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At my old job we had a system of first initial + last name, or if that was already taken then the first two characters of first name + last name, etc. A ticket came into us from an Lo[…] Li who had some concerns about being loli@bignamecompany.com. We obviously gave him an alias.
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Always think of Shawna Hart for the first initial last name type of aliases.
I used to own the Xbox account KevinShart. I haven’t logged into it in like 10 years though, so I wouldn’t be surprised if they deleted the account.
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Literally every company I worked in assigned name.surname@company.com, I don’t know why people would complicate their life by doing literally anything else.
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I mean yeah, but it happens even more with the naming scheme in the original post. Most companies just add a number when that happens. Predictable naming schemes, at least as the default, make it a lot easier to find people in large companies.
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Sorry, I meant professional company emails. Obviously people can make up whatever private gmail account they want. And people can state their preferred name, but the fact that if I call my coworker “Josh” and their last name is “Jacobson”, the fact that I can type in Josh.Jacobson and find them is extremely helpful, and I don’t get why companies would complicate that by making it “jojacko” .
Company I most recently joined gave me name.surname1@company.com. Unfortunately there was someone else with the exact same name combination. Feels bad man.
Because 30 years ago we didn’t have enough letters or something and people stick with tradition because change is apparently really hard to do.
I fairly regularly work with someone who, in their organization’s alias scheme, was given the email address of an 80s cartoon villain. It rules so much and I doubt she’s even in on the joke.
Stacy Keletor?
Jamie Afar?
Barry Atman?
Carrie Obracommander?
Stephanie Keletor?
Carrie Obracommander?
I saw one of these in action! I never actually knew her, but she was cc’ed in a lot of the emails I was getting. Our emails were first initial, middle initial, first three letters of last name, then extra digits if needed. J. E. Lloyd had “jello@…”
That’s funny and kinda cute name
First letter of first name + last name @ company dot com. They made an exception for Wendy Horowitz.
One of the systems we currently use at work just shortens the first name to 1-4 characters and adds the last name. I still have to figure out on what criteria.
The bad thing about it is that it sometimes changes names to the other gender - think Erica to Eric. I never realized how often that could be done in my language by chance and it only affects female names.
Normally that would matter much but three weeks ago they established that account name as our new matrix chat handles…
We’ve had a couple funny ones where I work. I provision users in our call centers phone system.
afriend@company.com is the most innocent one I’ve come across. Emails are only internal for us so no one really says anything since customers don’t see them
Worst I’ve seen was “ruffies”, best was “lovle1”
Fren 🙂
My favourites, first initial + surname:
Back in the day when a lot of things things were capped at 8 characters, my uncle used to work for a company where they had (first 7 letters of last name) + (first letter of first name).
At least until they hired a woman named Margaret Manspera. Luckily, mansperm@company.com was spotted in advance, and she was given margaret@company.com instead.
I used to work with a dflowers@company and told him it was the best email address. He didn’t get the joke. 😥
But then there was also a guy called Richard Face…
