When IT insists on autogenerated email addresses…

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.

You can tell it's fake based on the fact the signatures don't have 3 images shilling whatever internal feel-good initiative upper management is shilling this month. Those are great for email 2 ticketing systems ... sigh.

I hate my life.

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

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.

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...

My favourites, first initial + surname:

• hadcock@example.com
• penis@example.com

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...