I can verify that CA would adjust the userid if the resulting userid was
'inappropriate'. One of my coworkers was such a case. Unfortunately, its
been too long ago and I can't remember the specifics. When CA bought our
company and told us the new rules, one guy just busted out laughing and
it took us a minute to figure it out.
Mine was THITO01 and from that point on, everyone just called me Thito.
(Tee-tow)
Tony Thigpen
Phil Smith III wrote on 7/13/23 5:37 PM:
Jay Maynard wrote:
The one I use was formed by taking the first four non-vowels of the last
name and then the first and second initials.
So I'd be SMTHPH? Ick. I know, I'd get used to it, but.
That SMIPH03 really was my ID at CA after Sterling bought them. I didn't mind,
the 03 was perfect! Highest number we had was BERMA16, which I assume got run
up by all the Mark and Marie Bergmanns and Bergdorfs and the like out there on
Lon Guyland.
Ain't no perfect scheme, of course. We have someone here whose name is quite
uncommon-but there's another one of him in the company, so he's got a 2 in his
ID (yeah, I guess they go right to 2, so my PSMITH1 example was bogus, or at
least would be bogus here; of course if they were C programmers, the one after
PSMITH would be PSMITH0).
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