My boss had the craziest reasons for his children’s names, they sounded fine at first
WE’VE all met someone with a strange name.
One woman talked about the seemingly normal names her boss gave his children and the strange reasoning behind those names.
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In a Reddit afteruser AprilBelle08 shared a conversation she had with her colleague about the strange names.
She explained that 15 years ago her colleague had a boss who told her the strange names.
Shortly after the man started at his workplace, he gave a brief introduction about himself.
He also told us something about his family, including the names of his children.
“He said he had two kids, Kevin and Adrian,” the poster said.
One of his new employees replied, “How nice, two little boys.”
However, the manager explained that there had been a misunderstanding.
He added that he and his wife wanted to cause exactly this confusion.
“The dad said, ‘No, they’re girls,’” the Reddit user wrote.
The boss revealed the unique reasoning he and his partner used when choosing the names.
“He and his wife were convinced that the girls wouldn’t get far in life with girls’ names,” she said.
The couple believed that their daughters would be more attractive with a boy’s name.
She pointed out that there was also a less extreme option available to the couple.
“You’d give them unisex names. But no, Kevin, the little girl,” she wrote.
Other Reddit users shared their thoughts on the odd reasoning in the comments.
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- Chow Tow, meaning ‘Stinking Head’.
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“I hate those people because they are the people who give their daughters boy names but would never give their sons girl names,” someone commented.
“I knew an Adrienne, pronounced Adrian but clearly feminine when you read it. Kevin is a tough name to have as a girl,” said another reader.
“They wouldn’t get far in life with a feminine name, that’s just plain misogyny,” wrote one Redditor.
“Kevin and Adrian for girls? That’s bold, but hey, it’s their choice. Different people, different habits,” someone else said.
“Male names have more impact on job applications, especially when filtered by AI,” wrote one reader.
