Here’s a hot tip, guys:

If you want to avoid making yourself and indeed the entire company look incompetent, why don’t you try making sure you get the new hire’s name right so that their network, email, and software logins don’t all consist of something they’ll find it unnatural to type?

Yours, etc,
The Guy Who Creates All Those Logins.

ps, Thank you.

(Note that I address this to “guys”. I have yet to see one of the female managers bungle a new hire’s name spelling. I have yet to see a male manager, however, who hasn’t botched at least two of these cases. I am not kidding.)