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@[email protected] to Programmer [email protected]English • 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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  • Lvxferre
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    31•2 years 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!”

  • Square Singer
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    3•2 years ago

    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.

  • m-p{3}
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    81•2 years ago

    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
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      90•2 years ago

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

      • m-p{3}
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        31•2 years ago

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

        • darcy
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          29•2 years ago

          something something poes law

          • m-p{3}
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            7•2 years ago

            touché

  • @[email protected]
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    15•2 years ago

    That happened

    • @[email protected]OP
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      40•2 years ago

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

      • @[email protected]
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        2•2 years ago

        deleted by creator

        • @[email protected]
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          6•2 years ago

          That domain was registered in 2020.

    • @[email protected]
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      13•2 years ago

      Of course it didn’t happen, it’s a joke lol

  • 001100 010010
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    57•2 years ago

    CEO gets “randomly assigned” the name of a ww2 German politician… 💀

    • This is fine🔥🐶☕🔥
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      11•2 years ago

      Adam Olfano? What about him?

    • @[email protected]
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      2 years ago

      Hilbert Tlerston never stood a chance

      • m-p{3}
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        2 years ago

        And that poor receptionist, Penelope Nisbet

        • @[email protected]
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          1•2 years ago

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

    • @[email protected]
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      7•2 years ago

      Hideo Lerch

      • @[email protected]
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        11•2 years ago

        Ah yes, the famous Nazi leader Hidler.

        • abclop99
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          8•2 years ago

          It would be “hiler”

    • @[email protected]
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      35•2 years ago

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

      • 001100 010010
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        11•2 years ago

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

        • @[email protected]
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          2•2 years ago

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

          • @[email protected]
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            36•2 years ago

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

            • @[email protected]
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              8•2 years ago

              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

  • @[email protected]
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    0•2 years ago

    Great

  • @[email protected]
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    19•2 years ago

    Please believe me lol

  • @[email protected]
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    8•2 years ago

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

    • Aloso
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      9•2 years ago

      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.

    • @[email protected]
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      11•2 years ago

      Woosh

      • @[email protected]
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        3•2 years ago

        Damn, I didn’t notice that.

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