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It's not necessarily disrespectful, she's probably just distracted. I worked with a woman who had a common name but unusual spelling, but wound up misspelling it on several occasions in emails when I was particularly busy or distracted. Just remind her again in person.

to me this is the definition of disrespectful, if you don't care enough to get someone's name right.[/quote]

I can only really focus on a limited number of things at once.  If I am asking someone to lunch, or about a routine work matter, I can certainly remember the correct spelling of their name.  While I am trying to coordinate numerous things by email while talking on the phone about another issue, the spelling of their name is not foremost in my mind.  [/quote]

Then you really should wait to send the email until you can give it proper attention. To do otherwise looks sloppy and is unprofessional. You may be brilliant and do amazing work otherwise but if you get people's names wrong, they will start to wonder what else you get wrong. I work with people like this. Generally, in the end it becomes clear that they are lazy/incompetent/stupid/etc. You may not be any of these things but why come across that way?[/quote]

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