[reaperducer]

Why should your individual identity be hardwired to your current location or department?

When you have a workforce the size of IBM it makes sense.

At my last company, with about 300 workers, we had three people with the same first name and last name. Two had the same middle initials.

At my current company, pre-pandemic, even though my department was only 50 people, we still had two with the same first, middle, and last names. They ended up being "1" and "2" in their e-mail addresses.

If your company has a large number of first, second, or third-generation immigrants from Central or South America in it, you run into name collisions all the time.

[syshum]

>At my last company, with about 300 workers, we had three people with the same first name and last name. Two had the same middle initials.

Just assign everyone a salted sha1 hash of their name and employee number as user name and email address

<<evil laugh>>