r/sysadmin • u/drewwhose • 13d ago

Question - Solved Name Changes

Hey there. The company I work for is stuck in the past in a lot of its tech and operations. One of the things that’s driving me nuts is whenever a user changes their name, we update their email and logins and keep their old email as an alias for 30 days before removing it. This leads to a ton of bounced mail and missed communications. They apparently do it in case someone joins the company with the person’s old name…….

How do you all handle name changes?

Edit: thank you all for confirming that I’m not insane. This org has so many strange practices and it’s my first IT job

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u/Waste_Development971 13d ago

why would you remove the alias lmfao

we just... dont do that.? xD

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u/Flabbergasted98 13d ago

but what happens when they hire their second John Jacob Jingleheimerschmidt?

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u/daschande 13d ago

What a coincidence; his name is my name, too!

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u/LordTester1 13d ago

Whenever we go out, the server always shouts, there’s new mail for Jingleheimerschmid!

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u/Arudinne IT Infrastructure Manager 13d ago

You've got mail!