Here's a letter I received from the Society after writing to ask about whether it was OK to use an assumed name while I was working. I do not have a copy of the actual letter I wrote to them, but here's what the situation was:
I had been hired as an agent by a private employment agency, which meant that I was basically a telephone solicitor, trying to get job orders from businesses, then match those job orders with applicants. The policy at the time was to use a fictitious last name while working at the agency (for example, another agent who became a good friend was named Greg Grimm; he called himself Greg Green while working there); I'm not sure why the boss wanted it that way. He said that it was to preserve our privacy, but there are plenty of other similar businesses where personal privacy is not such a concern as to require disguising one's identity. I suspect it may have been to make it more difficult for his employees to get a following, then move to another agency, taking all their clients with them. Even then, a simple non-compete agreement would seem to have been a less complicated solution.
Anyway, I complied with the policy, and when I discussed it with others in the congregation (not having learned then to keep my mouth shut about such things), they expressed dismay about my dishonesty. So I wrote to the Society to find out what I should do. The letter below gives their answer. In retrospect, I'm not sure that I would disagree with the essence of their answer, except, of course, that I'm no longer concerned about 'having a good standing in the congregation.' Actually, now that I think about it, that part was really a veiled threat, wasn't it?