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My name isn’t super known, but it happened to be the same as that of a very big fish in the financial institution I worked for. Thankfully these people were wo
by torben-friis 1y ago
My name isn’t super known, but it happened to be the same as that of a very big fish in the financial institution I worked for.
Thankfully these people were working mostly through physical meetings and calls, so no sensitive info was leaked, but I did get calendar invites to discuss the future of entire countries as an engineering intern.
I used the name a couple times to set up our internal meetings in the fancier upper floors, so we could have whiteboard discussions over a fancy hardwoods table. No one questioned the name appearing in the entrance display as the current user.
- stareatgoats 1y ago[flagged]
- torben-friis 1y agoDiscuss it as in “there’s elections in Argentina, let’s see how we react to the change of administration”. Not as in “I will replace Argentina’s president”. At least the titles/descriptions didn’t contain anything to consider pulling a Snowden about it.
- Atlas667 1y ago[flagged]
- ben_w 1y agoThat's what they said, isn't it? Just because some people accidentally invite journalists into Signal meetings to discuss active bombing campaigns, doesn't mean everyone running a financial institution is vying to be named the next President of Argentina.
- aatd86 1y agoNah, it is probably just about rebalancing the portfolio in prevision of the bond market acting up... this is not MKUltra yet. ;D
- dspillett 1y ago> You're being naive. This is exactly what they do. You are being knee-jerk judgemental. They didn't say those things don't happen, just that it didn't appear the comms they received by mistake looked like less sinister interactions with the political world.
- Atlas667 1y agoOops, didnt realize it was the same poster. Thought it was someone else saying these things dont happen.
- kevin_thibedeau 1y agoNot a great example when a $40B bailout is preventing an Argentine puppet from being sacked.
- asveikau 1y agoYes, and the reason I've commonly heard for the bailout was that it is to help US based investors. That's a clear example of the US financial sector influencing foreign politics.
- stareatgoats 1y agoOK thanks, but well, my comment was a bit tongue in cheek anyway. That nuance didn't survive the passage all the way from intended meaning to text interpretation it seems.
- georgeburdell 1y agoNot identical, but I once shared most of the first name as well as my last name with a VP of research at the company I worked for, and we were in the same technical field. My (much less impressive) publication record got confused with his frequently and I always wondered if it gave me a career boost.
- bitwize 1y agoNice to meet you, Jeff Lebowski.
- tilne 1y agoNow stay out of Malibu
- antidamage 1y agoMy deadname was not only owned by some other people in my industry, it was also used by someone else born in the same hospital, same ward on the same day, on the same morning as me. That was endlessly irritating. Glad to see that after five years post abandoning it my contribution to the name is basically gone from the internet now.
- gambiting 1y ago>>it was also used by someone else born in the same hospital, same ward on the same day, on the same morning as me. That was endlessly irritating How so? Other than a funny coincidence, how would that ever come up anywhere in anything unless you both lived in a tiny community where everyone knows each other. I just don't understand how someone born on the same day as you having the same name was "irritating".
- wisemang 1y agoAn ex-gf of mine’s dad had the same name and birthday as a convict. Caused him plenty of trouble when crossing the border apparently. Hopefully that’s not the case for GP
- slyn 1y agoUsed to work as a manager at a pizza place and we had a guy apply to deliver who had the same name as... their son. Allegedly Jr. had a lengthy record including some drug offenses and something like a DUI / DWI. Naturally Sr. And Jr's records got crossed since they have the same First, Last, and Address, which caused Sr. many headaches including that we required a driving record check that would fail on a DUI / DWI.
- cm2012 1y agoBirthdate and place of birth are used as identifiers (I have been asked what hospital/city I was born in before on paperwork).
- torben-friis 1y ago>I just don't understand how someone born on the same day as you having the same name was "irritating". Because, lacking a national identity number, the natural way to distinguish to people in a system when the name wouldn’t do is going to be age/birthdate or location.
- burningChrome 1y ago>> My name isn’t super known, but it happened to be the same as that of a very big fish in the financial institution I worked for. Same thing happened to me. My name in outlook was the right under a high up VP. Outlook auto correct would bring my name up at the top of the list so people would just hit enter and write their email. Same thing, I was getting some emails I clearly should not have been viewing, with budgetary spreadsheets and names of people who were being considered for layoffs. One of them I sent back to the VP and diplomatically explained the mixup. I didn't get any emails for a few months and wondered how they fixed the situation. I guess they gave the VP and underscore in his name instead of the normal firstname.lastname@company.com so now when I typed in my name, his came up first.
- CamperBob2 1y agoPlot twist: you were the real VP all along.
- deanishe 1y agoWe had a board member who frequently emailed confidential documents to a security guard with the same name as another director. It was his iPad's fault, apparently.
- DANmode 1y agoHow did that play out? It basically defines the organization.