When your manager isn't supporting you, develop a manager crew

Re:When your manager isn't supporting you, develop a manager... by manmal on Monday January 15, 2018 @10:59AM (#16151249)

IMO the main reason is that your kids bear the father’s last name. Convention has it that kids bear the father‘s name, and this „works better“ if everybody in the family has the same name. I‘m not saying it is good or anything.. but this is the reason why many in my country (Austria) marry before the first child arrives.

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Re:When your manager isn't supporting you, develop a manager... by Aardwolf on Monday January 15, 2018 @11:27AM (#16151443)

So in Belgium most people don't change names, and it causes zero problems and makes it seem weird why anybody would ever do such a thing, I mean when I first heard about this I was totally baffled: What about your email address? Your publications? Your personal projects? Your github? It's crazyness!

If you can remember different first names, why couldn't you remember different last names?

As for kids: it's pretty simple, pick a name of one of the parents. Nothing confusing about it. A name (first+last combo) is an identifier of a person.

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Re:When your manager isn't supporting you, develop a manager... by chrisseaton on Monday January 15, 2018 @11:29AM (#16151455)

> it seem weird why anybody would ever do such a thing

Are you seriously baffled why people choose to do symbolic things to show their love for each other and show how they are bringing their lives together, even when it isn't convenient to do so?

If you genuinely are then I can't imagine how you are living day-to-day in human society because people do all kind of things like that in all parts of society.

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Re:When your manager isn't supporting you, develop a manager... by Aardwolf on Monday January 15, 2018 @11:34AM (#16151491)

The writer of the original article seemed to be not particularly happy to have to "deal with that experience", so was it a choice, or was it an expectation of society there?

It's not a constructive expectation of a society to have imho. A name is an identifier of a person. You need a first and last one to have less same-name clashes.

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Re:When your manager isn't supporting you, develop a manager... by chrisseaton on Monday January 15, 2018 @11:35AM (#16151502)

You'd have to ask her. She may have wanted to change her name, and was just disappointed that the process wasn't easier, such as publishers having some kind of system to help you, or something like that maybe. But yes I guess it's possible her mother nagged her to do it or some other kind of social pressure, that's possible. But as I say you'd have to ask her.

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Re:When your manager isn't supporting you, develop a manager... by TheCoelacanth on Monday January 15, 2018 @03:14PM (#16153042)

> What about your email address? Your publications? Your personal projects? Your github?

What portion of people do you think have any of those other than the email address (which for many people's personal addresses doesn't even include their full name)? For my wife at least, the email address is what convinced her to change her name because it made it possible for her to get the address [email protected].

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