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lazyvar to Programmer HumorEnglish · 2 years ago

When IT insists on autogenerated email addresses…

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When IT insists on autogenerated email addresses…

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lazyvar to Programmer HumorEnglish · 2 years ago
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  • m-p{3}@lemmy.ca
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    Fake, there’s no way the sysadmin wouldn’t throw the HR rep who signed the policy under the bus (without some CYA documentation prior).

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      Oh, didn’t the domain somesoftwarecorp.com give it away?

      • m-p{3}@lemmy.ca
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        Do I really need to put /s on my top comment…

        • darcy@sh.itjust.works
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          something something poes law

          • m-p{3}@lemmy.ca
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            touché

  • 001100 010010@lemmy.dbzer0.comBanned
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    CEO gets “randomly assigned” the name of a ww2 German politician… 💀

    • olympicyes@lemmy.world
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      FirstInitial LastName is common format. I knew someone named Aaron Ryan who got stuck with the email address “[email protected]”.

      • 001100 010010@lemmy.dbzer0.comBanned
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        Just one dot dividing the name would make it a lot better

        • joby
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          Thankfully, [email protected] and [email protected] should be delivered to the same inbox.

          • ramjambamalam@lemmy.ca
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            There is no requirement to do so, although GMail’s adoption of this non-standard seems to have popularized the practice.

            • joby
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              I stand corrected. I haven’t used anything other than proton mail in a while and it works there. I thought it was part of the standard

              • 16percent@burggit.moe
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                deleted by creator

    • PoorlyWrittenPapyrus@lemmy.world
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      Hilbert Tlerston never stood a chance

      • m-p{3}@lemmy.ca
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        And that poor receptionist, Penelope Nisbet

        • samus7070
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          A place I worked at actually did this to a person named Diane Cupps.

    • Matthew
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      Hideo Lerch

      • Bumblefumble@beehaw.org
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        Ah yes, the famous Nazi leader Hidler.

        • abclop99@beehaw.org
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          It would be “hiler”

    • This is fine🔥🐶☕🔥@lemmy.world
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      Adam Olfano? What about him?

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    Even if this is a joke, this is a great example of something that happens all the time: people avoiding responsibility by blaming some chunk of software. The electronic equivalent of “No, sir! I didn’t kill that person. The butter knife did it!”

  • om1k@lemmy.world
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    Please believe me lol

  • vaxpy@mujico.org
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    That happened

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      You don’t know Some Software Corp and their world famous website somesoftwarecorp.com?

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        deleted by creator

        • PlutoParty
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          That domain was registered in 2020.

    • Maudfer@lemmy.world
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      Of course it didn’t happen, it’s a joke lol

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    Please believe me sounds like I don’t know how to manually set emails. No way it cannot be done.

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      Woosh

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        Damn, I didn’t notice that.

    • Aloso
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      I guess it cannot be done if their IT infrastructure was not designed with that use case in mind. Although I’m not familiar with human resource management software, I don’t find this hard to believe at all.

      Also, you’ll understand what Biron Tchaikovsky meant with “Please believe me” when you look at their email address. They already tried to do it, and probably complained many times before giving up.

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    The place I work at does something like this, and there was actually quite a bit of trouble when a second person with the same abbreviation joined. The responsible guy seriously suggested fireing the new guy because the policies didn’t account for duplications.

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    Great

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