re: What do you do when people call you by the wrong name?

People have been pronouncing my last name with an R in the middle my entire life. There is no R in my name, and an R doesn't even sound right when you pronounce it

It depends on who it is. If I will see them again, I will correct them. If it is someone that I will probably never see again or care about, I won't.

I correct them and make a joke out of it saying "I answer to everything".

My former boss, who is still with the company but is now in a different role, used to constantly mispronounce my last name. I corrected him every time and got more and more aggressive about it. At some point it shows a total lack of respect for someone when you can't remember how to pronounce their name. Needless to say I don't think very highly of him.

when people call me by my legal name it's like nails on a chalkboard. But they don't know the name I go by since it's not my name.

"frick you, pal."

I correct them, no one wants to call someone by the wrong name. Just don't call them out in front of other people.

Most of the time it's a customer so I don't say anything.

My grandmother always calls me my dad's name first. She may have gotten it right the first time once in the last twenty years. I don't care.

I check to see if they are experiencing a visual hallucination and are talking to what they are seeing, though that is mainly at work.