[cm2012]

If you get a legal name change, once it's done even your birth certificate is changed. Hr would never know.

[cancelled]

That would be great if it worked like that. I know it's stupid in my position, but I like my name, and I know I didn't really do anything wrong. I feel like it would absolutely just be like letting the offending party win, if I did this. But I need to grow up and accept my new reality.

[moneywoes]

Did your employer not listen to your side of the story at all?

[cancelled]

My manager did and I could tell they believed, but the optics of it all I imagined made it too toxic to be worth defending me over. Racist, sexist content was falsely attributed to me.

[tshaddox]

In what sense were there “optics” beyond the company? Was this incident public, or just on some forum that would only show up when people Google your name?

[cancelled]

Some other platform picked it up and started bagging on me. Not national news public, but still.

[dustintrex]

Until HR requests your academic records, references or anything else that refers to you by your old name.

[jcrites]

I’ve never had an employer request academic records after working at multiple FAANG companies — except perhaps right out of college, but I’m not sure even then.

Unless you’re applying for a job that’s high-profile (like VP or C-suite), or in a highly regulated industry, I wouldn’t expect this.

Plus you can probably contact your university registrar with your legal name change and ask them to update the transcript to the new name.

[sgerenser]

HireRight background check for 2 different BigTech companies required me to put the contact information of my University’s registrar. I think they did actually verify that I received the degree I said I did, despite that being over 15 years ago now.