They wanted to do a policy of first initial last name, but we had several fathers and first borns with same names and lots of brothers, sister, siblings with the same first initials. When I first set stuff up I let people pick their email if the wanted. Our female HR director was cowboy. I have been my initials rkd on company and personal since 1990. In fact, I am
rkd@mac.com for my apple id and rkd@gmail. That makes me pretty old.
What is really messed up is the norm is first initial last name, then some chick gets married. I can change her email address, but not her login because it's too much trouble to change her ID elsewhere in our records. And I've found changing default email address in Office365 it is best to export the users data, make a new account, import the users data, then delete the old one.
What is even MORE messed up the bright idea spawning IT department set up our AD as kimray.org instead of kimray.com because they didn't want it to be public. Now it causes all kinds of problems with logins and Office365.
Oh no, the IT director is sending out congratuations and thanks to all the IT staff for the email move and we don't actually start the final migration until 8pm tonight.