Nicknames at the workplace

[RecoveringKinkoid]

Hehehehe....my first name means "Queen" and my husband calls me "Princess." I'm doubly doomed!

[Spiffy McMoron]

At work, we have a shipper/receiver named Patrick. He's the one who has to set aside all of the special orders for mechanics and customers. He's not very good at his job, so most of the time, he's "Fucking Patrick!"

[symposes]

theres one more guy i have the displeasure of working with, that has a few nicknames...

Floyd is the most recent one.(long story, but its a play on Brick in the Wall.)
Jackass and a**hole are some too.
Noone likes him, and he treats everyone like dirt(this is why we dont like him, he didnt start this stuff just because we dont like him, trust me he earned this.), unless they outrank him.
Since he got promoted up to where he is, he has become even worse then he was.

We call the retirees, or guys who retire then come back to work, Full timers, Old timers, and Short timers. just depends on their story.

We call one retiree the Nanny, because he is very critical about doing things right, even if he has to stop someone and do it right for them. He is a very nice guy though.

Then there is Boo-Boo, personally i hate this nickname. as near as i can tell its a play on a famous mythical character, or atleast fictional(Something along the lines of Aladdin, and Sinbad.). Unless he actually exsisted. Its not for me though, its for this other guy. I THINK Floyd started this one. Thats probly the biggest reason i hate this nickname.


We had a supervisor we called J. Ed
short for J Edgar Hoover.
Hoover for vaccuum.
He was a real suck up.

THen there is rocket man, hes a retiree.
He didnt secure the conduit tube on the top of his truck, then one day had to slam the breaks. inertia took over and viola the tube is in the back seat of the car in front of him. They actually made a plaque and presented it to him. actually had Rocketman engraved on it.
He didnt care for that one much.... But he is the office 1 upper.

Thats all i can think of, and know the reasons behind. there are maybe a handful of others, but i dont know where they came from, and i usually dont use them anyway.

[Seanette]

Then there is Boo-Boo, personally i hate this nickname. as near as i can tell its a play on a famous mythical character, or atleast fictional(Something along the lines of Aladdin, and Sinbad.). Unless he actually exsisted.

The first thing that came to my mind on this one was Yogi Bear's little sidekick.

[Becks]

Let's see, at work I'm usually referred to as Vanessa, Lover, Sexy, Bitch, Bad Girl, White Meat*, Red Delicious**, Chica, Brat, Wisconsin, Sunshine, "my girlfriend" <------currently semi-retired, and other aliases.

Nicknames (most bestowed by me) others at work have include Chica Bonita, Lover 1, Lover 2, Slash, Russian Rocket, at work boyfriend, #1 produce boyfriend, Mohammed, Troublemaker, Sweeness, Babycakes, Bait, Youngun, produce boyfriend the second, and one that may be considered offensive, so I'll leave it off the list.

Of course, there are many more, for both lists, but my brain is taking a nap right now.

*I was given this nickname because I'm very pale, for the most part
**I was given this one because I have very rosy cheeks, especially from working in a refrigerated cave

[tacohuman]

even though they've been out for quite some time now, after the incident in this thread my coworkers started calling me stitchy or mcstitchy (i have a mclastname), and it's stuck.

[DesignFox]

We call one of our managers Buttons because at halloween we were all allowed to dress up, she dressed up like a witch, and our District Manager who was visiting for the day looked her up and down and told her she was "cute as a button."

I'm a pretty good sales person, so when we started an upsell program one weekend, I hit a real hot streak...the Store manager started calling me the "Upsell Demon"

And of course, when you work at summer camp for the girl scouts, you all have to get a "camp name." Mine was Fox Other counselors I talk to still know me as Fox and I still know them by their camp names.

[Crosshair]

Lets see:

One of our door greeters in a wheelchair is nicknamed, "Trouble" because she made a nametag that said that.

