I mean, I use my middle name at work cause I don’t trust a bunch of extremely America-centric boomers to ever pronounce Tanis correctly.
“Tan-ess” ?
Irish boys’ name attached to a 40-year old lesbian.
In English, TAH-niss. In Japanese, タニス.
But those aren’t the sounds native English speakers default to. They like that real nasally ugly-sounding short A for whatever reason.
Hey there Taaniss :)
I did that in school and my first job because y first name is fairly common and my middle name is familiar bilut unique. Then we hired someone with the same name, and I went back to my first name for my next job.
One of the guys I work with only goes by his middle name. I didn’t know this for almost a full year. I told him to never tell me his first name, I like the mystery.
I had an uncle like this, I only found out he went by his middle name at his funeral.
My favourite uncle quagmire used a pseudo his entire life that wasn’t on his documentation. They mentioned his birth name at the funeral, something like ‘Paul Michael Quagmire’ that was still on his docs; and we all said “huh” and promptly forgot it. He’ll always be my uncle Glenn.
I’ve pretty much only ever gone by my middle name. Confuses the shit out of me when it’s official stuff.
My Christian and surnames scream “white guy”, while my middle name is clearly “black”. There have been times I was tempted to go with the middle name at a new job. But looking for one? Hell no. Had to change my email address that included the black name to get any replies on job postings. :(
Ok, Charlie Quinton Murphy
That’s very damned close. :)
Is the christian name your first name?
Yep. Old-school way of saying that I guess. “Given name” is the same.
I know at least two girls who went by their second name because they didn’t like their first.
