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[–] ryan@the.coolest.zone 55 points 2 years ago

At my old job we had a system of first initial + last name, or if that was already taken then the first two characters of first name + last name, etc. A ticket came into us from an Lo[...] Li who had some concerns about being loli@bignamecompany.com. We obviously gave him an alias.

[–] Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 24 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Used to work on an AS400 inventory system. First 5 letters of your last name+ first letter of your first name. New hire named Sean Moroney ended up with "morons" as his handle and they wouldn't change it. Felt so bad for the dude lol

[–] ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 5 points 2 years ago

Ahhh... AS400... what a beautiful system.

[–] just2043@lemm.ee 24 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Always think of Shawna Hart for the first initial last name type of aliases.

[–] dandroid@dandroid.app 6 points 2 years ago

I used to own the Xbox account KevinShart. I haven't logged into it in like 10 years though, so I wouldn't be surprised if they deleted the account.

[–] Turious@leaf.dance 19 points 2 years ago (6 children)

I fairly regularly work with someone who, in their organization's alias scheme, was given the email address of an 80s cartoon villain. It rules so much and I doubt she's even in on the joke.

[–] Ghoti@geddit.social 10 points 2 years ago

Stacy Keletor?

[–] lingh0e@lemmy.film 3 points 2 years ago

Carrie Obracommander?

[–] Triple_B@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 years ago

Stephanie Keletor?

[–] chahk@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Jamie Afar?

[–] ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 2 points 2 years ago

Barry Atman?

[–] lingh0e@lemmy.film 0 points 2 years ago

Carrie Obracommander?

[–] christian@lemmy.ml 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I saw one of these in action! I never actually knew her, but she was cc'ed in a lot of the emails I was getting. Our emails were first initial, middle initial, first three letters of last name, then extra digits if needed. J. E. Lloyd had "jello@..."

[–] PeWu@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago

That's funny and kinda cute name

[–] chahk@beehaw.org 15 points 2 years ago

First letter of first name + last name @ company dot com. They made an exception for Wendy Horowitz.

[–] bobbytables@feddit.de 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

One of the systems we currently use at work just shortens the first name to 1-4 characters and adds the last name. I still have to figure out on what criteria.

The bad thing about it is that it sometimes changes names to the other gender - think Erica to Eric. I never realized how often that could be done in my language by chance and it only affects female names.

Normally that would matter much but three weeks ago they established that account name as our new matrix chat handles...

[–] Bankenstein@feddit.de 15 points 2 years ago

Back in the day when a lot of things things were capped at 8 characters, my uncle used to work for a company where they had (first 7 letters of last name) + (first letter of first name).

At least until they hired a woman named Margaret Manspera. Luckily, mansperm@company.com was spotted in advance, and she was given margaret@company.com instead.

[–] Uprise42@kbin.social 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

We’ve had a couple funny ones where I work. I provision users in our call centers phone system.

afriend@company.com is the most innocent one I’ve come across. Emails are only internal for us so no one really says anything since customers don’t see them

[–] esc27@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago

Worst I’ve seen was “ruffies”, best was “lovle1”

[–] PeWu@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago
[–] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 9 points 2 years ago

My favourites, first initial + surname:

[–] quicken@aussie.zone 5 points 2 years ago

I used to work with a dflowers@company and told him it was the best email address. He didn't get the joke. 😥

But then there was also a guy called Richard Face...