Lately, I have been noticing when people call me the wrong name. This isn't new, but it's starting to irritate me. Especially when I politely correct them, and they still get it wrong. I mean, up to dozens of times-if not more. Currently, at one of the facilities I work at, there's me-Elisa-then there's two Elsa's. For some reason, I keep getting called Elsa, even though I look completely different than the Elsa's, am much newer, and have a different name. Granted, it is similar, but even when they know that my name is Elisa, they pronounce it totally wrong. After multiple corrections. And it's not the fact that they pronounce it wrong that annoys me, but the fact that after I politely correct them, they wave a hand and say something to the effect of, "Oh I'm never gonna get that right." As if I should feel guilty for having a different name. And not even that different of a name. It's not like it's Shaniqua, or Hui Liu, or Vladlena or something totally foreign (literally).Anyway, it's a constant irritation, and something that I will be forever stuck with unless I put an 'A' in front of my name or add another 's'. Bah!!
