At least a first name if family name is too much administrative hassle.

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    Dad: “Say, Jim, now that you’re in business for yourself I’d like to hire you to rebuild my deck.”

    Jim: “Sounds great, Dad! But call me Barry.”

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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.

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        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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      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.

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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.

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      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.

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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

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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.

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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 [email protected]. But not for Joe. Joe’s was just [email protected].

    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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      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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        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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          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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      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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      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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        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”.