**Rey (vulpish aspect)** @rey · 2018-05-24T00:14:38Z

Rey (vulpish aspect) @rey

Rey (vulpish aspect) @rey

so apparently updating the name on your IEEE membership requires documentation from the government

welp

May 24, 2018, 00:14 · 1 · 0

**Now is the summer of our discotheque** @Elizafox@mst3k.interlinked.me · May 24, 2018, 00:14

**Now is the summer of our discotheque** @Elizafox@mst3k.interlinked.me · May 24, 2018, 00:14

@rey wow

**Kurt Mosiejczuk** @kurtm@mastodon.social · May 24, 2018, 00:21

**Kurt Mosiejczuk** @kurtm@mastodon.social · May 24, 2018, 00:21

@rey WTF?

IEEE has always struck me as being full of itself. This confirms that and has a large plate of "asshole" for dessert.

**clara sparks** @mxsparks · May 24, 2018, 00:41

**clara sparks** @mxsparks · May 24, 2018, 00:41

@rey and they do server-side validation on the Title and Gender fields, so no "Mx." for me :p

but strangely they never asked to see my PE license before letting me update the Suffix field 🤔

**ziphi renata** @ziphi · May 24, 2018, 00:56

**ziphi renata** @ziphi · May 24, 2018, 00:56

@rey Oh heck. I hate when organizations do that. Some things have even my SSN but are afraid that me putting “Renata” in the name field would prevent them from knowing who I am. If all it is is the name they use to communicate with you and others, then it should be the one that you *actually use*.

**nethope** @nethope@octodon.social · May 26, 2018, 00:30

**nethope** @nethope@octodon.social · May 26, 2018, 00:30

@rey
What?? I changed my name in 2001 (got married) and in 2013 (divorce final), and I don't remember IEEE being difficult either time. Now eBay in 2001 had a lot of hoops! I did get my name change request down to a form letter with a copy of the applicable certificate, tho'.

However, IEEE should NOT be the gatekeeper of valid reasons to change names. I'm sorry I didn't keep records of what I had to do to get my name change, but I'll join you for WTF-ing - officially to IEEE if it would help!