WTF did you just call me?

I was reading a post over at Profgrrrrl's and it got me thinking about names. As I mentioned in my last real post, there is a person employed here who does not bother learning the names of the people who work in the lab. This might be because they (a) are too lazy (b) have difficulty remembering and pronouncing foreign names or (c) are just plain rude. Personally, I think it is a combination of a and b. Because s/he doesn't know our actual names, s/he must come up with other things to call us. Examples include:

Skinny guy - a.k.a. my graduate student. He is Asian and yes, he is skinny, but not overly so.

Hat guy - this is the M.D./Ph.D. student in the lab that wears a baseball hat almost every day.

Tall girl - M.D. working in the lab.

The best/most annoying one (depending on your perspective) is:

Canteen. This is how s/he refers to me. S/he tried to read my name off of a shipping label and this is what s/he came up with. Now, my name is a bit difficult to pronounce when you read it. People typically say it one of three ways, none of which are correct. I thought I had heard it all, but apparently I has not.

Here is what Canteen has in common with my real name:

(1) starts with a C

(2) contains the letters N and A

(3) is two syllables.

Here is what Canteen does not have in common with my real name:

(1) My name is not Canteen

(2) My name does not have "teen" or anything that looks like "teen" anywhere in it.

(3) In fact, my name does not contain the letters T or E

(4) My name contains 4 letters total.