Honestly, IT should just really ask “What do you want your email address to be?” and not auto-assign. Just give IT a general alias so that your chat name, email address, source control account, or any other account, can all be the same. The issue is that some people are going to want the same exact alias and then that creates a back and forth but at bigger places, IT should be able to cut out some time to make a system to check if a username is taken and just send that to new hires. For smaller places, collisions like that are less likely to happen.
Literally every company I worked in assigned name.surname@company.com, I don’t know why people would complicate their life by doing literally anything else.
You’ve not worked in large companies then because people end up having the same first and last names as each other. Collision with names is literally unavoidable in large companies. Also for people who don’t have a single last name, it can get confusing. Do you do First.Last.Last@company or just tell them to pick a favorite last name? (Which is potentially difficult for some people for personal reasons.) Honestly, just give people a chance to tell you what they want to be called, and this all smooths over.
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.
Company I most recently joined gave me name.surname1@company.com. Unfortunately there was someone else with the exact same name combination. Feels bad man.
Always think of Shawna Hart for the first initial last name type of aliases.
I fairly regularly work with someone who, in their organization’s alias scheme, was given the email address of an 80s cartoon villain. It rules so much and I doubt she’s even in on the joke.
Back in the day when a lot of things things were capped at 8 characters, my uncle used to work for a company where they had (first 7 letters of last name) + (first letter of first name).
At least until they hired a woman named Margaret Manspera. Luckily, mansperm@company.com was spotted in advance, and she was given margaret@company.com instead.
First letter of first name + last name @ company dot com. They made an exception for Wendy Horowitz.
