Calling Names

I get irritated when I hear people being called Abdul, even in movies. May be more so after I met my colleague Shabbir. I was handling a Support ticket from a Vietnamese Bank when I was told Abdul Shabbir was the guy onsite I could get more info from. I messaged him. He gave me the info and in the end, asked me how I knew his name. I asked him what he meant. He said I was the first colleague to call him Shabbir, everyone else only called him Abdul. I said I had had classmates with similar names. I mean, when you have to address multiple Mohammeds and Abduls, you figure that they've got a unique and many a times, nicer sounding names next to them. Anyway, Shabbir and I've had a great rapport since then.