So i started a new job in November and on my first day during orientation HR told me there was already a Thomas Johnson working in the engineering department. I thought ok whatever its a big company. WRONG. The mix ups have been nonstop. I got his benefits enrollment email, he got my parking pass, someone from his team scheduled a meeting with me about a server migration (i work in accounting... i dont know what a server migration is). Last week was the best one though. His manager sent me a performance review that was clearly meant for him. Apparently the other Thomas Johnson is doing great btw. 4 out of 5 stars. Anyone else deal with having a name twin at work? How do you handle it without losing your mind
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Not a Thomas Johnson but theres two David Millers at my company and we went through the exact same thing. IT kept resetting the wrong persons password. Eventually we just started going by Dave M (engineering) and David M (sales). Might be worth introducing some kind of system like that before it gets worse
yeah we've been talking about it. he goes by Tom and i go by Thomas so were trying to get people to use that but the email system just shows T. Johnson for both of us which is the real problem
I work in HR and this happens way more often than people think. We had to add middle initials to the email system after a Michael Smith got another Michael Smiths termination notice. That was a fun day. Ask your IT department if they can add a middle initial or department tag to your email display name. Most companies will do it if you ask.
Wait hold on. Do you work at a company in Portland? Because i literally AM the other Thomas Johnson at a company where a new Thomas Johnson started in accounting in November and ive been getting his parking notifications for months lol
NO WAY. check your DMs because if this is real then this is the most on brand thing thats ever happened on this site
this is incredible please tell me you two actually found each other through this post. the internet is wild sometimes
I had this at my old job except the other person was in a completely different country. Same company, different office. His emails would come to me because the system just matched on name and grabbed the first result. i got an email in german once and had absolutely no idea what was happening. took weeks to sort out with IT