Mom Angry At Airline After Employee Name Shames Daughter, Abcde

Leeda.the.Paladin

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ORANGE COUNTY, CA (RNN) - Southwest Airlines has apologized after one of its employees reportedly name-shamed a 5-year-old girl.

Traci Redford said a gate agent at California’s John Wayne Airport made fun of her daughter’s name, Abcde Redford, according to KABC.

She pronounces her name “ab-city” and because she suffers from epilepsy, she and her mom always pre-board.

The Redfords were flying home to El Paso, TX, when the gate agent laughed at the name, pointed it out to coworkers and even went so far as to post a photo of Abcde’s boarding pass on social media so that others could join her in name shaming.

“While I was sitting there, she took a picture of my boarding pass and chose to post it on social media, mocking my daughter,” Redford told local media. “It was actually brought to my attention by somebody who had seen it on Facebook and reported it to Southwest Airlines. And after two weeks of doing a formal complaint, Southwest hadn't done anything.”

Southwest Airlines issued the following statement:

“We extend our sincere apology to the family. We take great pride in extending our Southwest Hospitality to all of our Customers, which includes living by the Golden Rule and treating every individual with respect, in person or online. The post is not indicative of the care, respect, and civility we expect from all of our Employees. We have followed up with the Employee involved, and while we do not disclose personnel actions publicly, we are using this as an opportunity to reinforce our policies and emphasize our expectations for all Employees.”

According to Babynames.com, Abcde is not currently ranked in United States births. Even so, Vocativ reviewed the Social Security Administration database in 2014 and found that 328 babies, all girls, had been named Abcde in the U.S.

Also in 2014, the name Abcde made national headlines when a 7-year-old Autistic girl, also named Abcde, was turned away by a mall Santa Claus.

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lesedi

All is well with me
ab-city tho

 

Southernbella.

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i hope she was fired

but is the baby name really ABCDE >>>FGHIGK >>>LMNOP

Dear God if it is

someone need to find that pic so we can rule out ethnicity

They're blonde hair/blue eyed white.

That said, I still don't care for name shaming. Yeah she named her daughter after an urban legend but if the name ever caught on with more of her people, all of a sudden it would become "normal."
 

LivingInPeace

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People need to stop giving children dumb names. I don’t care if white people do it. I do care when black people make up nonsense and put it on a birth certificate. And I don’t care if that makes people mad. They’re children, not pets. And I’m not trying to hear about it being part of the culture. Names should have meanings behind them. They shouldn’t be a collection of random letters that don’t correlate with pronunciation.
 

Cheleigh

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The showing other coworkers in front of the woman and posting of someone's actual boarding pass on SM is a fireable offense. If she'd just hooted about it after the woman left and kept if off SM, she would have been alright. That said, the name is ludicrous and she's unwittingly set her child up for a lifetime of this sort of behavior from kids and adults alike. There are plenty of unique and unusual names that don't include just writing the first five letters of the alphabet.
 

dicapr

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Poor child but she is going to get name shamed all her life. Her mom literally named her a string of letters.

That being said never post anything like that to social media because it is in poor taste and will probably get you fired. Laugh about it in the break room and keep it moving.
 

dicapr

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The urban legend is that some poor, uneducated woman decided to name her child ABCDE (or L-a, or Lemonjello and Oranjello, or Female, or Chlymyida, or Ghonnorhea, etc). And these urban legends typically have black women in mind or occasionally, trailerpark whites.

Two of those names I’ve seen in real life.

ETA-Make that 3.
 

Dreamn

Chasing the Unicorn
I don't understand the names should have meaning argument. Names have meaning because someone once upon a time made them up and gave them a meaning and that meaning was accepted by the masses :lol:. Everyone's name can have meaning.

Southwest employee waa wrong.

It's funny that this video from KevonStage showed up on my feed yesterday:


This is the only thing that I don't understand with names. If you're going to name your kid a common name, give them the common spelling. I'll never understand Aiwrecka, Lawren, etc type of spellings. Just subjecting your kid to 'how do you pronounce that' for the rest of their life.
 

HappilyLiberal

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ORANGE COUNTY, CA (RNN) -
According to Babynames.com, Abcde is not currently ranked in United States births. Even so, Vocativ reviewed the Social Security Administration database in 2014 and found that 328 babies, all girls, had been named Abcde in the U.S.

Also in 2014, the name Abcde made national headlines when a 7-year-old Autistic girl, also named Abcde, was turned away by a mall Santa Claus.

Copyright 2018 Raycom News Network. All rights reserved.

So, she saddled her child with that dumb name and it's not even original??? :lachen: :lachen: :lachen: :lachen: :lachen: :lachen: :lachen: :lachen: :lachen: :lachen:
 

HappilyLiberal

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The showing other coworkers in front of the woman and posting of someone's actual boarding pass on SM is a fireable offense. If she'd just hooted about it after the woman left and kept if off SM, she would have been alright. That said, the name is ludicrous and she's unwittingly set her child up for a lifetime of this sort of behavior from kids and adults alike. There are plenty of unique and unusual names that don't include just writing the first five letters of the alphabet.

That child has a disability and will already be teased mercilessly in school... with a name like Abcde, just go ahead and double her torment. I hope her mom is planning to homeschool. But, given she named her child Abcde, that poor baby is destined for a life of misery!

There are actually two ways to pronounce my first name (a nice normal first name)... me and my fifth grade teacher had words because she was insisting on using the other pronunciation even after I explained to her that the reason it is pronounced that way is because my cousin has the same name with one letter difference and she pronounces her name the other way (and trust me her name is normal as well its just that when she was born both spellings were common but by the time I was born, they'd stopped using her spelling). I didn't even go around correcting people on the pronunciation of my name. However, my mom had gone to a PTA meeting and used the correct pronunciation and she asked me how to pronounce my name that Monday when I got to school. I finally ethered her by asking her why she didn't ask my mom when she had her there at the PTA meeting. I couldn't stand that woman!
 

HappilyLiberal

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I found an original copy of my bc and it didn’t have a first name only the word “female” in brackets. I showed it to my dd and she started calling me Female (rhymes with tamale). I wanted to smack her but it was pretty funny. :drunk::lachen::drunk:

See... that was your fault... don't you remember when you were a child? You walked into that one with eyes wide open!
 
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