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Whilst working in corporate I tried to get matt@apple.com which was showing as free, but in fact somebody in retail had claimed it. Good for them!
by msephton 1y ago
Whilst working in corporate I tried to get matt@apple.com which was showing as free, but in fact somebody in retail had claimed it. Good for them!
- MarkMarine 1y agoI had mark@apple.com during my time there, accidentally got added to one of the exec’s threads from Tim and felt pretty silly (and didn’t read anything in that thread, couldn’t delete it fast enough, had to email Tim to explain)
- hx8 1y agoThere are a lot of stories like this where people accidentally get emails and then not read them. Why wouldn't you read the email?
- dewey 1y agoBecause that’s the story you hear. The story that happened might be different.
- abtinf 1y agoOne reason: everything is insider trading.
- MarkMarine 1y agoI loved my job at Apple and I don’t know what level of surveillance they have on the work computers. It’s just absolutely not worth the risk.
- whamlastxmas 1y agoWhat possible upside is there to reading it? The potential downside is getting fired. I’d delete it too
- hx8 1y agoReally feels like the sender should be the one at risk and not the receiver.
- op00to 1y agoI don’t want to know things I’m not supposed to know. There’s no benefit to having that information. I’m not going to blackmail someone with it. I can’t profit over it. Better to delete immediately.
- gield 1y agoI managed to claim my 4-letter-first-name@apple.com. Not having an English name definitely helps.
- milkshakes 1y agoi nabbed complaints@apple.com for a while. that was pretty scarring actually.
- andrewchilds 1y agoI’m interested in reading the rest of this story.
- milkshakes 1y agosorry! that might get me in trouble. i didn't get in trouble for registering the alias, though i did remove it after getting one too many disturbing emails. that didn't stop me from registering it again at my next employer, where i received more complaints, but in this case they were less out there and i actually knew the people who could do something about them (smaller company, support shadowing shifts), and there i was eventually able to wire the alias into their official process after forwarding enough of them to the people i knew.
- mikelevins 1y agoI was mikel@apple.com for about a decade. I never got misdirected mail, probably because there aren’t all that many people with the first name "Mikel." The only other one I personally know of is Mikel Bancroft, who works at Franz, inc.
- MarceliusK 1y agoSomewhere out there is a very proud retail Matt with a prime slice of Apple email real estate