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Comment on We should be able to legally have a different name just for work for better work/life separation

bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

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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Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
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)

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CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
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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- bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  At school we had an anonymous grievances box. So that the kids could safely air their grievances. It was rarely used. But one day a note read “I don’t want to be called Willy anymore.” And amazingly it worked. Even the biggest bullies and class trolls called him William from that day on.
  
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  - MangoCats@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Your trolls were lightweight. Trolls in my schools would have doubled, or tripled down on Willy - knowing that it bothered him.
    
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MangoCats@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Both of my grandfathers went I.O. initials only, including when they were drafted for WWII. One would use his first name about half the time, but only reveal what the middle initial stood for maybe twice in my lifetime. The other: I.O. all the way, to his grave nobody I know ever heard what those initials stood for.

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- RBWells@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  My mom had an uncle named J.M. It didn’t stand for anything, that’s what his momma named him. He went into the army and they were not having it. His paperwork read “Jayem”.
  
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