• bizarroland
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    181 month ago

    The only people who have my name are:

    1: A crackpot free energy antigravity mad scientist/inventor 2: A football player 3: The worst IT technician in the state of Texas

    At various times in my life I have been mistaken for 1 and 3.

    I was invited to (and attended) the LENREW conference in Maryland as a teenager thanks to #1, and I lost out on several pay raises and promotions (and was asked to, on my own time and dime, to drive several thousand miles round trip to Texas to pick up a mis-shipped laptop, which I declined to do) thanks to #3.

    • @Donkter
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      131 month ago

      I’ve got a small time lawyer in Florida. It’s nice because it overshadows anything I’ve got on the web for the most part but innocuous enough that there’s no crossed traffic or anything.

      • @jqubed
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        51 month ago

        From the Google alert I have on my name I see some small time politicians but then one guy who’s been CEO at several major Fortune 500 companies. Once when I was unemployed and saw he was starting at CEO at a different company I thought it would be funny to show up the same day and see if I could get a job out of it.

        • @Donkter
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          230 days ago

          If you were unscrupulous you might be able to contact him and have him route payments or something under your name to avoid taxes for a fee on your end.

          I’m not sure how the scam might work exactly but you could probably net some dough. At the risk of federal jail time of course.

    • @TexasDrunk
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      61 month ago

      3: The worst IT technician in the state of Texas

      Come on, I’m not quite that bad.