My job allows me to talk to smart, talented, amazing, hardworking people. It is a great way to network and is so rewarding. And then there are the people who are rude and ignorant who make me hate not only this job but humanity in general. I just talked to a man in the later category. I answered the phone, thanked him for calling and told him what my name was: Star.
Well this did not make this caveman very happy and he proceeded to tell me how unprofessional my name was and how I should have told him my name was Janice. Yes, Janice. Meanwhile. this man didn’t give me his name, account number or any identifying information. I politely told him that my given name was hard to pronounce so everyone called me Star. I asked him if he would like to know my real name, he declined to know. He continued to rant about how unprofessional my name was and how it sounded like I should have been hanging out and friends with Candy. Then he informed me, very rudely, that he was going to hang up and call back.
Now, in his defense, this was not the first time that someone had ever asked about my name. I’ve gotten, “Is that your real name?”, “Is that your stage name?” and so on. But never had anyone ever been so rude about it.
I was upset about it the rest of the day despite my co-workers bashing his ignorance. But that’s just what he is: ignorant. Tomorrow is a new day and I will not let him ruin that.
xoxo