Well, coming from someone whose name is specifically unusual, I’d be a bit put out if somebody spelled me Pythian Habanero… I know that’s how the pepper is supposed to be spelled, but mine is from somewhere else. So it seems to me that correcting their unobservantness wouldn’t be terribly rude of you.
I’ve never heard of a book called Dolores Claiborne. What’s it about?
It’s about a woman who finds out
that her husband is abusing their daughter. She decides to leave him, goes to the bank and finds out that he stole money that she had worked for (as a maid for a real bitch) that was earmarked for her children’s college.
The story is told in Dolores’ words, as she’s being interrogated by the police. I mean to say that you only hear her responses, and not his questions, kind of like a narrative. It’s a cool way to read a book. I highly recommend it. And the book is much better than the movie (of course.)
Neat!
At one point in this thread, I pointed it out - people really are spectacularly unobservant.
I’m sorry for miswriting your name.
That’s okay!
I have no life. 
I actually counted names to see who spelled it right or not, and 16 spelled it right, 9 spelled it wrong.
I think also, people would quote someone who mispelled it, and it would go to the next page, and, well, the domino effect.
Right.
See, here’s what was going through my mind when I quite carefully misspelled your name. You see, both “Dolores” and “Delores” are common enough spellings of the name in the United States. But “Dolores” is the spelling in Spanish, and I’ve always assumed that “Delores” was just an American variation. I’ve always preferred the “Dolores” spelling.
So when a bunch of people were spelling your name “Delores” - that is, using what I sort of mentally consider the “wrong” spelling, it specifically stuck out to me, and I used it thinking you spelled it that way.
I very carefully considered the matter, you see. My misspelling in this instance was the result of quite carefully trying to spell it right, but I was corrupted by the influence of all the misspellings around me.
Incidentally, you wouldn’t believe how many people can’t spell my name . . .
Even at sword’s point?
I remember seeing somebody call you something as atrocious as “Exalcivar” or something. Repeatedly and consistently. I forget what thread it was in but I very clearly recall my deep desire to shriek and pull my hair out once I figured out who this Exalcivar person was. (Flagrant misspellings annoy me. Typos, fine… consistent errors tweak my antlers.)
Most everything’s been said here, but I wanted to chime in as someone who often finds himself odd-man-out, socially.
I’m glad you took King of Soup’s post to heart, Delores, because you and your coworkers really were being unnecessarily cruel to him. As has been repeated many times, his behavior has not always been appropriate. But your social discomfort with him is something YOU need to deal with; you can’t put it off on him. It’s not junior high out there; we can’t always exclude the uncool kids from our table anymore.
The logical extreme of your prioritizing your discomfort over his presence would be the suggestion that socially awkward people should be considered totally unemployable. You’d be more comfortable if he weren’t around. But I’m sure you can see that that’s pretty selfish of you.
It’s DOlores!!!
(I get you…)
It probably wasn’t, but it almost looked like that post was just to tweak you. 
Jim
“Logical extremes” aside (didn’t those used to be called ridiculous exaggerations?), why not? I may be a cruel, callous person. But while I’ll be perfectly civil and cordial to anyone, I’m not going out of my way to make friends with people who are uncomfortable to be around. It’s not as though being socially awkward is a physical deformity - it can be fixed with some work. And in my opinion, if you’re completely socially inept, you should probably do that work. And I suspect a lot of the socially inept have enough dignity that they don’t really want pity friendships anyway.
Maybe people shun you because you get their names wrong.
If I’m ever looking for a job, Brainiac4, can I come work for you?
I have zero interest in being management or in a supervisory position. I absolutely don’t want the responsibility - I have enough of that in my current administrative assistant position. I’d rather being the person making sure that the person with the responsibility has all the information they need, and that their schedule is up-to-date so no conflicts occur, so that their job can run smoothly.