It was the same deal when I got my first job out of college (20+ years ago) at Motorola (somewhere in the neighborhood of 200,000 employees at the time). Reque

It was the same deal when I got my first job out of college (20+ years ago) at Motorola (somewhere in the neighborhood of 200,000 employees at the time). Requested my first name, it was available. I constantly got people asking questions in amazement at my email address - how did I do it??? I would just shrug and say "I asked".