Timeline for Being asked to change my last name (in HR system) to work with IT systems
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| Apr 3, 2022 at 5:58 | comment | added | user1751825 | @BrianDrake I don't think there's anything intentionally racist about it eiher. I think it's just ignorance and indifference on their part, assuming that all last names can be adequately represented with just aphabetic characters. I've encountered this kind of thinking when I was a kid at school, when other kids thought it was weird that my name had an apostrophe, and maintained that names should not look like this. I have a common Irish name, but I lived in an area, where most people were of English decent. | |
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| Apr 2, 2022 at 8:50 | comment | added | Brian Drake | @s.alem (1) I was following existing comments that suggest a person’s actual name (not username) is a part of their “identity”. (2) I don’t see how anything I have written indicates “racism”, and I certainly never intended to indicate that. I agree that the real problem is likely laziness (or just ignorance). | |
| Apr 2, 2022 at 2:08 | comment | added | s.alem | @BrianDrake I think it is a bit far-stretched to see this as an identity challenge. The proposed solution was stupid. But I feel like the reason might be more related to laziness than racism. Also other colleagues having special characters in their names makes me think that this particular IT person may be very inexperienced with the system or at least this aspect of the system. | |
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| Apr 1, 2022 at 21:55 | comment | added | Stephan Branczyk | @user1751825, Either way, it doesn't matter. If they solved the issue with your coworkers (having the same apostrophes), they can use the same workaround for your name. The burden is on them to explain to you why your case is different. The burden is not on you to fix the problem for them. And if they don't know why there is a difference, they need to find out why. Most likely, there is a way to make the change in one location only. | |
| Apr 1, 2022 at 21:19 | comment | added | user1751825 | Also I've provided some clarrification in the question. I don't mean that they want me to change my actual "real world" name. They want me to change my name in the company HR systems, so in all company records my name wil essentially be wrong. | |
| Apr 1, 2022 at 20:45 | comment | added | user1751825 | It's not a joke unfortunately. Posting this on 1st April was entirely coincidental, but the issue has been ongoing since I started at the company a few weeks ago, and the first comment about changing my name happened a few days ago. | |
| Apr 1, 2022 at 20:32 | comment | added | J... | @StephanBranczyk OP also insists this isn't a joke either. My word, I'm sick of this non-holiday for all the BS it causes... | |
| Apr 1, 2022 at 20:24 | comment | added | Stephan Branczyk | @J..., Some pranks are based on a grain of truth. That doesn't mean anything. | |
| Apr 1, 2022 at 20:07 | comment | added | J... | It's not a joke. We had an Irish guy start work 7 or 8 years ago and our whole ERP system broke for the exact same reason - some crufty old DB code that wasn't sanitizing inputs. It took about five minutes to fix. It's a classic Little Bobby Tables story. | |
| Apr 1, 2022 at 20:03 | comment | added | bob | Just to be 100% clear, if this was a prank, it's not funny, creative, or anything positive--just unprofessional. The rest of my comment about bureaucracies was a general rant and not about OP's situation. | |
| Apr 1, 2022 at 20:01 | comment | added | bob | Agreed--that was a commentary on OP's situation (if it was a prank) plus an unrelated rant about bureaucracies. Sorry if that wasn't clear. :( | |
| Apr 1, 2022 at 18:48 | comment | added | fqq | @bob if this is a prank it's not fun or creative at all | |
| Apr 1, 2022 at 17:12 | comment | added | bob | It would be a very unprofessional thing to do but in some offices might be a prank. Though if the office is bureaucratic I doubt it. Bureaucracies tend to be humorless blobs that resist change, fun, and all creativity. :) | |
| Apr 1, 2022 at 16:03 | comment | added | Brian Drake | @s.alem I agree that it’s offensive. It’s asking someone to change their identity in order to exercise their legal rights (to access something that the employer has a legal obligation to provide), both of which are offensive. | |
| Apr 1, 2022 at 14:12 | comment | added | s.alem | @rvs It probably depends a bit on the joker, but wouldn't call it really offensive generally. A funny retaliation would be suggesting to change your name to IT guy's name imho. If it turns out that it is not a joke, you could scold the guy a bit for offering such a stupid solution. | |
| Apr 1, 2022 at 13:33 | comment | added | rvs | If it's a joke it is quite an offensive one. | |
| Apr 1, 2022 at 12:07 | history | answered | Stephan Branczyk | CC BY-SA 4.0 |