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• quink@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Reminds me of Education Queensland’s approach to creating usernames. First letter of the first name, first four letters of the surname. Followed by a sequential number.

  I nearly lost it when I saw a staff member by the name of something like Sharon Laverton (names slightly anonymised, but odds are someone else by that name exists) have an email that not only started slave, but also ended with a number for that final dehumanising touch. slave384@eq.edu.au.

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• ininewcrow@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Corrected to …

  fingermeg@cwu.edu

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  • cley_faye@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    “I don’t understand, that user keeps asking me to fix their email, and they’re more angry each time!”

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• MNByChoice@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  When I handled these, I always checked for poor taste collisions. If found, granted an immediate exception.

  She would be Megan.finger@.

  Fuck the old systems with hard character limits.

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  • Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Firstname.lastname@address is pretty much a universal standard, why would you use anything else?

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    • Takumidesh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      My work does first initial last name, which even internally results in tons of jsmith2@company.com.

      I don’t really get why I can’t just choose from a list of accepted combinations or something.

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    • dingus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      You’d think that every place should do this, but for whatever reason a lot of them do weird shit like in the OP. Not sure why that is. Maybe they are afraid of the characters running too long or something like that for people with long names?

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• bigkahuna1986@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  RIP her inbox.

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  • NatakuNox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Image

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• Empricorn@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Megan Bennett Finger
  Central Washington University

  Ms. Finger,

  Per your request, we can converted your email address to our alternate format: [Surname][Middle Initial]Last (to denote the spelled-out name)[First 2 letters of forename]. Your new email address is now fingerblastme@cwu.edu and your case is now closed.

  Thank you,
  CWU Support

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  • BenLeMan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Image Finger bang bang into your life!

    Seriously though, my experience with requesting a name change from the university IT dept. has been very positive.

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  • dingus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I love this

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• thewitchslayer@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Worked at a company where emails were first initial then last name. So there was a guy named Shawn Lutz so his email was SLutz@email.com

  It seemed I was the only one really aware of that since he almost never sent emails

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  • thermal_shock@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Best one I got is c. ries, cries@company.com lol

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    • Jtee@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I had a P. Hart who was stuck with phart@company

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  • f4f4f4f4f4f4f4f4@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    We had a slutski here, too 😂

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• CuddlyCassowary@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  There was an Alan Buser at my last company…yep, abuser@company.com. Not only did he have to live with that as his email, but he would occasionally receive reports that definitely should have gone to HR. Eventually they let us alias it to alan@company, but as far as I know when I left he was still getting anything sent to abuser@company too. He was such a nice guy too!

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  • Xatolos@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Reminds me of the search suggestions I’ve seen about suggested search topic:

    “Jalen Hurts Fiancee”

    First thought was that this Jalen person must have gone all Sean Diddy on his fiancee. Then I found out that his last name is Hurts.

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• toofpic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  As Nikita Grigorev, I was given an allcaps username made out of first two letters of my name and two letters of surname. I complained, but I was told that the process is a process. They changed for the ANAL guy before, but not for me. So I was called basically a slur for two years

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• SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Gosh, I would have never figured this out without the giant useless red line!

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• StThicket@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  My wife’s name sounds like Annette Alonso (not her real name - this one is made up) , and her new employer had standardised emails the first two letters from the first name and the first two letters from last name. You bet she was furious with anal@company.com, given that she was going to be working with clients. She ultimately got it changed to anna@company.com

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  • TheProtagonist@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I think “anal@company.com” is pretty unique and easy to remember.

    • Best Regards, Tiriakos Tsoprano

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• Chivera@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I read that as @uwu

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  • jia_tan@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    :3

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• user224@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  OK, if you insist, I will.

  $ finger me
  Login: me                               Name: mikhail esteban
  Directory: /sdf/udd/m/me                Shell: /bin/ksh
  Never logged in.
  New mail received Sat Feb 22 13:32 2025 (UTC)
       Unread since Tue Feb  4 07:35 2025 (UTC)
  No Plan.
  

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  It even tells people where they can do it!

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• ultrahamster64@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Thank you for the arrow I would’ve never guess myself

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• MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  This scheme makes almost every username sound awful. They new what they’re doing.

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• Sanctus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I know how to fix this, just had the 3rd letter of her first name.

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