My workplace lists internal email addresses in Outlook surname first, so I am Kennedy Lucy TEAM NAME. This sucks for people whose surname is a common first name, e.g. Graham or James. We had a series of complaints on the internal letters page about this a while back, and proposals to form a club of people misnamed all the time.
I'm now checking email for a colleague who has moved to a different role, who keeps getting addressed as Mark although his surname is actually Marks and his first name is entirely different. It's not like people don't KNOW the surname is listed first! I do think people don't read properly a lot of the time.
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Date: 2013-09-08 02:41 pm (UTC)I'm now checking email for a colleague who has moved to a different role, who keeps getting addressed as Mark although his surname is actually Marks and his first name is entirely different. It's not like people don't KNOW the surname is listed first! I do think people don't read properly a lot of the time.