My boss had the craziest reasoning for naming his kids – they sound fine until you understand the context
WE’VE all encountered someone with a weird name at one point or another.
One woman revealed the seemingly normal names her boss gave to his children and his strange reasoning behind them.
In a Reddit post, user AprilBelle08 shared a conversation she had with her co-worker about the odd names.
She explained that her colleague had a boss 15 years ago who revealed the strange names to her.
Shortly after starting at the workplace, the man gave a brief introduction about himself.
This included a tidbit about his family, including the names of his children.
“He said he had two children named Kevin and Adrian,” the poster explained.
One of his new employees replied, saying: “How lovely, two little boys.”
However, the manager explained that there had been a misunderstanding.
He added that he and his wife had intended for this exact confusion to occur.
“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.
“His wife and he believed that the girls wouldn’t get far in life with feminine names,” she said.
The couple believed that their daughters would be more employable with male names.
She pointed out that there was a less extreme option available to the pair.
“Surely you’d give them unisex names though. But no, Kevin, the little girl,” she wrote.
Other Reddit users shared their thoughts on the strange reasoning in the comments section.
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- Martian
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- Rogue
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Other out-listed names include Adolf Hitler and Cyanide.
“I hate those people because they’re the people who give their daughters boy names but would never give their sons a feminine name,” pointed out one person.
“I knew an Adrienne, pronounced the same as Adrian but obviously feminine when read it. Kevin is a rough name to have as a girl,” said another reader.
“They ‘wouldn’t get far in life with feminine names,’ that’s just straight-up misogyny,” wrote one Redditor.
“Kevin and Adrian for girls? That’s bold, but hey, it’s their choice. Different strokes for different folks,” said another person.
“Masculine names go further in job applications, especially if they’re AI filtered,” wrote one reader.