“Hi Liz,” wrote the assistant, “just checking in on whether the Congressman is available next week.”
The reply, two minutes later: “Who is Liz?”
“Hi Elizabeth, I thought you went by Liz — apologies if that is incorrect.”
“I do not go by Liz. Where did you get your information?”
It goes on, and you can read the entire exchange below — but it’s a funny-and-sad reminder of the pitfalls of e-mail.
“Sounds like you got played by someone who KNOWS I hate that name and that it’s a fast way to TICK me off,” Becton writes a few minutes later. “Who told you that I go by that name?”
Really? Did Elizabeth Becton just really waste all that time becuase some stranger addressed her as Liz rather than Elizabeth? Really? Get over yourself woman. This is not how you want to be in the news and it makes you look like a complete bitch. I would pay for the spider for payment guy to send an email to her, offering his seven-legged spider as an apology for the horrible mistake of calling her by the wrong name. Geesh
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