the other day when i was at the office, i got mistaken for someone else.
twice.
in the span of two minutes.
oh, this is funny, right? ho ho ho, what a coincidence. maybe you think so, unless you’re a minority and you get mistaken for someone else because you’re a minority. in that case, how is that funny? oh, ho, that’s funny! it’s just racism again. we all look alike! or it’s just insensitivity! ha ha, we love that too!
i don’t know what was worse: the first one time where he realized it right away and corrected himself and apologized, and but then brought up the infamous time where i was mistaken for someone else in the same way at a huge regional meeting, where i left the room because of it.
or the second time where the other guy mistook me for the same person, but i just ignored it. instead of stopping, and saying, “excuse me? did you call me brian? i’m not brian.”
maybe i’m just extra irritated at this because i let it pass. i’m not sure why i’m more likely to do ths in a work situation. i guess you don’t want to rock the boat or be seen as a troublemaker, but isn’t that playing into the fucking stereotype? is it too hard to ask to be recognized as yourself and not someone who has the same vague genetic makeup but looks nothing like you? someone who doesn’t even do the same job as you? someone who wasn’t SE of the year two years ago? are you kidding me?
motherfucker.
for the record, my name is not brian. i don’t look anything like brian. and if this is the year to fuck shit up, i’m not going to just shrug this shit off anymore.
unless you’re my yoga teacher, that is.
Posted at January 26, 2005 10:12 AMreminds me of that episode of the office that we watched at rlv’s last week. wince.
Posted by: mac at January 26, 2005 10:42 AMlet me do my ali g impression. oh, wait…
Posted by: e at January 26, 2005 10:57 AMc’mon brian. just take a deep breath. i mean ed! sorry! ed! just take a deep breath.
sorry. all you blogs look alike to me.
Posted by: xz at January 26, 2005 11:23 AMuh…er…apparently i slept through that episode of the office, but how could anyone mistake you for another?!?
you are the one and only ed! don’t they see you are unique and special? they are blind, i say, blind! and they suck on top of that.
and if they continue to f with you, send them my way and i will make them my beeatch(s).
by the way, this new angry ed is quite entertaining (except when said anger is directed at me, of course.) ;)
Posted by: rlv at January 26, 2005 4:05 PMto be technically acurate, rlv *snored* through that episode of the office.
Posted by: mac at January 26, 2005 4:32 PMif i had a nickel for every time some moron has called me “jorge”…
Posted by: Javi at January 27, 2005 8:27 AMComments are now closed for this entry. Thank you for playing.