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That beats my similar anecdote.

At a high-profile place, I too used an automated IT thing to make a first-name email alias for myself, and there was a semi-famous person there with the same first name.

It played out much like this story: I started getting email for the VIP, so I told them, and switched it over to them. I don't recall them being as gracious as Steve Jobs that time. Then, the only other interaction I had with them was them during my time there, was them declining my request to participate in something. :)




I did something very similar, but the effects were different - people who intended to send mail to other people with my first name had my new distribution list (I created a distribution list with myname@company.com with myself as the only member) pop up as the first thing in their autocomplete.

I started to receive mail across the entire company for people who typed "myname<TAB>".

I deleted the distribution list a few minutes later.


You did the right thing handing over the alias, but yeah, getting the cold shoulder afterward stings a little




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