For such folks, telling them that invoking the full path of the executable will bypass the alias, e.g. “/bin/rm -f” will do the right thing. Discoverable? Nah. But we are talking about shell command behavior which is pretty arcane anyways.
Their shell profiles were littered with two-letter aliases, replacing quite a few common things with their proprietary [often unrelated] versions
For example, mv for moving files became mv for Mail Volume, or something