I found someone in our user database with the name “Deekshita Anusri”. I then imagined the poor soul at the border who had to read that name in front of the person named so.

I’d love to hear some stories about times something like this actually happened.

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    Dikshit is a name you have to get used to saying with a straight face if you work with a bunch of Indians.

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      A talk show host in my country failed to keep a straight face over the name and lost his job. It’s okay though, we don’t miss him.

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    First day in the dorms at college I see a name tag next to a door that says “Shithead” and thought what a mean joke to play! Turns out her name was shi-thee-ad. Rest of the year she was Thea.

    Also worked with a woman named “Noname” (no-nam-ay) and apparently that gave her all sorts of trouble on official forms.

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    If my old coworkers find my account, oh well. I work in software engineering. At my old job I found an employee named “The Angel of Ephesus”. No joke. His legal last name was “Ephesus”, first name “The Angel Of”. Dude had lots of paranoid postings all over the Internet. Glad he didn’t live near me, and I had no reason to ever interact with him.

    The only reason I found him was because we had an issue syncing employee names after a name change was completed in the HR system. We had to do a one time update after we fixed the bug.

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    My mum was a receptionists at a doctors office and she once met a guy called “Reiner Essig”, which in German means “pure vinegar”.

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    Not a customs officer, but over a decade back I had job duties that involved posting photos of babies online. The parents would give their consent, maternity would snap the photos, and I’d put them on the website (complete with the option to order prints).

    One of the babies was named “Secret Angel.” First name Secret, middle name Angel. That girl would likely be in her teens or early twenties by now. I still sometimes wonder if Secret had any trouble with her name given how much kids can bully other kids for the slightest thing.

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      I can only imagine their last name. And what did the parents call her by if they got mad ? Something like … „Secret angel Patterson, come here right now“.

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    There’s a very common last name from Spain that is slang on my country for “cunt”.

    Had to call an old lady and say hello miss **** back in my call center days.

    Everyone who heard me on the floor laughed their asses off

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    I had a job where I had to say customer’s names. Usually first name was fine, but maybe 1% of people hated it when you called them by it without asking, and some even hated being asked.

    So last name it was.

    Everything was fine.

    … until Mr. Butt showed up.

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    My peer at my last shop, named

    Trust Unworried.

    He didn’t work in network security, though. Neither did my Spanish friend whose hyphenated name meant “good walls”.