AIO? A random teenage girl who works at a local cookie shop thought my name was funny, so she printed out a sticker with my full name and a QR Code next to it and stuck the sticker to her car dashboard...to be funny I guess? It really bothers me and I want to report it to her manager.
A little background, I found out about this when my 15 yo daughter received a text from her childhood best friend. The friend sent my daughter a picture of the sticker and said that her girlfriend works at a cookie shop I frequent. She saw my name on an order, thought it was funny, so she printed a sticker out (with my full name and a QR code) and put the sticker on her car dashboard. Now, I get that this is a total coincident that this girl would be dating my daughter's childhood best friend, and that the best friend would see this sticker. It is a small world to be sure. This teenage girl had no idea who I or my daughter were. But, I am extremely bothered by the fact that my name is stuck to some random teenage girl's car dashboard, just for laughs, and there's a QR code to who knows where next to my name. I really want to report it to the cookie shop's manager but my two daughters and husband say I'm overreacting and that it's not a big deal. Afterall, our last name is funny. It does include a synonym for a male body part. For anyone wondering, the picture of the sticker isn't clear enough to open the QR code. My daughter asked her friend where the QR code goes, but we haven't got a response. My daughter is begging me not to contact the cookie shop manager, but I want this girl to remove the sticker. AIO?
TL;DR: My 15-year-old daughter’s friend discovered that her girlfriend, who works at a cookie shop I go to, printed a sticker with my full name and a QR code on it and put it on her car dashboard as a joke because my last name is funny. The girl didn’t know who I was, but I’m uncomfortable that an employee used my name from an order this way. My husband and daughters think I’m overreacting and don’t want me to contact the manager, but I feel weirded out and want the sticker removed. Am I overreacting?
EDIT: I guess I wasn’t necessarily upset that my name was being mocked, it is a funny name, it’s more that it was put out there to begin with, and I had no idea where the QR code went, and I wasn’t able to open the QR code from the picture. I don’t want the girl fired, but I also do feel it wasn’t professional of her. Two things can be true at once.
EDIT: I guess it was not clear, I do not know this girl. I do not know at which cookie shop she works. There are multiple stores of this cookie shop in my area. I only know her girlfriend, who was my daughter‘s childhood Bestie. I couldn’t just walk in to talk to her because I do not know what she looks like. It is not my goal to get her fired. I guess my goal would be to just have her talked to that and told that It is not appropriate.
UPDATE: I feel much better about it all today. The QR code takes you to the cookie shop’s ingredient list and menu. She has a lot of other past customer names on stickers in her car too, when she finds something funny, she prints it out and sticks it in her car. I guess it’s a collection for her. I still am of the opinion that this is not something this girl should be doing. But for my daughter’s sake, I’m leaving it all alone and have moved on.