Because of the naming model I once got the email porn@companyname.com. it was hilarious until we realized anytime I was attached to a group email, the spam filters would remove it.

Hahaha that’s an awesome email. She should totally just roll with it. When saying out the email to people just deadpan the delivery for maximum effect.

An acquaintance of mine was cursed with bestanal@uni.edu because his first and middle initials were B.E.

Particularly bad since there are more flexible ways of creating usernames that can prevent collisions or unfortunate combinations.

In particular, firstname.lastname, with the addition of middle name first-letters if they exist. Sure, you can still get name collisions, but this method gives you a level of flexibility and professionalism that OP’s does not.

You can even partition people by function or position by using subdomains. So in this case, it could have been megan.finger@student.cwu.edu such that they never are confused for anything other than a student.

Or maybe by campus. Or a combination of @position.campus.city.institution.edu, especially if we are looking at an institution with tens of thousands of students in multiple locations across multiple cities.