Introducing a Nickname Forum

Anonymous User · Post by **Anonymous User** » Sun Oct 12, 2014 1:39 am

Got a nickname from family based off one of my given names. Thinking about running with it during 2L summer at a firm and introducing myself using it (unless I forget to do that, which I might). It'd be the first time I introduced it outside of family. Is this unprofessional? FTR, it's not, like, "Slayer" or something.

WokeUpInACar · Post by **WokeUpInACar** » Sun Oct 12, 2014 1:48 am

I really hope that it's T-Bone.

lacrossebrother · Post by **lacrossebrother** » Sun Oct 12, 2014 3:20 am

Idk maybe ask a real friend who knows both names instead of asking the Internet and not giving us the names?

Bo and Tripp and Sandy and JP are fine. Junior isn't. T-Bone is ideal. Buck works but isn't great. Peanut isn't chill.

rinkrat19 · Post by **rinkrat19** » Sun Oct 12, 2014 3:35 am

If it's a normal nickname that isn't embarrassing or wildly unprofessional for an adult, go ahead. (Jim/James, Nick/Nicholas, Tony/Anthony, Bill/William, etc.) But probably realize that until your email address, business cards, and website profile use the nickname too, you're going to get called your real name 90% of the time in a work setting. Is the nickname what you WANT to be called?

izha · Post by **izha** » Sun Oct 12, 2014 5:55 am

WokeUpInACar wrote:I really hope that it's T-Bone.

Koko.

DavidConeSplitter · Post by **DavidConeSplitter** » Sun Oct 12, 2014 11:16 am

I wish my nickname was Slayer that'd be sick

dixiecupdrinking · Post by **dixiecupdrinking** » Sun Oct 12, 2014 11:55 am

Go by the name you normally go by.

AntipodeanPhil · Post by **AntipodeanPhil** » Sun Oct 12, 2014 2:57 pm

The only people I know who've tried to give themselves nicknames are enormous douches. Perhaps this isn't quite as bad, if your family already use the nickname, but it would still come across to me as douchey.

Obviously, normal abbreviations are fine and non-douchey (Tony, Jim, Bill, etc).

BVest · Post by **BVest** » Sun Oct 12, 2014 3:07 pm

Anonymous User wrote:Got a nickname from family based off one of my given names. Thinking about running with it during 2L summer at a firm and introducing myself using it (unless I forget to do that, which I might). It'd be the first time I introduced it outside of family. Is this unprofessional? FTR, it's not, like, "Slayer" or something. Think along the lines of "Bo" or something

Are you saying you don't use it at school or otherwise outside of your family? Then don't use it for work.

Even nicknames that have been used for school or otherwise (e.g. diminutive nicknames like Jenny, Sammy or Bobby) should be reconsidered before introducing them professionally. (Not saying that no diminutive nicknames can be used professionally; some diminutive nicknames can bridge that gap successfully -- Molly, Abby, Marty -- and some do not.)

patogordo · Post by **patogordo** » Sun Oct 12, 2014 3:50 pm

you're anon bro. just tell us the nickname

Anonymous User · Post by **Anonymous User** » Sun Oct 12, 2014 5:58 pm

patogordo · Post by **patogordo** » Sun Oct 12, 2014 6:02 pm

sounds fine to me, especially if in south

Anonymous User · Post by **Anonymous User** » Sun Oct 12, 2014 6:02 pm

BVest wrote:Are you saying you don't use it at school or otherwise outside of your family? Then don't use it for work.

Yeah that's the case. I meant to introduce myself using it during 1L, but I forgot to with person #1 and couldn't switch it up after. I mean, I prefer the nickname and all, but I'm really used to just doing first name.

hdunlop · Post by **hdunlop** » Sun Oct 12, 2014 6:12 pm

Roll with it, Cephus.

Anonymous User · Post by **Anonymous User** » Sun Oct 12, 2014 6:14 pm

hdunlop wrote:Roll with it, Cephus.

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Eta: And yeah, it's the south. I mean, of course.

Anonymous User · Post by **Anonymous User** » Sun Oct 12, 2014 6:15 pm

lacrossebrother · Post by **lacrossebrother** » Mon Oct 13, 2014 4:01 am

Oh man now I want to know what it is? Is it a military rank you didn't actually earn like The General? Patterson Hood told me that that used to be all the rage.

Anonymous User · Post by **Anonymous User** » Mon Oct 13, 2014 7:19 am

lacrossebrother wrote:Oh man now I want to know what it is? Is it a military rank you didn't actually earn like The General? Patterson Hood told me that that used to be all the rage.

OP here.

Get cracking Lax.

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