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I use porn star names to name computers in my company network.

It's easy to claim that "lisaann" and "peternorth" are just randomly invented names, and then watch some corporate drone blushing and struggling when asked to explain why they find those names inappropriate.

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If I'd notice that thing I would probably just silently judge you and file you into the "immature edgy teenager"-category and avoid giving you any meaningful decisions from now on.

Don't worry, he doesn't actually do this, mostly because admitting you know who those people are isn't nearly as bad as actively using those names in a workplace.

“I’ve been informed that miroljub has named company computers after adult film stars. I believe this is inappropriate.”

No blushing is required.

It only takes the first time someone types in `lisaann` in their address bar instead of `lisaann.local`.

Fwiw, I believe they're either making this up or they work for a company that's too small to have an HR department.

After googling lisaann, I have to say she deserves some respect for parodying Sarah Palin.

Big yikes, that's a hostile work environment and is a huge risk for your HR I am sure. I would not be comfortable working with such conditions, and would be sure to let my HR rep know.

Perhaps I missed the irony. But why do you think that is hostile?

I suspect you'd just disagree or fail to understand if it were explained. Safest to just trust the implied advice in this instance!

“We’ll I don’t find it inappropriate so it’s completely impossible for me to bother trying to understand why someone else might.”

Most porn objectifies women and many employees are women who do not like being objectified.

Perhaps I missed the irony.

Got it. I guess I'm slow today.

I guess I'll be using male gay porn actor's names to label my servers.

Or is that considered toxic too because there won't be any womens names?

Unless they're obviously fake artist names, I wouldn't do that. Every real name carries the risk that a new hire might share that name, leading to all the confusion mentioned in the article.

How do you know they're porn names to begin with?

That's what makes it funny.

"Funny" and "Appropriate" don't always occupy the same space.

We have services named after convicted murderers at my place of work.

Not only do I want this to be true, I want you to work for a major government agency like the post office.

Yikes.

Are porn actors actually famous? I think the only one I could name off the top of my head is Brent Corrigan.

Yeah, it would only be meaningful for people who already have some mental images of said [porn]stars. The rest would just see random names. For that, actual random name generators exist. It's not hard to make your own, and compile a database of distinctly sounding and distinctly written first and last names. Then, of course, a company would hire someone with exact same “impossible” name.

Stormy Daniels is the only one I know of, but her job is somewhat incidental to her fame.

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