Absolutely hilarious (I think, anyways...)

[thegiraffe]

This isn't sucky, but it happened while I was a customer. I thought it was really funny.


I went to Target tonight to pick up some laundry detergent. I go through the express lane, and my cashier is a woman. Her nametag says "John". I take note, but don't say anything because hey...you never know.

The cashier behind me then has a customer come up who needs something picked up at the service desk. My cashier says "I'll get it, John." I turn around, and his nametag says "Cheryl".

Me: Did you guys switch nametags?
Cashier (female): Yeah...we're trying to get fired.
Me: That's hilarious.

She said it so matter-of-factly and then walked to the desk (after she was done with me, of course) that it struck me as hilarious.

I wonder if anyone else picked up on it.

Great way to pass the time haha.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

I personally have done the same thing. On a boring Saturday night I spent most of my shift wearing a nametag that said "Arlene" (not the real name of any of my coworkers).

If anybody noticed, they didn't tell me.

[Broomjockey]

Nametag hijinks get people fired? That has to be a joke. At my theatre, people were swapping tags on a fairly regular basis. And one guy managed to get ahold of the label maker and went by a new name each week!

[Dorath]

One of the guys I worked with at Pizza Hut wore a nametag that said Crackbaby. All I ever wore were the ex-employee tags.

[blas87]

At the grocery store, I was Mike for a night :) We did however get in some nice trouble when caught.

[ReadyToRetire]

When I worked at a pizza joint, one of the drivers wore a nametag that read "Please Tip".
He got away with it for a little while.

[crazylegs]

At my last job a chap made a name badge titled 'angel', took about 6 months for a sup to realise!

[Becks]

Back when I was working the morning shift all the time, some of us in the hot foods department switched name tags.

What made it even more funny is that I was the only female working.

At my last job a chap made a name badge titled 'angel', took about 6 months for a sup to realise!

There are PLENTY of guys named Angel.

[BookstoreEscapee]

When people misplaced their name tags or left them home or whatever, they often would just grab someone else's that was hanging around. Personally I just avoided wearing it altogether. Though for a while I had my real name on one side and "Bob" on the other.

When I was in college I went to Busch Gardens in Florida with some friends over Spring Break one year, and the operator on one of the rides (that we went on several times cuz he was cute ;)) had a tag that said "Miguel"...somehow his coworker looked much more likely to be a "Miguel" than this guy...

[Lingering Grin]

Nametag hijinks get people fired? That has to be a joke. At my theatre, people were swapping tags on a fairly regular basis. And one guy managed to get ahold of the label maker and went by a new name each week!


Yup, it was common at my theater too. The managers even got in on it. All of the managers (who wear suits and these shiny, gold, metal name plates) switched they're name tags with the regular employees (who all wear these ugly blue vests, and crappy white, plastic name tags).

So everyone running registers, had these nice name plates that read "Manager" on em. :D


Also, my friend was a supervisor, the only difference between our two uniforms is the color of the vest. The lowly employees wear blue, supervisors wear red. We switched vests, and we got away with it until the GM noticed. (The other two managers on duty that night noticed too, but they're friends and thought it was funny). The GM thought it was funny too, but had us switch back.

Best part though? My friend is like 3 times my size, so he's wearing my vest that barely comes down to his belly button, and he can't even close, and I'm practically SWIMMING in his vest. Yet... none of the customers seemed to notice, even though we were standing right next to each other....

[Millahtyme1983]

When I first started my supermarket job we used to pull nametag pranks on each other. Most of us kept our nametags on our hats and would just throw our hat on when we came in, so it wasn't uncommon to put your hat on without noticing somebody had used the label maker and some tape to change the name on your nametag. The best one was this one guy we nicknamed Texas because he looked just like Kerry Von Erich (aka the Texas Tornado), the guy went a full week before noticing it, he absolutley couldn't figure out how the customers knew his nickname.

[Miffed]

Messing with nametags is fun XD


For awhile I wore the name "Latoya", surprisingly very few people noticed a skinny white guy with a black female name. The people who did notice got a good laugh out of it.

[Dreamstalker]

No nametags at my store (yay), but I'll wear my Ghostbusters International tag* into work; most of the time I forgot to take it off my jacket from a game, notice it when I get in and pin it on my shirt. A good percentage of the regulars now call me "Ray"; I'll answer to either name really.

