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What if a new employee was named Steve Teve?
by pkaye 1y ago
What if a new employee was named Steve Teve?
- incanus77 1y agoI first learned about the ability to apply for custom aliases at my university after noticing a guy I knew didn't have the usual pattern — first 5 of last name, first name initial, and nothing or else numbers 2+ depending upon your order in line. So I was 'millej3'. Then I thought about the guy's name: D___ Hoover. He had applied for, and got, 'hoover'.
- hennell 1y agoI got an alias setup for my uni address. Although it asked where it should go, so I just directed it directly to my Gmail. My inbox was closed after graduation. My forwarding alias worked for years after. Unrelated fact, a university ending email domain is enough to prove student status for a lot of software.
- stevage 1y ago>Unrelated fact, a university ending email domain is enough to prove student status for a lot of software. When Facebook first came out, it was the only way I could get an account.
- stevage 1y agoI had a colleague, also at a university, where the policy was first 4 of surname, then first name initial. Her name was S____ Cuntin. Yes, they actually issued it.
- ahi 1y agoI'm in my 40s so bit of a grey beard now, but I worked with the real grey beards at University of Michigan. Something like 75k active staff and students, and more than 600k living alumni, yet their email addresses were like bob@umich.edu. Setting up the first campus email server came with privileges.
- arrowsmith 1y agoI don't get it, what's wrong with "hooved"?
- ubermonkey 1y agoHeh. I have a somewhat related story. In the market we sell into, mergers, acquisitions and spin-outs are the norm. People shift employers all the time without changing offices. It's a whole Thing. USUALLY this is somewhat drama-free, and USUALLY there's not an issue with email addresses, but this is not a story about the usual case. Most places now seem to use the firstname.lastname@corp.com style of address. This is a good idea, and creates collisions less often than flastname@ style addresses would. However, one of my customers -- someone who had been happily a first.last@companyA.com user -- got acquired by an org that insisted on the old style flast@companyB.com addresses. I will not provide the name of my customer, but the problem that ensued was of the same type, and yet a bit more severe, than it would have been if his name were "Steve Hithead." To this day, though, his address honors the local convention. STANDARDS MUST BE FOLLOWED NO MATTER WHAT, apparently.
- 3pt14159 1y agoHahahaha. I wish HN allowed the use of the joy emoji in response for these types of posts.
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- rlpb 1y agoI imagine that certain people of a particular temperament might deliberately leave such a thing be, perhaps for their own amusement, or maybe because they consider it to say more about the company than it says about them. Is this individual such a person?
- ubermonkey 1y agoEmphatically no. He's very annoyed.
- Spooky23 1y agoI worked at a place where legal swooped in and banished reuse of email addresses for an odd long period (like 7 years). That created problems with contractors as any interruption in service required a new address. So we had a few John.Smith183@example.com in the org.
- dullcrisp 1y agos(teve)2@next.com