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Email Aliases

Jake3/13/2008

I’ve have never in my life seen grown folks act like some of the people where I work regarding mail aliases. Personally I think mail aliases should be firstname.lastname or first intial lastname..Something like joe.blow@work.com or jblow@work.com. I love hearing the arguement “Well I’ve had this alias for X years with Y company.” My response, “Great! Go back and work for them if it’s so damn important to you.” I don’t care that your customers know you as whatever..I’d be willing to bet that if you *tell* them your new email or perhaps, and this is a stretch, give them a business card with your new email *gasp*, they just might be able to track you down in this crazy, zany world we live in…And I don’t buy the “I’ve lost so much business because I don’t have my special pony email address”.. Bullshit…The only reason you’ve lost business is you haven’t made the effort to *communicate* your new email address to your customer…The world has rules, company’s have rules..If you don’t like them, quit.

I find non-descriptive aliases annoying and unprofessional..Something like jfw@work.com drives me insane. You are not at home!! This is not your mailserver!! You work for a publicly traded company!! If these guys spent even half as much time *doing* their damn jobs instead of bitching about a goddamn email alias the entire company would be making a lot more money. Times change and company’s have to grow up…And in growing up you can simply give every user whatever the hell they want…Things just don’t work like that.

When I was in the Army I was told by my platoon leader that there are 4 ways to do things:

1. Your way
2. My Way
3. The Army Way
4. The Highway

And he said your choice is any combo of 3 and 4.

Yes this is a rant…These are my views and mine alone. If you want my “nice” reply come work for my company and catch me between the hours of 8am - 5pm. Otherwise STFU and GBTW..

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