Lamont Granquist wrote: > When I was at Amazon it was decided on by you and your manager. > > Some people used their initials which was actually remarkably easy to > remember because it was different from most of the rest of the people. > One person used the first initial of their first name (single character) > which was also very easy to remember. I got to use my first name (which > probably wouldn't have been useful if i was named 'john', but i'm not). > Some users had first-name+last-initial when that worked, some people with > easy to spell last names used first-initial+last-name. Some people used > nicknames. Generally it worked way better than the enforced > first-initial+last-name we have at my current job (which has all kinds of > exceptions anyway -- but never for all the people with entirely > unpronouncable/unspellable last names). >
That's all fine until: -the new CEO wants his email to be john, yeah, john is already taken, and yes the policy is first come first server, but... he is the CEO (hahaha, I actually typed he/she, and then realise that wasn't working too well). -sooner or later, people will be complaining how manager X is not fun, and how he won't let you pick an email that's fun but appropriate. Within a months you have to draft an "appropriate and fair email id policy" that's hell to enforce, and fighting will smart pants who fine wholes in your policy ! At the end of the day, you are a staff working for an entity, sta...@entityname.com reflects that perfectly, it also sets the tone that this is NOT your private email. -- Yves. http://www.sollers.ca/ _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lopsa.org http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
