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My first thought was "what country"? I know a lot of yous guys are in the UK but it sure sounds like a US thing. Anyway, I'd pick a nickname like 'Muddy' for Mohemad or some such thing just to get in the mgr's face.
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I would SUGGEST the manager have to choose between 2 even MORE Islamic sounding names.
Or add a few new names TO THE name as a nick name.
But that's just me.
Now, if the name is hard to understand (like some of those in India, apparently),
I actually appreciate when they lie to me:
Hello, my name is JOHN, and I will be giving you excellent customer service today!
Where you located John? (I ask)...
Chee Cah Go!
What's the weather like?
(click click click)... Oh it is being beautiful outside. With lots of wind.
==
No offense intended here. I just love the attempt.
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Congratulate your fellow employee (the one with the "Islamic" sounding name) on winning the lawyer lottery, and ask him/her what they are going to buy first with the proceeds of their lawsuit.
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My first company tried doing that 20 years ago. I basically said no.
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Tell him to use the nickname "BomberMan" and explain it as his favorite video game. 
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In all the righteous indignation here maybe we've forgotten something; that many Americans are clearly prejudiced. There's a gap between how they should behave and how they do behave. Depending on the locale and the product, I can see a sales or marketing manager trying to deal with customers as they are, not as they ought to be.
That said, it would have to be a very careful and respectfully offered request, and there would have to be no consequence for declining to be nicknamed. If the manager was known to be a jerk, I'd probably freak out in ways that eventually involved lawyers.
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Did you mean to say, "asked you to use a nickname because YOUR NAME sounded 'Islamic'"? If so, yes, that would be discriminatory.
If you meant what you said and the manager asked you to use a nickname because [it] sounded "Islamic" (it being the nickname according to English grammar rules), that would be much more interesting. It would sound like the manager didn't want anyone to think they didn't hire Muslims, or that they hired any non-Muslims. Still discriminatory, though.
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I would tell the manager to rephrase the request to: "We're making a new policy which restricts the use of nicknames." that way the whole world is happier with the mess they created. because, believe me, if you want more rules just keep suing people over stuff like this and there will come a day when you'll be reading 1984 as a policy guide.
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'Your' manager NOT 'you're' manager
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I would have already changed my name
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The next time he meets a customer in front of that manager, he should shake hands with the customer, wink, and say "Hi, they call me The Penetrator."
Seriously, lawsuits are a last resort and employees have the deck stacked against them no matter how good of a case they have. It would be best to resolve it internally, first by having a chat with the manager and explaining why he shouldn't have to change his name. If the manager insists on the name change, he could then go to HR. HR is not an advocate for the employee, their main job is to avoid lawsuits for the company, but that means they will probably force the manager to back off of the name change.
If he really wants to consider a lawsuit and this is in the USA, he should first go have a chat with the local EEOC office and see what they say. They can give advice and may choose to sue themselves if the case is good enough. I think it's very unlikely that much would come from a lawsuit though, unless this manager has a pattern of treating employees this way and the company was aware and did nothing, and the employee was told it was a choice between name change and termination.
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I would give that manager a choice: the second word out of my mouth can be "you" or "off".
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Hi all, anyone here used Oracle 12c ? It's mentioned in a contract I'm looking at and I'm just wondering if it's vastly different from the normal Oracle ( I know I know )
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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Isn't 12c rather out of date?
Marc
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Don't know Mark
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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12c is the latest. (So, yes, it's rather out of date--I haven't used Oracle since 9, so perhaps it doesn't require a full time babysitter anymore and my snark is invalid.)
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You're not stating what normal Oracle is for you.
Assuming it's 11g there wan't much difference for my usage (at my old job).
The biggest difference would probably have been the in memory column store. If I had used it.
The advantage is a bit limited in my personal opinion. But when you can make use of it, it gives you serious performance boost.
There's a list of new features over here[^], most of them aren't of great interest if you're not into big data.
<edit>Almost forgot, Varchar has a limit of 32767 characters instead of 4000. That could be a dealbreaker in some circumstances</edit>
modified 6-Sep-16 16:33pm.
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: Almost forgot, Varchar has a limit of 32767 characters instead of 4000.
The Limit was not 4000 characters but 4000 Bytes (new: 32767 Bytes)
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Yes, it is different.
It sucks even more money out of customers.
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@Kent-Sharkeyy
Quote: I usually need 30cc before facing Oracle
Even if you're only measuring the ethanol content not the total volume of whiskey (or whisky depending on what distillery I'm currently patronizing) I'd want an order of magnitude more.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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One good shot to start, then another after opening the tool, another if I need to hit a man page, etc. And yeah, Everclear or pharmaceutical ethanol preferred. With whiskey, it would take a bit more.
TTFN - Kent
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My experience with Oracle since V7 has been that you import the DB and it usually works, except for fringe cases. I give them credit for that.
Oracle 12c has subtle differences that might affect performance in a HIGHLY TUNED specific environment. Outside of that, you should be fine. Easy enough to install on a VM, and load the application into...
Overall, as others alluded too... It's the licensing that kills you, not the product. I was an Oracle Bigot (only Oracle) for years. I usually quipped (what is oracle too fast, and too stable for you?).
But with recent changes to the licensing fees, and how they handle things, I avoid it. It is my last choice behind MySQL, MSSQL, and Postgress (in that order, although postgres and EnterpriseDB (EDB)) are really close in the multiple virtual views like Oracle Offers.
If you are not a big enough client to have a DBA, it will probably migrate fine.
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