* For a while during games, we would swap nametags whenever two or more of us were close enough to do so. Confused the hell out of the GM and led to the house rule that everyone's nametags had to be sewn on prior to the game, under the threat of the GM doing it themselves while the player was in uniform. One person decided to challenge it and was lucky he had 2 layers under his uniform (it's not really possible to accurately sew anything while it's being worn, at least not these).

[laundryhater]

My husband told me this one from his Pizza Hut days:

They had dishwasher everyone nicknamed "Dish Monster". She had scraggly hair, was always hungry, ate a lot and didn't speak in sentences (just kinda grunted words at people). Picture Jabba The Hut washing dishes at Pizza Hut.

Well Dish Monster had this habit of pointing at anyone near her and grunting the name of a food.

What's even more bizarre was that she would call people the same food name each time.

So the employees made nametags. I can't remember them all but my favorite was Josh's nametage. It said "Pasta Primevera" because that's what Dish Monster always called him.

Laundryhater

[powerboy]

I done that before. But once, when I was on the Cart Crew at Walmart. Well, since I came on, I was the second guy on carts. So I was an Assistant Manager of Carts. It was an inside joke to me and a couple of other Cart Guys. I got in trouble for that, dammit. But it was worth it.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

I done that before. But once, when I was on the Cart Crew at Walmart. Well, since I came on, I was the second guy on carts. So I was an Assistant Manager of Carts.

:lol: That's a good one.

I, however, prefer the term "Cart procurement and retrieval specialist". But that is too long to fit on a nametag.

[Linda]

At my local cinema, they have spare nametags for people who forget theirs. Their usual tags have both first and surname on, and the spares are no different.

So far I've spotted:

Erin Brockovich
Peter Parker
Clark Kent
James Kirk
Bruce Wayne
Dorothy Gale
Jack Sparrow

[DGoddessChardonnay]

Half the time, I forget to put my nametag on . . . it's usually buried in the bottom of my purse.

Only time anyone says anything to me about it is if we're expecting company. Otherwise, nobody thinks to say anything to me.

And no, it doesn't stop customers from asking THE question. I can have it on and I'll still have customers asking me . . .

As for whether that can get a person fired, I have yet to see it happen.;)

[Sylvia727]

Right after I got hired, corporate did a sweep of our bakery and decreed that nametags must be worn at all times. So two guys, Scott and Dan, switched tags and stayed switched. Everyone else called them by their right names, and they were both so Anglo that corporate didn't notice. One night I was working with Scott and I kept calling him Dan. I was new, and I had just met 40 people. I was reading the nametags. Scott was polite about it, never letting on that Dan wasn't his name, until my trainer called him Scott. I was so embarrassed. :o

[Sparky]

At my local cinema, they have spare nametags for people who forget theirs. Their usual tags have both first and surname on, and the spares are no different.

So far I've spotted:

Erin Brockovich
Peter Parker
Clark Kent
James Kirk
Bruce Wayne
Dorothy Gale
Jack Sparrow

That's terrrible!

It's CAPTAIN Jack Sparrow!

[Pagan]

At my last job a chap made a name badge titled 'angel', took about 6 months for a sup to realise!

There are PLENTY of guys named Angel.

Yeah, got bunches of 'em here, too. With the Spanish pronounciation.

James Kirk

That's terrrible!

It's CAPTAIN Jack Sparrow!

You beat me to it, but you forgot Capt. James T. Kirk! :lol:

[Linda]

:lol: I'm usually full blown SC when I see them. Call them "captain" Heheheh.

Luckily I know a lot of the cinema guys so they don't roll their eyes at me!

[mariamousie1]

My mom once went to Lee Valley and her cashier was a man who's nametag said "Anne". Maybe it was the same situation? Or that guy was just really self-confident. :D

[Crazeyal]

Name tags?? (http://malfunctionjunction.net/?p=17)

[smileyeagle1021]

not really name tag related but it was hella funny what one of my coworkers did at the movie theatre i worked at. We still used the old fashioned theatre signs (the ones you had to put the letters into, not the electric scrollboard ones) and one day he put on the back side of one of the theatre signs (you could see it walking out of the theatre, but managers never checked back there) saying "for a good time call (and his phone number)"
oh did he get in trouble when the manager finally did notice it three weeks later.

[justZu]

Back in the dark ages, when I was a teenager working at McD's I would wear my nametag upside down. Whenever a customer would notice and say something I would look down at it and say "Nope, its OK I can read it just fine". I remember thinking this was hilarious. I'm surprised I didn't get into trouble for being a smartass. I guess customers had a sense of humor way back then. :rolleyes: