As some of you may already know, I work as a substitute teacher for Columbus Public Schools.
This is a picture of me holding my ID badge.. The reason I look depressed and indignant is because they spelled my last name wrong. I finally decided to document my grievance publicly in the hopes that they’ll magically mail me another one.
Somehow I doubt it.
*UPDATE!*
I decided to call in and voice my opinion on this matter. Here’s some photographic proof of my dissatisfaction, for your pleasure.
You should kill yourself.
By: Lindsay on April 9, 2008
at 10:25 pm
Done and done.
By: themostbrianever on April 9, 2008
at 10:44 pm
My address is typed wrong on my driver’s license. Instead of “624″ my DL says “324″. Until recently this hasn’t been a big deal. The only time anyone appears to check these things is when I go to vote, and usually I just say, “Yeah, they typed it wrong,” and the kindly volunteers at the voting booth let me vote.
The Ohio Primary on March 4th? Big Deal. I thought the cops were going to be called in and that I was going to be strip searched. I might be an Impostor (even though I looked just like the Dick Cheney lookalike whose picture appears on my DL). I might be trying to Subvert The American Political Process! So after rummaging through my car and finding another piece of official looking paper that actually had my correct address (my car registration, I think), they let me vote.
But what a hassle. I have to make a separate trip to the BMV just because some underpaid, overworked clerk typed a “3″ instead of a “6.” When I go, I’ll try to adopt the same annoyed expression you have in your photos.
By: Andy Whitman on April 10, 2008
at 7:17 am
Haha.. Wow, Andy.
I’ve never really thought this misprint was a big deal until today.. One of the high schools in Columbus Public was locked down based on some potential danger and I’m sure they went through the building and made sure everyone who was there was supposed to be there.
If that ever happens at a place where I am, who knows if they’ll care/notice that my name is spelled wrong on my badge.. but if they do, it could turn into a situation like yours.
By: themostbrianever on April 10, 2008
at 9:58 am
You should consider living.
By: Lindsay on April 10, 2008
at 1:15 pm
Do it.
By: Lindsay on April 10, 2008
at 1:16 pm
Dear Andy (and Brian)-
Once upon a time the good old BMV actually spelled my name wrong on my license. For about two years I got by fine and dandy, but I figured it would be good to have it spelled right when I went overseas (kind of illogical). Well anyway, when I tried to explain to them that they had spelled it wrong and it was actually their error, they told me that I would still have to pay for the updated license.
So anyway, jokes that never get old. **turns on the tv and watches marge’s sisters on the simpsons**
By: peter elbow on April 11, 2008
at 12:52 pm
Haha.. they are the perfect BMV employees.
By: themostbrianever on April 11, 2008
at 12:54 pm
This happened to B recently. But in Indiana’s over-eagerness to cooperate with the Sturmabteilung…er…Department of Homeland Security, her having a non-hyphenated middle name (where her original middle name and her maiden name currently reside together in half-way-wedded bliss) caused (1) the BMV to drop one of her names entirely, and (2) then promptly to alert the DHS that she might be an (say it with me now) Illegal Alien.
We nearly had to pay several hundred dollars to hire a lawyer to represent us in court to have her name legally changed, after which we would pay several hundred more to post her legally changed name in local newspapers throughout the county to make sure no one challenged her assertion that this was indeed her name. By nearly, I mean B was at the counter at the Social Security office ready to fork over the moolah to begin this process that would take several months.
As one of the underpaid government employees went back to get the relevant paperwork, another one went over to the computer and noticed that the comma had been put in the wrong place four years ago when we exchanged our Ohio licenses for Indiana ones. With that official gesture, under 30 seconds in duration, this blessed bureaucrat saved us quite quantifiable grief. Talk about making the extraordinarily mundane into mundanely extraordinary. (I have no idea what that means.)
By: e on April 15, 2008
at 2:28 pm
Forging identity papers already. You are an enemy of the state in the making, agent.
By: Johnny B on August 20, 2008
at 7:50 pm