• @[email protected]
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    521 month ago

    My health insurance company did this with my first name. Now when I communicate with them in any way, even a doctor telemedicine visit,I have to pretend my name is Christophe.

    • @Dasus
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      271 month ago

      Could’ve gone with Hristopher, I guess?

      • kase
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        1 month ago

        Christofer

        E: scrolled down to realize I’m like the third person to say this. So original 🙄🤷

  • @aeronmelon
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    411 month ago

    Christophe sounds cooler, anyway.

    • @tkohldesac
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      301 month ago

      Every substitute teacher I ever had called me Christophe thanks to the school district’s character limit.

      • @spiffynova
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        191 month ago

        As a fellow Christophe, I too have seen this all my life.
        It’s comical that so many companies and systems just decided “No one will ever have a name longer than 10 characters, right?”

        • @tkohldesac
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          71 month ago

          It’s wild considering it was one of the most popular names for a while. There were 3 other Christophe’s in my class at one point.

        • @[email protected]
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          61 month ago

          South Korea actually has a law that nobody can have names longer than 5 symbols since a traditional name is never longer than that and it’s all their systems are setup to handle.

    • The Assman
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      71 month ago

      This immediately made me think of Frozen. That’s what having kids does to your brain.

    • kase
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      291 month ago


      Lmao

      • @FooBarrington
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        141 month ago

        Falsehoods programmers believe about names:

          1. Names are representable using an n-dimensional infinite canvas. Nobody has a name requiring an (n+1)-dimensional representation.
        • Skye
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          21 month ago

          Strongly resisting the urge to rename myself to the concept of ℂⁿ⁺¹.

          How do you spell it? You can’t. Muahahaha

    • @NorthWestWind
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      81 month ago

      That’s why you should store names as images

    • @[email protected]
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      41 month ago

      One of my financial accounts wouldn’t let me transfer money to another because my name wasn’t exactly the same on that account.

    • Echo Dot
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      41 month ago

      Alright alright but surely people’s names are diverse enough such that no million people share the same name.

      Who thinks that?

      There’s about 5,000 people working at the organization I work at and there’s loads of people who have the same name, first and last.

  • @_sideffect
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    371 month ago

    You write Chris, and then they lock your account because they think you’re fraudulent

    • @ooterness
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      41 month ago

      So is the poop emoji.

  • Veraxus
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    141 month ago

    I also love when systems tell me my name is “invalid” because it has a character they don’t like.