Poor Kate!!

Well, my desk was moved to another office a month ago. However, my department is still same, I was just physically relocated to this office to accomodate few people into my office. Anyway new office is pretty good. I've got very good window view towards city and got 2 attractive receptionists. Although, I wasn't formally introduced to the people who work in this new office. It was sort of like sneak in there and take up the empty desk. However, I knew people whom I sit with presently in the room. But didn't know other people in the office including those receptionists.
Eventually, I heard one of the co-worker in my room called one receptionist by her name and I heard that. So, I knew her name. But didn't know the other's name.

Although, I noticed that in the kitchen area they had a notice stating 'If you run out of milk, please tell Kate or Venessa'. So, I knew who Venessa is and so I figured who is Kate. You know, logic! ;-)

Last week, I was expecting an internal mail. So, I had to tell receptionists that if they receive anything under Ujjaval that's me. Kate was there. I tried to use her derived name 'Kate' to call her. I told her 'Kate, I am expecting an internal mail and my name is Ujjaval; so if you receive anything under that name its me'. She looked up at me and stared at me. After a while, she said 'I'm not Kate. She used to work here before me. I am Megan and today is my last day.' The look on her face was complaining about being called by wrong name on the last day of the job. And I had the very rude reply for that. "O! Sorry. Anyway, I just wanted to tell you so that you know." My conversation ends there. I can say, she took pain to think about how did I get her name as Kate and not Megan. Next time, I went to kitchen and the milk-notice was removed.

Poor Kate! or Poor Megan! I feel sorry for her. It would have been hard that people whom you work around don't even know your correct name. :-)