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I've had that experience: the logins that get automatically assigned at the Big Enterprise Company where I work, are sometimes nonsensical. I've seen some cowor
by sedev 13y ago
I've had that experience: the logins that get automatically assigned at the Big Enterprise Company where I work, are sometimes nonsensical. I've seen some coworkers with just surname@example.com, but many more with an arbitrary combination of their given name and surname. The hash they made of my legal name was to my eyes ugly, and it didn't help that it's difficult to speak. I also have a lot of coworkers whose backgrounds are in Asia or the Indian subcontinent, and I can't imagine they're happier about their names getting mangled.
- yen223 13y agoAs a Chinese guy, we are used to having our names mangled, because our family name comes first. Any site that requires a "first" name and a "last" name will almost always display our names backwards. Ex: If your name is Lee Kuan Yew, your name will usually be rendered as "Kuan Yew Lee". A good example of this is noted director Ang Lee - whose real name should be Lee Ang. Indians also face name issues, mostly because of the length. 20-30 character names are not uncommon. (Also, the Indian subcontinent is part of Asia.)
- StavrosK 13y agoWhen you say if should be Lee Ang, do you mean that the family name is Lee and should go first according to the Chinese rules?
- lake99 13y agoYou're right about that. Though my name itself is quite short, being one of the vast majority of South Indians who don't have a last name, quite like Srinivasa Ramanujan, I was quite annoyed that my login id was based on my father's name, rather than mine, at one of the large companies I worked at. And, yes, I was a fussbudget until they fixed it.