NWR: Calling someone the wrong name on purpose?

My boss does that constantly to our clients... I'm surprised half of them don't fire us over it because you can tell they get annoyed at having to correct him and then he just doesn't care. For example- we have a client named "Justine" but he keeps calling her "Justin" ... clearly she is a WOMAN not a man! Ughh soo annoying!!

I have a difficult to pronounce first name. When people (whom I have told the correct pronunciation to), say it wrong, I do one of 2 things:

1. If it's someone I like and can joke with, I say "what did you call me?" With 'THAT' look on my face.

2. If it's anyone else, I ignore them until they say it correctly. And if they say something like "didn't you hear me calling you?" "No, I heard you call for an Alaina. Since that's not my name, I didn't respond to it". Usually stops them from doing it again.

If I may ask, what is he calling you? I'm just curious.

See, I'm not so nice....I would just call him "Dickhead". " Good morning Dickhead, have a nice day!".....Then when he confronts you on it, just say "Oh, that's what everyone else calls you when your not around, I thought it was your name!! LOL

......kidding! Don't get yourself fired, but come on!..That's funny stuff right there

If you haven't called him out on it, you have no right to go to HR. You need to tell him you dislike it and ask him to please call you by your right name if it bothers you and if he continues, THEN you can complain because unless you've asked him to stop, it's not really harrassment, it's just him thinking he's funny. This is, of course, assuming he's not calling you a name that is innappropriate or demeaning.. but if your name is Lisa and he's calling you Leann, you just need to speak up.

I had a teacher purposely mispronounce my name after I corrected her time and time again. I think it was just because I once corrected her when she mispronounced silhouette (she was an English teacher she should have known that) but if it is just a coworker I would suggest calling him out on it and asking him why.

Or try a less confrontational, but still 'let's get this out in the open, "Hey, I notice you have trouble remembering my name? Is there anything I can do to help?"