“I have had this conversation three times in my life at different jobs.”

I always say, ‘Yeah’ like, yeah, I don’t want an email that says shart!

Yeah, fix it.

A woman with light hair in a casual outfit, appearing close up with a neutral expression, stands in front of a bookshelf filled with various books

Give me something else," she continues.

You’re going to want to give me something else.'

Or should I let them come to me?

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Should I let them initiate the conversation?

What do you guys think?

It’s such a blessing to be me.

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Live, laugh, love, baby.

Live, laugh, love."

“Luckily, I’m hard to embarrass, and it was all in good fun.

Comment by WinterCopper: "Reach out. Takes time to set up email and security. You don't want an escalated IT shart ticket floating around." with 267 likes

There are still people from my high school who call me ‘Shart’ to my face, haha.”

“My favorite is when a company allows me to use ‘sam@’ because it’s just cooler.

My parents and I laugh about it all the time to this day.

Comment from Kelsey Laine: "As someone in IT - please reach out. When we have to rename a bunch of logins after someone starts it can cause headaches for everyone (inc you!)"

Screenshot of a social media exchange between Sue Hartlove and Sam Hart. Sue Hartlove says her work emails are shartlove, Sam Hart responds, "Bless you shartlove"

Shawna Harter comments, "I have sharter. I love it ?" on a social media post with 3501 likes

Instagram comment from user boghag: "Oh my first company just full on had Samuel Hart and Sam Harting as shart@ and sharting@."

Comment by Katiehart: "My cousin is a shart and my brother is phart - a source of great joy for their coworkers" with laughing emoji. 815 likes. September 2023

Chris.littmann comments: "clitttmann has entered the chat. Have been dealing with this since college." Sylwia comments: "Mine is S.Litts and my husband is C.Litts. We're Clitts and Slitts."

A comment by Olivia says, "We had an S lutz at one company," dated 2023-9-.*. It has 1466 likes

Comment from LauraG8713: "this happened to my ex husband Paul Enis!" followed by date and 3304 likes

Social media comment by Bune: "Tara Watt. She kept with the traditional naming convention. No one ever forgot her email address." Heart reaction count of 268

Sarah Ober's comment reads: "Sarah Ober, nice to meet you." The comment has 1,907 likes

K8's comment reads: "someone at my college was plowme and they would nooooooot let her change it lmao."

An online comment by user AverageIdeal, describing how their high school's email system led to their friend's email being "mountme."

Ashley Cid comments, "Mine is ACID lmao," with 455 likes and a partial time/date stamp

A social media comment by Lori reads: "Worked with a guy named Sam Adcock…". Reaction count is 456

Social media comment by Bree Woods: "My college's email was first initial, middle initial, last name. So my roommate's email was inbutt@university ???."

Allie Hansen's social media comment: "My name is Allie Holle. A-holle." with a confused face emoji, dated September 2023

Comment by Sewage Biscuit: "I used to work with someone with the last name 'Null' who broke every database at every company she worked for." Contains laughing emoji, 547 likes

AS comments about complex code names, joking that a colleague's name became 'mcfart.' Image features a like count of 90

Instagram comment by user vvml1007 says, "ours was first 5 of last + first initial. one guy was gonna be McAnus so they gave him a special one." Post has 328 likes

Tamsin Abotteen comments: "My maiden name is Rash, first name Tamsin. So my first professional job (before I was married) was Trash." Followed by laughing emojis

TikTok comment by klepsterBK: "Charlie Umlover here—the struggle is real," posted on September 2023

TikTok comment by user CourtneyMichelle96: "C. Reamy…. Everyone laughs when I have to give it out.. funny yes. Confused when I just say it instead of spelling it for them"

Shannon Pitcock comments about a funny experience at Walmart where her name was mistakenly displayed as "SPITCOCK" on a TV

Comment from Millie: "My old job pc ids we're 1st 3 letters of your first name (Millie) followed by 1st letter of last name (foster). They did NOT ask to not call me MilF ?"

A social media comment by protodeka reads, "we had a guy, Robert Atman, who went by Bob. batman." There are 12 likes

Christine Metcalf comments: "Now parents need to think about corporate emails when naming their babies" followed by a grimacing face emoji

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