The following clip is fictional, but the exact same thing does happen in data entry IRL, even as you are reading this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YIFxgam

The following clip is fictional, but the exact same thing does happen in data entry IRL, even as you are reading this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YIFxgamZ-M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YIFxgamZ-M Bam, you now have a government-assigned name. How come you didn't use it before? ( For a very brief period, I was known to the US authorities under a slightly different name than what was on my other ID cards, just because a data entry clerk has decided that my family name is a typo of a similar, Spanish-sounding name, and "corrected" it for me. Fortunately I noticed and had a fix applied before the error propagated; I was well aware that sooner or later someone would use your line, i.e. "that's dumb as hell. You have one name and that's the one on your id card"; that assumption would have been false, and would have me gotten deported on the account of invalid visa. Same thing, global corporation a few years later: "yeah, the surname matches in first five characters, let's link this schmuck's ID card with an old account of somebody who previously worked for us in a completely different country and capacity." A few hours later: "What exactly are you trying to access here, your credentials are for Marketing in Ireland, not IT here!!!" In other words: which ID card? )