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.
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.