Too Many Marks.

mdshunk

Ever get on a job where everyone seems to have the same first name as you? I've been at this one place where it seems like most of the guys are named Mark. My name is Marc, so it's certainly confusing enough. The floor guy is Mark. The painter is Mark. The cabinet guy is Mark. I'm the electrician, and I'm Marc. The window guy stopped in the other day to take some measurements, and do you care to guess what his name is? You got it. Mark. Weird... almost like I got beamed onto another planet. Now, I know how George Foreman's kids must feel.

JohnJ0906

Been there, done that. I've done jobs with 2 or 3 other Johns.

At least when someone yelled, "John!", someone answered. Might not be the one they wanted, but at least someone responded....

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threaderman

That's because were old,and our parental figures were not flamboyant.Now a days every one needs to be SPECIAL ,so they have their unique spellings and pronounciations.

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Susan Betz

When I was born, Susan was the number three most given girl's name.

Now it's not in the top 100.

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Jake Stevens

We have two Mike's that work here and two salesmen that call on us that are Mike's. We had a service call with my two Mikes on it and the sales rep Mike.

Teetorbilt

There were 5 Joe's on one job last year. On another job, a few years ago, I'd swear that everybody on the site was named Bob.

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threaderman

40ish? I won't tell.

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Susan Betz

46ish, to be precise. Close to my birthday last month, I jumped a year somewhere and believed I was turning 47. Then I did the math and thought... wait a minute...

Here's a fun site: http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/babynames/

I checked and Susan is now number 622 in popularity.

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KentWhitten

I have a thing about guys called Steve, even though my name isn't Steve it seems as though everyone that comes up to ask for a job, a project owner, the mailman, kid riding down the street, my neighbor, the painters...it seems like everyone is named Steve!

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dkillianjr

Yup It seems like there are a lot of Daves too. A little while back I was on a job. It was me, my dads name is Dave, the customers name was Dave, a guy we had helping us his name was Dave, and the building inspectors name was Dave. And actually the lumber delivery drivers name was Dave too



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Chris G

I tried to convince my brother to name his daughter Clamydia. He thought it sounded pretty too. His wife wasn't impressed though. Oh well, I'll keep trying on my friends.

Bkessler

I was with a company of about 12 and 1/3 of us were Brian.

Crawdad

That's just nasty.

bigdifficultme

About 9 yrs ago I was on one of our job sites. My boss yells hey john get over here. So I holler ok. One of the subs helpers says why? My boss realizes whe have the same first name. So he calls out my last name. I yell Iam coming, the subs helper looks at me and says " hey john how does he know my last name?" We both had the same first and last names. I was younger and better looking so I shook his hand and said I was sorry to meet him.

Grumpyplumber

Hi Marc, dunno if I'd introduced myself, my name is Mark.

Putty Truck

I think my name is Plumber, but I'll have to check my license....

Michaeljp86

When I was in welding school at the collage I wanted to sign up for a class they just added and the welding instructor was at the computer and said whats your name? I told him Michael Price, he types it in and said theres 5 michael prices going here.

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Norrrrrrrrrrrrm

I know what you all mean. It seems everywhere I go there is a Norm in the room or on the street or in traffic, all the subs.....Wait a minute, now that I think about I have only met one Norm. I was a little kid and he was around 80.

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Michaeljp86

Norm isnt to common, its a good name though. I hate all the names kids get now. Those soccer moms have to come up with something new so there kid is so cool. Like tristen or kelsa, just sounds retarded to me. Pick a good classic name like Michael

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Norrrrrrrrrrrrm

That site you listed is pretty cool.
Norman is ranked 975ish not as cool now as it was in 1932 when it was as high as 35 on the ranks!!!

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