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[–] [email protected] 73 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] 78 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

something something poes law

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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

[–] olympicyes 28 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] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

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

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

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year 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

[–] PoorlyWrittenPapyrus 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Hilbert Tlerston never stood a chance

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

And that poor receptionist, Penelope Nisbet

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

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Hideo Lerch

[–] TheBat -2 points 1 year ago

Adam Olfano? What about him?

[–] [email protected] 30 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!"

[–] om1k 19 points 1 year ago

Please believe me lol

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] Maudfer 7 points 1 year ago

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

[–] dreadedsemi 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] dreadedsemi 3 points 1 year ago

Damn, I didn't notice that.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year 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] 3 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.