• @[email protected]
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          102 years ago

          I mean yeah, but it happens even more with the naming scheme in the original post. Most companies just add a number when that happens. Predictable naming schemes, at least as the default, make it a lot easier to find people in large companies.

            • @[email protected]
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              32 years ago

              Sorry, I meant professional company emails. Obviously people can make up whatever private gmail account they want. And people can state their preferred name, but the fact that if I call my coworker “Josh” and their last name is “Jacobson”, the fact that I can type in Josh.Jacobson and find them is extremely helpful, and I don’t get why companies would complicate that by making it “jojacko” .

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        42 years ago

        Because 30 years ago we didn’t have enough letters or something and people stick with tradition because change is apparently really hard to do.