Unbelievable, right?

[cm8]

The joke was we know what the parents were drinking when they conceived her but they just couldn't spell it. Whether that is the actual case or not didn't matter, that is what everyone in the room thought and unless you asked the parents you wouldn't know if it was supposed to be the drink or not. I could really care less one way or the other, it wasn't my name or my kid.[/QU What a mature group. Your boss must be proud.

 

[rie'smom]

I'm appalled that ANY reputable business would base their hiring decisions on a woman's first name, especially a relatively common one like Takila. A quick web search turned up several perfectly respectable Takilas, including Sgt. Takila Addison who was on Oprah. (http://www.oprah.com/oprahshow/Sgt-Takila-Addison-Explains-Military-Life-For-Women)

It's a good thing the US Military isn't as blatantly biased as your former employer! (And Takila's probably better off without that job anyway.)

Why is it surprising? If I own a business I don't want the people representing me named after liquor. I don't care who Oprah has on her show. It's my business on the line.
"Hello, I'm Takila and I represent ABC company." Really?

 

[Magpie]

Why is it surprising? If I own a business I don't want the people representing me named after liquor. I don't care who Oprah has on her show. It's my business on the line.
"Hello, I'm Takila and I represent ABC company." Really?

So what's wrong with, "Hello, my name's Tammy and I represent ABC company."?

Why not ASK Takila if she's willing to adopt a stage name?

Otherwise, as far as I'm concerned, it's the same as deciding not to hire an otherwise perfectly qualified Chinese guy just because his name happens to be Hung or Wang or Dong.

 

[hulagirl87]

I certainly don't understand what parents are thinking when they do such things but it is nice when someone steps in. For instance this judge in New Zealand...a girl who was named Talula does the hula from Hawaii. That was her real name, a judge heard about it and made the parents change it. When reading the article there is a section that says names that were allowed and names that were blocked. It's shocking to me the names that people considered naming their children!!!!!!!!! Fish and Chips?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7522952.stm

 

[phorsenuf]

Why is it surprising? If I own a business I don't want the people representing me named after liquor. I don't care who Oprah has on her show. It's my business on the line.
"Hello, I'm Takila and I represent ABC company." Really?

She could come work for the liquor store down here in Florida. It's called ABC.

 

[EMom]

So what's wrong with, "Hello, my name's Tammy and I represent ABC company."?

Why not ASK Takila if she's willing to adopt a stage name?

Otherwise, as far as I'm concerned, it's the same as deciding not to hire an otherwise perfectly qualified Chinese guy just because his name happens to be Hung or Wang or Dong.

I suppose you could ask Takila to do that, but you run the risk of her pitching a fit and getting loud about what is WRONG with her name and what is your PROBLEM with a name like Takila? Yada, yada. What company wants the grief? If Takila has a lick of sense, she has already realized her name may limit her job opportunities and she will have taken steps to remedy that. If keeping the name "Takila" front and center is more important to her than her potential employer's sensibilities, then she has made her choice and she will live with the consequences.

I've been in court when people came in for a name change. It was usually VERY apparent why they wanted to change their name. Just because their parent named them something that cursed them, limited their options, pigeonholed them as a pole dancer, etc., does not mean the person has to remain doomed forever. Truly, I think if a parent wants to use a name that is the sort that will limit a child.....Let them go to court and change their OWN name instead of tagging their innocent newborn with an odious moniker. (Hey, how about that one? Odious Moniker Smith. )

There is a difference between choosing to name your child a less than traditional name and choosing to name them something that will negatively impact their childhood and careeer. Take the poor girl that graduated with my nephew and had a first name that made you think of breasts (it was something like ta-tas) and a middle name that made you think of her other private part. Sorry, but there is no way on earth I'd hire her to represent my company. We'd be a laughingstock. Ask her to go by a different name? Well, if she hasn't figured out by age 22 that her name is.....a negative attention getter and perhaps limiting her options.....then maybe I'd prefer to hire someone a bit more perceptive.

These people cannot help what their parents did to them, but they do have a simple remedy. The burden should not be on the employer, but on the one with the atrocious name.

 

[stinkerbelle's mom]

How would you pronounce this child's name?
"Le-a"
It's pronounced "Ledasha".

When the Mother was asked about the pronunciation of the name, she said, "the dash don't be silent."

I wonder how this mom would pronounce my full first name if she saw it since it is Kelli-Ann. Maybe I would need to inform her that the dash is silent.

I also have a "-" (hyphen) in my first name which is silent, unless I am spelling my first name for someone. We don't call it a dash, we call it a hyphen.