Re:Email addresses are not good 'permanent' identifiers for ...
by hibikir on Sunday December 31, 2023 @11:06AM
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My "favorite" of those email changes is the self-inflicted contractor postfix change. I've worked at places where a conversion to employee forces the creation of a completely new account, and lacking a simple, single permission systems, the act of converting means spending a good 3 weeks trying to get access to systems one had access the day before.
This is extra fun when the company in question does a lot of their business offering complicated accounts to customers, and has an external facing identity solution that deals with all of this easily: just not for their own workers, including those maintaining the external-facing identity system.
This is extra fun when the company in question does a lot of their business offering complicated accounts to customers, and has an external facing identity solution that deals with all of this easily: just not for their own workers, including those maintaining the external-facing identity system.