this post was submitted on 29 Jul 2023
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[–] [email protected] 2 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!"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 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 “[email protected]”.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ah yes, the famous Nazi leader Hidler.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It would be “hiler”

[–] [email protected] 1 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).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

something something poes law

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year 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.