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!"
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.
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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mp3@lemmy.ca · 75 pts · 3y
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 · 79 pts · 3y
Oh, didn't the domain
somesoftwarecorp.comgive it away?mp3@lemmy.ca · 29 pts · 3y
Do I really need to put
/son my top comment..darcy@sh.itjust.works · 28 pts · 3y
something something poes law
mp3@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 3y
touché
001100010010@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 50 pts · 3y
olympicyes@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 3y
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 · 11 pts · 3y
joby@programming.dev · -1 pts · 3y
Thankfully, a.ryan@example.com and aryan@example.com should be delivered to the same inbox.
ramjambamalam@lemmy.ca · 34 pts · 3y
There is no requirement to do so, although GMail's adoption of this non-standard seems to have popularized the practice.
joby@programming.dev · 7 pts · 3y
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@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 3y
Hilbert Tlerston never stood a chance
mp3@lemmy.ca · 15 pts · 3y
And that poor receptionist, Penelope Nisbet
samus7070@programming.dev · 1 pts · 3y
A place I worked at actually did this to a person named Diane Cupps.
Matthew@programming.dev · 5 pts · 3y
Hideo Lerch
TheBat@lemmy.world · -2 pts · 3y
lvxferre@lemmy.ml · 31 pts · 3y
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 · 19 pts · 3y
Please believe me lol
vaxpy@mujico.org · 12 pts · 3y
That happened
lazyvar@programming.dev · 31 pts · 3y
You don’t know Some Software Corp and their world famous website somesoftwarecorp.com?
trafguy@midwest.social · 2 pts · 3y
PlutoParty@programming.dev · 6 pts · 3y
That domain was registered in 2020.
Maudfer@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 3y
Of course it didn't happen, it's a joke lol
dreadedsemi@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 3y
Please believe me sounds like I don't know how to manually set emails. No way it cannot be done.
KaladinStormblessed@lemm.ee · 11 pts · 3y
Woosh
dreadedsemi@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y
Damn, I didn't notice that.
aloso@programming.dev · 8 pts · 3y
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.
squaresinger@feddit.de · 3 pts · 3y
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.
CookieJarObserver@sh.itjust.works · 0 pts · 3y