GIVE ME YOUR NAME!!!

[Kristev]

I'm not willing to give away my name to consumers, either. They could be crazy lunatics.

[EricKei]

I would never give more than just my first name (after all, if I am in a job where I have to wear a name badge, it shows anyway; in office jobs, I answer "TY for calling X, this is Eric..." yada).....But last name? Ha! No. Not happening. IF I'm feeling creative that day I might answer "Eric, Son of Jean Valjean, employee # 24601."

[XCashier]

But last name? Ha! No. Not happening. IF I'm feeling creative that day I might answer "Eric, Son of Jean Valjean, employee # 24601."

Or call yourself Eric Ramone. Or make up something silly, like Eric Schwartzenweissengruenenbraunenbluenberger (cookies to whomever can guess the reference!).

[dragon_wings]

When I started at <my drugstore> the receipts had our employee number (a 3 digit number corresponding to your department) and name. Shortly after management changed last July they dropped our names and just put our numbers. Which is nice when we have people trying to scam us: 'I was rung up by a young brunette woman an hour ago! She shorted me $20! Fix it now!' 'Sorry ma'am/sir I believe your mistaken. This receipt indicates you were rung up by one of our male employees. Would you like to leave while you still have *some* dignity?'

[Company_Slave]

Our registers print our first name on our receipts. This isn't a huge issue as a) customers are morons, b) our registers don't print receipts on cash transactions unless requested, and c) in my store a good 75% of us go by a middle name or nickname and our registers print our legal first name.
We do, however, have to wear name badges. But our company's policy is that if a customer (especially an irate one) requests our name, we give them the first and (on the rare occasion that a store of 10 employees or less has two people with the same name) either a last initial or an identifying feature. Example: if there were another girl named Slave at my store, I could tell them "Slave with glasses" or "Slave with brown hair" or "Slave that's like 6 freaking feet tall."
I have never, in any of my jobs, released my last name to a customer. An employer would never make me. I will gladly rattle off an employee number, but you will NOT have my last name.

[manybellsdown]

RW: *Deeeeeeeeeeeep breath* Princess Angelina Contessa Louisa Francesca Banana Fanna Bo Besca the Third Warner and you may NOT call me Dottie!

*Whew!*

Tikki Tikki Tembo No-Sa-Rembo Chari-Bari-Ruchi Pip-Peri-Pembo!

[PepperElf]

Well I can understand leaving to change his child's diaper, for a couple of reasons... The child may be more comfortable in a familiar area, plus... if he's an older child it may cause less embarrassment for him.

But yes... whenever anyone demands a full name, especially when angry... makes me wonder if they plan retribution. that, and i'm not a very trusting person when it comes to data like that.

[auntiem]

When I worked at an adult toy store we had to pick our own fake names - most of us chose one that at least had the beginning sounds of our real name - so we would actually respond. It was funny everytime we had a new employee because it would take awhile for them to respond to their fake name.

One tour company had their staff use fake names and that made me sad when I found out because this was a company that only had to deal with travel agents, not random customers and I would have thought that the people of my profession wouldn't be SC (having to deal with it themselves) but sadly he was wrong.

OP - what makes me even more mad about that SC Dad was that he didn't even notice that you were a different person than he had passed 5 time before! It would have take 5 seconds to realize a shift change and re-establish permission.

[vikingchyk]

"I am Spartacus." It is even more epic if your coworkers start saying it one after another after you say that.

"I'm Brian, and so's my wife!"

[telecom_goddess]

RW: *Deeeeeeeeeeeep breath* Princess Angelina Contessa Louisa Francesca Banana Fanna Bo Besca the Third Warner and you may NOT call me Dottie!

*Whew!*

That's just awesome......I love it.