Does my employer care about my GitHub username?

manpreet Best Answer 2 years ago

If the username does not provide NSFW or offensive vibe, but is not a standard one like firstname.lastname or firstinitial.lastname, etc. does it annoy you as an employer?

Examples of such usernames maybe:

1. coolguy
2. sharktank
3. insidejob
4. chillbro
5. cockroach
6. teeshirt
7. ramsaybolton

EDIT: Changed Git to GitHub in the title.

manpreet 2 years ago

Maybe your employer doesn't care but to me, every item you mention sounds unprofessional. If you aleady recognized that everybody else is using firstname.lastname, just stick to that. Seems like you already think that there's an issue here, otherwise you wouldn't ask that question.

Apart of this: what shall the 'git username' be at all? author.name needs no firstname.lastname, you could use a real name here: Firstname Lastname is fine. author.email will be an e-mail address. If you have a corporate address, use that.

And if all your colleagues have similar unprofessional addresses, it's not an issue here. But maybe customers have their own opinion when they're contacted by programmergod@compa.ny regarding the enquiry they sent last week to salesdude@compa.ny...