On Fri, January 20, 2012 8:08 pm, S. Dale Morrey wrote: >> I share an office with a coworker with the same first name as me, and >> that did confuse one HP reseller when we were both asking for quotes on >> different things at the same time. We ended up with each other's >> quotes. Other than that, we I haven't had a problem. >> >> Come to think of it, my department has a lot of problems related to >> similar names. I had an hard drive replacement coming for one of my >> arrays. It was shipped to my boss, but there are 3 people here with the >> exact same name; we'll call him John Doe. Our Shipping/Receiving people >> got confused and sent the disk to a John Doe in the carpenter shop, and >> it took a couple days to finally track the disk down. > > And this is the reason i go by Dale in proffesional settings but ask > friends to call me Steve :)
Where I work, we have a plethora of 'Dave's. There's three in the Dev/IT department alone. And I think at least two more outside our department. -- Matthew Walker HAM Call Sign: N7TOX Kydance Hosting & Consulting, Inc. - http://www.kydance.net/ PHP, Perl, and Web Development - Linux Server Administration /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
