Well at work I have told you about Meat, he has done some dumb stuff lately, but let me introduce you to my main boss.. we will call him J.. anywho.. he has a hard time reading initials on paperwork around the well lots. An idea popped into his head to make us right our first name on everything.. simple requests become a pain in the arse at times when you working around grown children.
one of the guys at work we will call D (goes by middle name) and has been called that his whole life. We blame his parents. Anywho his first name is Michael, and so he started to use his first name on all the paperwork.. on day 18 of doing so, D gets a call when we were at lunch. J first asked him why he was writing Michael on everything. D said it was because it was his first name. J got really pissed about it, and hung up the phone. At that point you have 7 grown kids all laughing about the situation. D said it said first name, all credit cards, passport, says Michael.
After lunch D’s phone is blowing up with texts. I’m trying to drive and laugh at the same time… J is now changing all the programs with his name in them from D to Michael ( everything where his name is) also put an emergency contact form on his desk to refill our, called HR and made them do a name change, all this over a first name. D has worked for the company for over 15 years now and not once has anyone cared about someone going by a middle name.
Today D got called into J’s office and was basically yelled at about the situation, and how this affected important operations. Honestly J spent a good 6 hours on this project changing everything and it all came down to HR today, saying how ridiculous this was, and just make him go back to signing his name as D. HR refused to issue him a new ID badge with his first name on it.
if nothing else, 11 of us got a damn good laugh out of all this since Friday.