Work won’t change my name after marriage

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I’m hoping someone can give me some advice. I got married 6 weeks ago, filled in all the forms at work before I went off, so it would be done before I got back to work. I emailed IT and gave the information and asked for my emails and usernames to be changed. The only things they have changed is my payroll and the name on my email account. My email address is still my maiden name and my usernames for the different computer systems are still in my maiden name. I was told they have changed everything that they can but it’s left me really deflated, it’s important for me to change my name I think it looks untidy and unprofessional to have an email address that doesn’t match the name. It’s also causing a lot of confusion with my clients who I have regular email contact with.

Has anyone had the same problem and can offer some advice? I don’t want to use my maiden name for work purposes as it’s not my name anymore and want everything the same.

I would actually find it irritating if halfway through my transaction, my estate agent/lawyer/accountant/dentist /plastic surgeon/taxidermist/whatever suddenly announced they were no longer x but instead y. And then 50% of the time they are back to x again next time I sell a house/have an HMRC inspection/get a crown/breast implants/my dog dies.

Where possible, just keep your name changes to your personal life imho.

Emails are changed pretty much instantly, however we do have one system where apparently the names can't be changed, so one colleague still has her maiden name, she was married over 20 years ago (now divorced but kept name) It causes no end of confusion for new staff members.

So, yes, the odd system may have that quirk, but most don't.

It's this, I'm afraid. Changing your display name is easy, but everything about you is stored under your email address. To change both they'd have to close your old account but continue to pay for it so that you could have access to your old emails, then open a new account as if you were a new hire, and pay for that account too.

I work in IT and honestly it's not hard to change names.
They either cba or they have some sort of fancy system where things can't be changed, but in this day and age, anything can be changed.

Thanks for the replies. I’ll keep trying and if IT won’t help I’ll speak to HR 🙂

Don’t understand the lazy comment?
im retired now. I use 7 emails for different things..some variations on my married name, some maiden name and some randoms.
It is actually incredibly useful for security reasons- and easy to have them all coming into a single in box.
keep your married name emails for your private financial, legal, and critical records and organisations.

interestingly just started seeing feature on iOS that is creating random emails for security reasons.

Is marriage a protected characteristic?

Marital status is, whether you are being discriminated against because you are or are not married or in a civil partnership, widowed, divorced, whatever.

Domain accounts and email addresses can be changed. I have done it many times. Same for if it's an O365 account. I did that last around this time last year.

No new account or mailbox needs to creates. May just take an hour or two for it to replicate fully.

Other systems may be different and you may not be able to change those.

On the discrimination side, I assume this only happens to women so indirect sexual discrimination?

YANBU, this this ridiculous. I came back from my honeymoon and my name plate outside my office door had changed, email address sorted, internal directory, pay slips - everything. Right down to HR contacting the law society who issued a new practising certificate in my married name. All handled by HR effortlessly, as soon as they heard I was changing my name on marriage. The issues you’re facing are mind boggling!

Well the person I knew that this happened to was a man so I'd say not!

I think they are being disrespectful. People change their names for all types of reasons, not just marriage. Would they demand you kept the email address if you divorced for example? Whether or not your choose to take your husband's name is your decision, and your's alone. All they need to do is set up a new email account for you, divert your maiden name to your married name account and phase it out gradually. It really isn't hard.