanting to note how long before they’d realize their mistake. They never did.

        Of course, my name is the signature of all my emails.

        • Echo Dot
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          410 days ago

          People frequently misspell my name. Even though they’ve just had to correctly spell my name to get the email to me in the first place. Is it not even an uncommon name, it’s like being unable to spell Paul.

      • @Bearlydave
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        110 days ago

        Damn Canadians!

        Source: I’m Canadian.

    • @[email protected]
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      4410 days ago

      I have a chain of email with mechanical engineers, subject: “welded butt plug”

      We’re talking about a butt welded plug. At this point I think nobody wants to be the one to change the subject.

      • @[email protected]
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        310 days ago

        When I change a subject I always put (was: old subject)

        I would hope any who change that subject to follow that style

      • @gibmiser
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        1710 days ago

        He’d sit down and take it though

    • @[email protected]
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      210 days ago

      I did the same - my bosses first name is Dean. There were many emails starting with “Hi Dead”