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Post by djdjnkdjdj » Fri, May 16, 2025, 3:34 AM UTC

TheNewsIsHere wrote: post #282

jrockway wrote: post #132

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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…

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 ni…