Submitted 7 hours ago by Gork@lemm.ee to [deleted]
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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
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.
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!
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.
Corrected to …
fingermeg@cwu.edu
“I don’t understand, that user keeps asking me to fix their email, and they’re more angry each time!”
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
Best one I got is c. ries, cries@company.com lol
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
Gosh, I would have never figured this out without the giant useless red line!
Thank you for the arrow I would’ve never guess myself
I know how to fix this, just had the 3rd letter of her first name.
MNByChoice@midwest.social 1 hour 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.
Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 1 hour ago
Firstname.lastname@address is pretty much a universal standard, why would you use anything else?
Takumidesh@lemmy.world 47 minutes 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.