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[–] 001100010010@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

CEO gets "randomly assigned" the name of a ww2 German politician... 💀

[–] olympicyes@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

FirstInitial LastName is common format. I knew someone named Aaron Ryan who got stuck with the email address “aryan@company.com”.

[–] 001100010010@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just one dot dividing the name would make it a lot better

[–] joby@programming.dev 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thankfully, a.ryan@example.com and aryan@example.com should be delivered to the same inbox.

[–] ramjambamalam@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

There is no requirement to do so, although GMail's adoption of this non-standard seems to have popularized the practice.

[–] lvxferre@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

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!"

[–] mp3@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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).

[–] aloso@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] mp3@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do I really need to put /s on my top comment..

[–] darcy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

something something poes law