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This post is particularly funny to me as well as I also had a very common name@apple.com email and I would often get sensitive emails, including travel info, sent to me - despite the fact that I had worked there longer than most peers.

I eventually grew so annoyed with it that I ended up surrendering the email to said person as it was a losing battle.




A colleague had an email when they started that was very similar to an SVP. When they highlighted the confusion, it got fixed promptly.


I have a colleague in a big tech firm whose email address is derived from his initials, resulting in the glorious: "svp@<company>.com"

Needless to say, he sometimes gets emails he shouldn't.


If anything, all it taught me was that nobody at the company would bother to check directory before emailing.

Now that the company uses Slack however, I imagine there’s a lot less confusion.


Was it this guy?

https://xkcd.com/1279/




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