Finally a topic on HN I can actually speak about with professional experience!!! <3 I've done this job for years - putting new hires into Active Directory - (h

Finally a topic on HN I can actually speak about with professional experience!!! <3 I've done this job for years - putting new hires into Active Directory - (haven't quite got myself a professional programming gig yet, hopefully soon) and I don't know of any common system that would reject a three letter first name. Before I clicked I thought it would be two or one letters. 99% of orgs are on AD, and most of the other systems pull info from that. I would guess that one of these systems pulls info and doesn't allow manual entry, but also assumes names > 3 characters (or they're lying). I've known plenty of people stuck with a pre-marriage name because it was too hard to change everywhere, or people who chose a different preferred name as their real name is often mispronounced, and other stuff like that. Worst case scenario you add a few letters to get him in the system, apologize, inform his coworkers, and put in a request to update/fix it/whatever. If your manager is aware you're using a preferred name and your legal name still needs to go on important forms and stuff, it should be business as usual. That stuff happens all the time. There's definitely bias in these systems, doing things like assuming a first name is a given name and your last name is your family name (and that everyone has those). Works okay for anglos, but people from e.g. some Asian countries aren't accomodated properly. But 3 letters? What about Bob? Jon? Amy? What about Amy? This is just bizzare. Admitting it even more so. There's got to be something else going on here. I'm not a lawyer but surely you could at least argue discrimination?