Did he take these screenshots decades ago and hold onto them all this time?
Same also wondering this. Also wondering why so few are wondering about them.
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#282i love this. A startup I was at during early COVID times got acquired into Hewlett Packard Enterprise, so we all became HPE employees with HPE addresses. There was a similar form there to request "ryancnelson"@hpe, etc... One of my co-workers got cute and asked for "root@hpe.com" .... And boy, there's a lot of cron jobs running at HP.
They must have learned from your experience. When we were acquired by HPE they did not let us choose and our director of engineering got an email address that misspelled his name... fixing it involved him being locked out of all systems while the people trying to fix it emailed someone else with a similar name about it. His advice for other team members in the same spot was "if you don't like your email address, do n…
I was once issued %%my full first name and last name%%@company.
It was insane to type that, and no one could really work with it. And we had several alias domains.
An IT director actually came to me and said “we can shorten that if you’d like”.
Sure. I ended up with lastname@company. That created a lot of chaos for a few days because my initial username had already been fully propagated. These were the days before niceties like SCIM, so everything was in-house glue, manual work, or obscure third party solutions.
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this reminds me when I was at a course from a big software company in the late 90s, and we had problems setting up the system at first because some executive in Germany had named his machine localhost.
How was that mess ever fixed?
I guess they contacted the executive and had them change the name?
on edit: I do remember we had to come back to the course the next day, so it took a day to get it fixed.
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They must have learned from your experience. When we were acquired by HPE they did not let us choose and our director of engineering got an email address that misspelled his name... fixing it involved him being locked out of all systems while the people trying to fix it emailed someone else with a similar name about it. His advice for other team members in the same spot was "if you don't like your email address, do n…
Same story for me at a game studio bought by Microsoft. It was simply not worth the hassle. As an employee I still had to sit through the same customer support as anyone else, talking to some person at an Indian call center with a bad line. After some failed attempts I just gave up and lived with my misspelled address.
My spouse is principal architect for a platform made by a large cloud vendor.
It takes an Act of Congress, a Papal Conclave who produces white smoke on the first vote, Divine Intervention, and Interdiction by a Vice President, all offered in triplicate upon the altar of subpar IT support organizations, to get a ticket closed -with- a resolution in less than a year. If it’s not something they already have a script for it’s almost certainly impossible as far as IT support is concerned.
The company makes billions of dollars a year, employs tens of thousands of people, and they still can’t craft a competent and empowered IT support organization. Even if just for their own developers and technical experts.
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"Engineers are just numbers on a sheet, to be exploited, chewed and cast aside when they eventually burnout." This is exactly how Epic the Electronic Medical Record company operates, but on new college grads instead of Engineers.
Most of the industry and most series C/D startups are like that. It’s a sad state boys and girls. Once you’ve been here long enough, disillusionment sets in. Corporate greed, (em)powered by shareholder greed, takes top priority.
What do you do then?
I’ve been out of the work rat race for over 3 years now, but I’ll have to go back within a year… and I’m dreading it.
It’s my most valuable skill set, I just want to throw up when I see what the industry has become and I don’t know how to deal with it.
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I friend of mine was an MD advisor to a bio-tech startup. They wanted her to sign off on things that she didn't feel comfortable signing. I guess she wasn't too happy with them as she gave up a $30K severance so she could disparage them. :-)
Sometimes the knowledge that they’re sweating after you reject the offer is worth quite a lot.
and maybe they change their behavior :) the sacrifice does have value.
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>you shouldnt have turned down because it was way too small for a gag order You're saying that if someone offers me a small amount of money I should accept it, but if someone offers me a large amount of money I should maybe reject it? That sounds backwards to me.
I think the idea is, assuming you have already resolved to disparage the company in that case, rightfully you should not take the money regardless of the amount. but, if it's a tiny amount of money (tiny enough to indicate that the company probably isn't going to bother coming after you in court) then you can maybe consider taking it anyway and accepting the miniscule risk whereas receiving a vast sum of money would…
yeah just game theory. their money was so small that it was meaningless for its intended purpose.
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There are a lot of stories like this where people accidentally get emails and then not read them. Why wouldn't you read the email?
What possible upside is there to reading it? The potential downside is getting fired. I’d delete it too
Really feels like the sender should be the one at risk and not the receiver.