There's no such thing as common sense - But this makes no sense at all, Episode II

There are times where I just have to admit that I'm not that bright. I should know full well when I should walk away. However, sometimes I just can't. I've just been told I don't know how to spell my name. I know I should cut my loses and run, but I can't.  I just have to respond.

So this woman that sent the email to the wrong person asked how she was supposed to know how to spell my name. My immediate response was, “Well, we have been working together for over 8 years, I thought you knew who I am.” The response I got back was, “Yes, but I (this woman) can’t be expected to know how to spell everyone’s name” Now my name is not that tricky to spell. There are really only two ways spell it. One way has two e’s the other doesn’t. Not to mention, there are only two of us in the whole company. The other guy has the extra e, but he works in Texas. Again the question is asked about how this person should know who is who.

I think most people would have bailed on the discussion. Not me, I just have to keep going. My response is,” well you could look at where we work.” The email directory includes not only the email address, but also the phone number and office address. My comment leads to a discussion about how to determine where people work. I kid you not, an argument is made that this woman is so busy that she cannot take the time to expand the email window large enough so that it shows more of the address record. It takes too long and she is too busy. Again, a normal person would have bailed on this discussion, but not me. So I argued a little bit about the effort required to expand the window. You grab the corner of the window and stretch it. But noooooo, that’s too much work for a busy person. This woman can’t stretch the window for every email she sends. Think of all the time it will take.

When it finally dawns on me that I am losing this argument, I change tactics. I responded that she could always just look at the phone number. That was a big mistake on my part. I’m now embroiled in an argument about having to know everyone’s phone number. Now I’m a logical guy. I assume people are as logical as I. I next pointed out that the office we work for has an exchange of 781 and the exchange for Texas is 210. That should be a good indicator. We then had an argument about the requirement to know all the exchanges across the country. This woman asked how she were supposed to know which exchange was which. To which I responded that she worked out of the main office, she ought to know her own office number. I went on to say that she only need know the exchange for the office she was in because; I worked in the same office. Process of elimination should exclude everyone else. To which this woman responded, not everyone works out of this office. To which I responded that both she and I did. To which she responded, “But Harry doesn’t”.

I finally gave up The long and short of it is, I wasn’t getting emails because I spell my name wrong, it’s too much trouble to look up who/where people are, and Harry doesn’t work in Canton.