'I lost out on a job opportunity because of my fairytale name'

A person lost out on a job because of their fairytale name.

In the famous tragedeigh subreddit, said person shared a screenshot of a thread of three comments exhibiting this circumstance. They titled their post: "Once upon a time, these parents committed a (name) crime" The first person wrote how their boss "once decided against hiring someone because her name was Cinderella, and she didn't think she could ever take her seriously." The second person said: "That poor girl. What drugs were parents on." And the third person responded with a pun, saying:" Fairy dust."

Another responded: "At least it would be pretty easy to go by Cindy or Ella or something instead, she's far better off than a lot of names in this sub."

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The original poster replied to the commenter with: "Very true. I actually love the name Ella! Now I'm wondering why she'd use that name on her resume? It would be hard to look past tbh."

Cinderella, as many are familiar with from the Disney movie, is about a girl mistreated by her stepmother and stepsisters. One day she goes to a lavish ball with the help of a Fairy Godmother which leads her to a prince who she ends up marrying. There's also the thing of the iconic glass shoes that lets the prince know she's the lovely girl he met the night before.

But Cinderella has existed way before the 1950 Disney animation. The earliest version of the classic tale goes back to Egypt called Rhodopis which was first told by Greek geographer Strabo, around 7 BC and AD 23, about a Greek slave girl who marries the the king of Egypt. China is also said to have the oldest rendition of the tale from 850 C.E.

It is the French version that is known more by English speakers with the pumpkin, the fairy god-mother and the glass shoes. Charles Perrault published Cendrillon in his 1967 collection of fairy tales in Histoires ou contes du temps passé. The anglicized version of the Cendrillon which means "little ashes."

Then in 1812, the Brothers Grimm did their darker version of Cinderella in their folk tale collection Grimms' Fairy Tales. The German story was published as Aschenputtel and in this tale, the stepsisters cut off their toes to try and fit the glass slipper.

According to The Bump in 2023, the name Cinderella was #11353 in U.S for girls. The name is also is currently #18911 in U.S. births overall.