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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dgriffith@aussie.zone 1 day agoA 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 officially knew him as “Womble <last name>” and there was no sign of Raymond in there.
MangoCats@feddit.it 1 day ago
garbagebagel@lemmy.world 1 day ago
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.
koper@feddit.nl 1 day 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.