Naming conventions

[crazycatlady.livejournal.com]

"Ok, so I can't use my old email of *initials* anymore."
"That email will still work, but we're really trying to encourage people to use *firstname.lastname@x.y* convention. It helps people outside the business remember our email."
"Ok, so firstname.lastname@x.y."
"Yes."
"Ok, so there's a dot between my first and last name."
"...yes."
"No initials."
"No."
"So...a dot."
"Between the first and last names, yes."
"No middle initial."
"Not at all."
Repeat ad infinitum.


Honestly, was I not being clear, or did he want an interpretive dance on our new email addresses?

Comments

[dave-iii.livejournal.com]

Dude wants his initial, conflabbit. He probably figures if he annoys you enough you'll give it to him.

I can understand, actually, I use a middle initial AND a generational suffix, and am disinclined to give them up without a fight (my name being in the top ten for both given and surname lists, thus needing some distinctive qualifiers) but outright asking for them seems like a better plan than Mr. Initial Guy, here.

[spiker-uk.livejournal.com]

*nods* Agreed. I have quite serious problems at my new place of work (multinational) as there seem to be a lot of "Spiker McSpikerson"s or very close equivalents. I usually get at least one misdirected email a week!

[crazycatlady.livejournal.com]

Well, the issue we were running into with the initials was that we might have multiple JJSs or MKLs, and we'd have to start tacking on numbers and it just started getting ridiculous.

[boobookittifukk.livejournal.com]

You'd be surprised at how interpretive dance can make things like this so much easier to understand.

[crazycatlady.livejournal.com]

Espeically when done over the phone? XD

[sethb.livejournal.com]

Especially when a large stick features prominently.

[boobookittifukk.livejournal.com]

Oh definitely. It's so powerful that it doesn't even need to be seen. I'm in awe of it. ^_^