At least a first name if family name is too much administrative hassle.
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.
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.
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.
Yeah, police background checks for your job work better when you give them a fake name 🧐
Hello, my name is Marc S, i’m the head of the Macrodata Refining department.
The work is mysterious and important.
I’m enjoying every reference in this thread equally
Praise Kier
Severance
I think they covered pretty clearly why that was a bad idea.
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.
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.
Part of the reason cops and military use rank structure so they can simply address each other by rank instead of their gender or name and then go home and use their name and preferred gender pronouns there
Uh, what? When i was in we called each other by our first names if we were friends or last names if we were acquaintances. Hardly anyone used ranks unless you were being yelled at or had to report. I was in a combat arms unit so maybe its different for other types of units but i doubt it.
Do you work for ice?
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.
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
Sex workers: Am I joke to you?
This is like Minecraft YouTubers who go by their usernames in their videos, which is their job.
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.
If you go into porn that’s pretty much a prerequisite
Or even better, lets change society and work to something that just fits well together and where work is not slavery with extra steps.
Bwahahaha
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.
