Why would refer to person as "B"?

[shootingstar]

I'm a little puzzled.  THere will be a new employee joining another team. Not ours. But our team does interface often with other work group which has their own supervisor.

She's introduced the person as Brittany in an email announcement.  But she keeps referring to new employee as "B."   Is this a transgender identifier or ?  For sure, I don't perceive it as gay orientation because already we have a number of gay employees across the entire corporation, were a few have self-identified willingly in job profiles, etc.  

[Ralphie ★]

Hmm-the cats in the hats were named a-z. Little cat z was the cutest.

[groupw]

Maybe it’s a preference of the new person. I have a good friend named Zahreen. She goes by Zee simply because she hates when people mispronounce her name. 
The wife of an old friend goes by “Q”. Her first name is very common among our age. She uses the first letter of her maiden name to differentiate. 
Brittany is a common enough name that may be how she separates herself from the crowd. 

[JerrySTL ★]

"A" was already taken?

[bikeman564™]

Two friends of mine who I ride with, refer to me as B, in lieu of Brian They'll be like "Hey B". In a company, or professional setting it makes no sense IMO.

[Longjohn ★]

Sherif Taylor had an aunt B. I think he said it Ain’t B.

[bikeman564™]

1 hour ago, groupw said:

Maybe it’s a preference of the new person. I have a good friend named Zahreen. She goes by Zee simply because she hates when people mispronounce her name. 
The wife of an old friend goes by “Q”. Her first name is very common among our age. She uses the first letter of her maiden name to differentiate. 
Brittany is a common enough name that may be how she separates herself from the crowd. 

I had a teacher in HS that went by the name Ms. G. Because her last name was long or difficult to pronounce.

 

[Mr. Beanz]

Fonzie referred to Mr. Cunningham as Mr. C.

I don't think it had anything to do with Mr. Cunningham being a homo. 🙄

 

[Prophet Zacharia]

Maybe she’s a real B once you get to know her.

[jsharr ★]

Ask TK.  Right @Thaddeus Kosciuszko

[shootingstar]

Honest, in my world Brittany is not that common as a woman's name.  All I have to do is check the employee directory for over 12,000 employees for my own organization.

Anyway, whatever.  

[shootingstar]

My English name is very plain, boomerish era and not common. I suppose I could notch it up by asking people to call me "J". Which to me, is a bit strange...because I own a beautiful Chinese name in Chinese with a lovely meaning. Translates as "Precious" or "Highly Treasured".  So to have that type of English nickname to me, is nearly laughable.

[jsharr ★]

J in Jsharr is short for my name 

[jdc2000]

[Zephyr]

Most people only know me by a letter, and it is not the letter that my name starts with.

[Longjohn ★]

9 hours ago, shootingstar said:

Honest, in my world Brittany is not that common as a woman's name. 

When my wife and I got our first computer that was on the web we shared it. It was on dialup. Everything was new to us. I was on yahoo and downloaded yahoo messenger. I hadn’t used it for anything yet but some of my kids were on yahoo and I thought I might use it to message them. I went to work one night and when I got home my wife wanted to know who Brittany with no panties on is. She has been messaging you. I decided I didn’t really need yahoo messenger and deleted it. Yahoo has had a history of not being able to control their spam-bots.