Corporate email addresses. I'm not sure whether you are acquainted with this problem or not, but I have some colleagues, who can't spell their email by phone easily.
The thing is that we all speak Russian here, you know. And email addresses assigned are written in Latin letters we are not used to.
Actually lionshare of my fellow citizens can't spell Latin letters correctly, in lots of offices one can here talks on phone like "Yes, S like the dollar sign".
Well, everyone has to tell someone his email by phone, right? In many different situations you ought to do that. And what happens when you are Russian, and your new system administrator has assigned you long email, composed from you last name and initials, transliterated in some strange manner, specified by corporate policy #345-i "Employee email address assignment instructions"?
Right, new employee has to spell somthing like zasetskii@ugly-domain.cos by phone.
That's not easy, esspesially when talking with a mid-aged accountant.
Lunch is coming closer all the time, and I have to finish all this. So, I have thought out a simple solution.
email creation policy must have instructions to assign a couple of addresses to each employee if necessary. So, Ivan Zasetskii can get two addresses:
the standard one:
zasetskii@ugly-domain.cos
and the easy-spelling one:
ivan.z@ugly-domain.cos
Am I clever?
Friday, August 25, 2006
Tuesday, August 01, 2006
Good news every one! I'm perfectly sure none reads this, but anyway, practicing in creating text in English is rather useful for such a jerk I am.
As far I remember, Lenin, who knew mane different languages, use to write I instead of I when he used English.
Lenin, the father of Russian revolution, explained that by his modesty, it didn't allow him to use capital letter to identify himself. That was rude, as Lenin thought.
Meanwhile I've created a flickr account and posted some pictures we've made with my girlfriend while being at Tunisia.
I've noticed that most non-Russian Tunisia tourists look like truck drivers, plumbers and so on. I mean, look like workers.
Here are my pics any way
http://www.flickr.com/photos/59663065@N00/tags/tunisia/
As far I remember, Lenin, who knew mane different languages, use to write I instead of I when he used English.
Lenin, the father of Russian revolution, explained that by his modesty, it didn't allow him to use capital letter to identify himself. That was rude, as Lenin thought.
Meanwhile I've created a flickr account and posted some pictures we've made with my girlfriend while being at Tunisia.
I've noticed that most non-Russian Tunisia tourists look like truck drivers, plumbers and so on. I mean, look like workers.
Here are my pics any way
http://www.flickr.com/photos/59663065@N00/tags/tunisia/
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