Sounds a bit like Severance.
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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).
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
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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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
At my work we let people use whatever name they want for any IT stuff. Basically you give us one name and that'll be your email, Teams, account ID, basically anything your coworkers can see. The only time the legal name is used is on HR documents and payroll, but they're working to adjust that too, which would be super great. There's no reason anyone should have to be referred by as a name that they don't feel is their own or that triggers traumas.
Yeah, police background checks for your job work better when you give them a fake name 🧐
Background checks are big into "A.K.A." listings.
Joe, Joey, Joseph, Jar-Man...
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.
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
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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
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."
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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.
An internet friend also has such a double name. But it shortens to J-P so his nickname for us became JP (spoken in english JayPe)
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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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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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.
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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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You just approached the Sovereign Citizen mindset from first principles.
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