: Re: How to introduce a fake name or alias for the sake of making a story clearer I'm writing a scenario that describes what one person did when he worked for a company and want to use proper

If you add commas to your first example, it will carry the weight of the parens without needing the larger pause and extra words. The quote marks and the generic wording of ThisCo make it clear you're using placeholders.

My friend, "Chuck," who worked for a vendor, "ThisCo," decided he'd had enough.

Subsequent references don't need the quotes.

Chuck had been working for ThisCo under a manager, "Kate," for 10 years, but when Kate left and "Vern" came on board, conditions quickly soured. Vern was the nephew of ThisCo's CEO, and it showed.

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