At least a first name if family name is too much administrative hassle.
Hello, my name is Marc S, i’m the head of the Macrodata Refining department.
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.
Yeah, police background checks for your job work better when you give them a fake name 🧐
My colleague has the same name as my boss.
His nickname (translates to “Shorty”) is based on his last name.
And that’s so weird to say as someone being younger and smaller than your colleague to call him “Shorty”.
Reason is my dad calls me “Großer” (literal translation: Bigger -> As in “The great”) and I jokingly call him that back. But the same thing can be said with calling him “Kurzer” if he’s smaller.
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.
We’re at work, you can just call me “Big Tuna”.
Severance
I think they covered pretty clearly why that was a bad idea.
It Kind of felt like deal with the devil. Sell a innocent version of yourself to hell and torture and profit over it.
Thought this as well, lol.
But I guess the way OP means, it would be kind of the opposite. Me knowing everything about both worlds, the employer not knowing who I am in personal life.
Also, kind of a different story, but in my university town I’m mostly known by a different but similar name than my actual name, because one of my first friends forgot my actual name in the first days and just called me by that other name, and somehow everybody adopted that other name. But it’s only in that town and context, because the social circles are quite separated.
Do you work for ice?
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.
So you’d go by Bob instead of Rob but only at your job?
Maybe Bob is a slob at his job, but Rob has a knob on his hob at home.
And for his hobby he goes by Bobby
In his yurt he prefers Bert
He works for Bob Loblaw’s Law Blog.
Huh. After decades of working with the public, I wish I’d thought of this years ago. If I encounter someone in public and they say hey Bob! I’d instantly know it was someone I met through work, so I should probably stay mildly professional.
For a long time I went by my full name at work but family and friends were always by nickname. Now I work with someone who was a friend and was used to calling me my nickname and would introduce me to others by it, so it started to bleed.
However at work, I still refer to myself by my full name with people I don’t like or trust as much. If anyone ever figures out my system they’ll realize how I feel about people in the office very quickly hahaha.
Sex workers: Am I joke to you?
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.
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.
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.
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.
Yeah, same, my d&d group calls me by my first character’s name :)
I did that a few times, it was worst when the character name was just a standard name with one letter difference from the player’s real name. I only found out that I had gotten the two confused after I looked more closely at the sheet a week of talking every day.
You can just ask people to call you by a nickname in your private life.
Or your professional life. My grandma spent her entire career going by the less catholic nickname she used with her first husband’s family.
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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If you go into porn that’s pretty much a prerequisite
Just imagine this in the James Bond world. “Jennifer? That’s just my stage name. My real name is Pussy Galore.”
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
I am really sorry to hear that you haven’t experienced an enjoyable workplace yet.
I like my job. It’s annoying but likable.
Especially the colleagues make it bearable and I’ll stay for a cold one after work on a friday to chill in the corner or on the balcony (during summer).
I have 3 first names and I’m legally allowed to use any of them.
I genuinely use my third name for anything professional.
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”
I’m reminded of someone at work who jokingly introduced himself as Nightwing. I genuinely cannot remember his real name.
Which one is the real identity and which one is the secret identity: workName or homeName?
In my opinion, Batman’s true identity is Batman and Bruce Wayne is the disguise, but for most heroes their personal name is their true self and the superhero is the disguise
Also true for Superman. He can’t change who he is, a superhero. However, he can disguise himself as Clark Kent.
But back to the original question. If you’re Robin at work and Samantha at home, which one is the secret identity?
In my opinion, the name you use at home would be your true self and the name you use at work would be the disguise because most people put on a professional persona at work and don’t behave naturally. It would ultimately depend on the individual though, some people might feel more like their true selves at work than outside work
