Comments on: first names are sacred http://www.matusiak.eu/numerodix/blog/index.php/2006/12/11/first-names-are-sacred/ A blog about nothing Tue, 27 Jul 2010 20:41:20 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Boyo http://www.matusiak.eu/numerodix/blog/index.php/2006/12/11/first-names-are-sacred/#comment-4528 Boyo Tue, 19 Dec 2006 21:13:22 +0000 http://www.matusiak.eu/numerodix/blog/index.php/2006/12/11/first-names-are-sacred/#comment-4528 I've had the same problem with my bank's credit card once. When I applied for it, I gave them my full name and that's how it appeared on the card, with both my first and last name. Then after some internal reorganization, they seemingly changed their policy and my first name was abbreviated to just an initial. I found this quite distressing, and complained to my local bank office. Being the large organization it is, I got rerouted to several other employees all over the country, before I finally got the right person to help me out. After much discussion, I got them to change my card so that it also included my first name as well. I think I'm a minority in that regard, as I've never seen anyone else with a credit card that has their first name on it as well. Indeed there seems to be some sort of first name fetish in this country that prevents it from being made available. But the moral of this story is, that if you insist on institutions using your first name - as with getting anything else done here - complain, complain and complain again. I’ve had the same problem with my bank’s credit card once. When I applied for it, I gave them my full name and that’s how it appeared on the card, with both my first and last name. Then after some internal reorganization, they seemingly changed their policy and my first name was abbreviated to just an initial. I found this quite distressing, and complained to my local bank office. Being the large organization it is, I got rerouted to several other employees all over the country, before I finally got the right person to help me out. After much discussion, I got them to change my card so that it also included my first name as well. I think I’m a minority in that regard, as I’ve never seen anyone else with a credit card that has their first name on it as well. Indeed there seems to be some sort of first name fetish in this country that prevents it from being made available. But the moral of this story is, that if you insist on institutions using your first name – as with getting anything else done here – complain, complain and complain again.

]]> By: john (mikhail) http://www.matusiak.eu/numerodix/blog/index.php/2006/12/11/first-names-are-sacred/#comment-4155 john (mikhail) Mon, 11 Dec 2006 20:39:24 +0000 http://www.matusiak.eu/numerodix/blog/index.php/2006/12/11/first-names-are-sacred/#comment-4155 Maybe they're just refusing to rule out a little cross dressing on your behalf Erik. ;) Maybe they’re just refusing to rule out a little cross dressing on your behalf Erik. ;)

]]> By: erik http://www.matusiak.eu/numerodix/blog/index.php/2006/12/11/first-names-are-sacred/#comment-4148 erik Mon, 11 Dec 2006 09:41:24 +0000 http://www.matusiak.eu/numerodix/blog/index.php/2006/12/11/first-names-are-sacred/#comment-4148 This online clothes shop I'm a client of doesn't want to know my first name either, but most surprisingly they don't even want to know my sex. Which I find a little odd, I mean, it seems to me that's a pretty vital piece of knowledge so far as marketing is concerned. And so they keep sending me e-mails with offers for women's clothes as well as men's clothes. It's a little insulting. This online clothes shop I’m a client of doesn’t want to know my first name either, but most surprisingly they don’t even want to know my sex. Which I find a little odd, I mean, it seems to me that’s a pretty vital piece of knowledge so far as marketing is concerned.

And so they keep sending me e-mails with offers for women’s clothes as well as men’s clothes. It’s a little insulting.

]]> By: Jack http://www.matusiak.eu/numerodix/blog/index.php/2006/12/11/first-names-are-sacred/#comment-4140 Jack Mon, 11 Dec 2006 00:02:43 +0000 http://www.matusiak.eu/numerodix/blog/index.php/2006/12/11/first-names-are-sacred/#comment-4140 Do they have a number? Do they have a number?

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