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American bureaucracies have a bizarre obsession with them. My school issued student IDs with unique numbers, which should have been the end of all such issues.
by nitwit005 11y ago
American bureaucracies have a bizarre obsession with them. My school issued student IDs with unique numbers, which should have been the end of all such issues.
Unfortunately, they made a bizarre system where US students had their student ID be their SSN with a fixed prefix, and international students got a random number with other prefixes. They refused to give up on using SSN even when they knew it wouldn't work for a good portion of students.
Heaven forbid someone just add an SSN to student ID lookup table to the database.
- ars 11y ago> Heaven forbid someone just add an SSN to student ID lookup table to the database. Why does a school even need this number? The only groups that need this number are financial institutions of all types (including employment and borrowing) and government agencies. A school does not need it. If they lend you money then that department might, but no further. What I do when places that don't need the number ask for it is pretend I don't remember it. So far I've not had any problems, they mange just fine without it.