At least a first name if family name is too much administrative hassle.

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[–] 104 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Hello, my name is Marc S, i'm the head of the Macrodata Refining department.

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  • [–] 65 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Fun fact, you can use whatever names you want. All names are made up. Your "legal name" is just what the government calls you, but you can ask other people to call you something else entirely. The same goes with pronouns.

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    A guy I used to work with went by the nickname of "Womble", his name was actually Raymond.

    One day I was poking through work orders in our system and discovered that it also officially knew him as "Womble <last name>" and there was no sign of Raymond in there.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago

    That's the thing: if he went by Womble at work then that was his name. The fact that the government called him Raymond doesn't make that his only name, they are both valid.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Our IT intake asks "is there another name you prefer to be known by" - and I have gone by my middle name since I was 12, so I told them, and they cheerfully complied.... on half the things in their system, the other half use my first name - things like the name under my picture during Teams calls. But, my e-mail address uses the middle name, so that's nice.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Yeah, police background checks for your job work better when you give them a fake name 🧐

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Background checks are big into "A.K.A." listings.

    Joe, Joey, Joseph, Jar-Man...

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Can confirm. I have a Rupert J Farnsworth III name, and no one calls me that.

    My background check and extra check and mili check and squirrell check and all that? Steve Guppy aka Rupert J Farnsworth III is cool.

    My bank readily accepts cheques addressed to my preferred name. Our IRS emulant has all that stuff. It was only 2 years ago my new employer mandated deadnames and it's been a constant struggle to bring their Plano/Delhi asses into line with anything modern. People say "Rupert! Bwahahaha" when it pops up.

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    [–] 55 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I need that report on my desk by 3pm, xX_pu$$y_de$tr0yer_Xx. Otherwise that promotion you've been working for might go to JoeMomma69.

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  • [–] 37 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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    [–] 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I have always told work people that I prefer to be called a different shorting of my name then the one I do prefer. Like if I was Robert I would tell work I prefer Bob instead of Rob.

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  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    So you'd go by Bob instead of Rob but only at your job?

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    [–] 18 points 1 year ago

    Sex workers: Am I joke to you?

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    There's a few people I know in real life, who I originally met online, and who call me "Chozo" more often than by my real name. Names are weird.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    Same with me, and a few people who call me 'Tira'

    I am perfectly happy to have it that way - just like OP suggested it's a nice separation. And while I have nothing against my given name and actually quite like it, Tira is a name I chose for myself.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Or even better, lets change society and work to something that just fits well together and where work is not slavery with extra steps.

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    [–] 14 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Work/life separation is propaganda from the Capital class that wants Workers to each be uniform machine parts.

    Some compartmentalization is fine, but don't forget to also be holistically you sometimes, and never substitute your employer's (or anyone else's) judgement for your own.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    I'm totally over having a "professional self". I don't go around swearing as much at work but other than that I'm pretty much just being me. People still respect me and I don't feel as exhausted by masking every single day.

    I'm also over corporate lingo and just call people/things out when they're overloaded with BS jargon. Its an accessibility issue and people need to learn to communicate in plain language.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    When I applied for a job at this company, my last interview was with "Joe". For everyone else I got the first and last name. And email addresses were also firstname.lastname@example.com. But not for Joe. Joe's was just joe@example.com.

    Same company after I was hired. I got on at about the same time as Peter-Michael. Whom we all called Peter-Michael. Because he was introduced as Peter-Michael. A few months in he revealed that he's only Peter-Michael at work. Everyone else just calls him Peter. It just happened like that because he used his full name on his application and then went with it.

    I know several people who go with their second name as their usual name when around friends. Either because they like it more or sometimes because the parents chose that order because secondname-firstname sounded weird.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I essentially do something similar.

    My friends and family all call me "Ted". At work, people call me "Theodore".

    One person at work asked me if I ever go by Ted and I had to tell them it's an easy way to know in which context someone knows me.

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    [–] 13 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    You can just ask people to call you by a nickname in your private life.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    If you go into porn that’s pretty much a prerequisite

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    [–] 11 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    I go by a different name at work and I do think it helps with the separation at times. Idk why people in this post are thinking it's weird to do this??? Do you all believe ppl at work are your friends? So many people must love their jobs I guess. lol

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    [–] 10 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    The idea reminds me of superheroes going by different names as superheroes than their personal names. Traditionally this is because of secret identities but in the MCU, most of the heroes don't have secret identities.

    "Oh we're using our made up names. I'm Spiderman"

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    [–] 8 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    I have 3 first names and I'm legally allowed to use any of them.

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    [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    This is like Minecraft YouTubers who go by their usernames in their videos, which is their job.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Aliases have already existed for a long time. I go by my middle name out of work and by my first name at work. I also work with a guy who does the opposite. There’s no reason to really have it be so official.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Maybe like the Severance tv show

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Sounds a bit like Severance.

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