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I was once issued %%my full first name and last name%%@company.

It was insane to type that, and no one could really work with it. And we had several alias domains.

An IT director actually came to me and said “we can shorten that if you’d like”.

Sure. I ended up with lastname@company. That created a lot of chaos for a few days because my initial username had already been fully propagated. These were the days before niceties like SCIM, so everything was in-house glue, manual work, or obscure third party solutions.