Unfortunate names of colleagues 
Asturias Es Mi… 14 Oct 21 10:59
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Uncontrolled guffaw the first time I came across a colleague with the surname Onan

Too many to mention, but I especially struggled with the pronunciation of a lawyer at a hyper-PC government department whose surname was "Kunz".

(Even going the route of a sort of Northern pronunciation felt naughty.)

Candida Beaver.

Ken w**k. (That one was the most embarrassing, because first time I saw his name, it was handwritten, and the "n" could have been an "r", and I was relieved in my certainty that his name was actually Wark, and not w**k, cos noone is actually called w**k, obvs!  I replied to him as Mr Wark, and he replied with his name was capitalised, he was definitely a w**k.  He never actually said anything to correct my mistake, thank goodness, I don't think I would have survived that exchange).

Anal Grief.

True story. Lead to someone in an American office shouting "Anal Grief! I'm looking for Anal Grief!" when he received a phone call meant for Mr Grief.

 

Also, I encountered a Claimant's solicitor once whose name was, like David Ogwang (I think it was david. Might be wrong)

His firm email policy was first initial, surname.

So he revelled in the address: "dogwang@" claimant firm.

I'm not saying which firm.

Back in day we had a Catering Assistant who did the teas and coffees for client meetings. His name was Jesus. You can imagine the perennial laughs when the following email was sent, "Jesus will unavailable over Easter."

I'm (possibly unreliably) informed that Nick Azis had to be given a one off deviation from McDermotts "first initial no punctuation last name" email address format.

Earlier today I was sent a deck of sales sh1te which I'm meant to turn into a contract.  One of the guys on our team is apparently called George Nazi.

No word of a lie.

What's next? Bob Paedophile?

They don’t even have to be a forrin to have an epic name.

I went to an all girls school - we were all repressed - with the following staff members:

Richard Warmer

Ms Dick

Mrs Seaman

Senora Foubister (she was a forrin obvs). 

 

 

One of my warships was blessed with a seaman whose surname was the same as a town in Essex.

Seaman Staines quickly became tired of being sent to the bedding store on the main broadcast.

working on shipping contracts with Norwegians id good for this one, I have been introduced to:

Bendt Øve

Simen (pronounced Semen, try to keep a straight face during meeting introductions)

Odd Reidar 

Mr Soraas.