I was a Google employee at the time, and wanted to login into an email with my first and last name@gmail.com. at the time I setup email forwarding so didn't hav

I was a Google employee at the time, and wanted to login into an email with my first and last name@gmail.com. at the time I setup email forwarding so didn't have to login at all for years. Anyway I couldn't remember the password, and their security requirements at the time was different from today (no recovery email, no verification etc). And as a good security practice they also put cool down periods for trying passwords too fast... Filed for a support ticket, they told me nothing could be done because security of the account. I told them to send recovery info to the account in question (so that it would be forwarded to me), but they didn't. They also verifiably know who I am, and there was some amount of trust that it was my account. I spent few hours of writing down passwords and copy pasting to find out. Eventually did. This shit is nonsense.