There is Banshee lady, who seems to screech over the PA. Even worse is she works the fitting room, where they take incoming calls. Have not heard her lately, mabee she moved to a different dept.

Big Brian and Little Brian: One is about 6' 2" and the other is about 5' 6". Little brian moved so all we have left it Big Brian

Big Deb and Little Deb: Same thing except LD is about 4' 10" and BD is about 5' 10". Sometimes we call LD "Little Debbie" She thinks it's funny.

Recieving Ron: Our store managers name is Ron so we have to have a way to tell them apart when we make pages for them.


Here are some nicknames I have had:

Postal: Mainly because I am into guns, sell them in Sporting goods, and know the answer to just about every gun question. I always tell new people i'm into little pranks that you can do over and over, you can only go postal once and you can't joke about it afterwards. I usualy pull something on them afterwards.

B-Dog: From the TV station. One of the directors gave it to me.

BAW: My "everyday" nickname. It came from when Halo came out for the X-Box. You had to name your character so I just used my initials. The rest is history.

[RecoveringKinkoid]

Ha! At Kinko's, we had a couple customers who's first names were "Fucking", too!

Of course, let's not forget The Funkstain, commonly known in other departments as "The Freak" and known also among the crew as "The Cryptkeeper", "Norman", "Smeghead" and "One Hour Photo." And sometimes simply "that G -ded Smelly Mfer."

[wagegoth]

My nickname at my first real job was Ice Princess, bestowed by a coworker who received my full freezing-death-glare.

At a couple of places, I was Kid. I looked like I was in high school until I was almost 30, and it was used by the older women I worked with. Boring and annoying.

At one place, I worked with another [wagegoth] in the same department, but she was day shift and I was graveyard. One night I jokingly told one of the lawyers that I was the Vampire [wagegoth]. He, of course, told everyone else, so I became Vampire [wagegoth] to everyone in the office.

I have a name that is not unusual but not common. I am regularly called Linda, Deborah or Rhonda. I just assume that if someone calls one of those names and I'm around that they're talking to me.

[nick1091]

At work I'm Banga, which is close to the first part of my last name.

A former manager who was prone to fly off the handle was dubbed "Furious George."

Other nicknames around the office are Mr. Stupid, Father Time, and Tons of Fun.

[symposes]

When i work with the Russian. They call us Russian Roulette. It was actually funny when i first heard it, and i still get a kick out of it.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

I have a new nickname for the elctronics specialist at my store, which I can't use to his face, but around the third-shifters I could. After all, I don't think anybody likes to be called "The Tragic Result of a Horribly Mis-aimed Handjob."

Seriously, this guy is a freakin' waste of skin. All he does all day is strut around like he's cock of the walk, and delegates all his work to the other people in his department.

Yesterday he got us in big trouble with our district LP guy. For one thing, we left a PS3 sitting behind the counter in electronics. Those have to be locked up in the cash office. It would be much too easy for someone to reach behind the counter, snatch the PS3, and be out the emergency exit a few feet away. Secondly, he left a cart full of electronics auto pull merchandise out in the department unattended (again, somebody could grab something and escape out the emergency exit.)

On top of that, he's a pig. He and his wife are both swingers and he keeps trying to hit on this one younger girl in electronics who clearly has no interest in seeing him.

Speaking of his wife, her nickname is "Alice the Goon" because she's a really big, goony-looking thing. She works in the cash office, which means TROAHMHJ shouldn't be allowed to run a cash register, but somehow still does.

The two of them together are called "The monkeys", because of their swinging.

[M_Sinistrari]

Really haven't had many work nicknames. Some at the video retailer would call me Midget since at 5' 2", I was the shortest person in the district. At the tech job I had before the last one, the supervisor called everyone Pookie. You had to be sharp with picking up any nuances to how he said it to know if he was calling you over.

At the last tech job I was called Beanz since I'd bring in a can of chocolate covered espresso beans and share them around.

[Ringtail Z28]

At Target I got the nickname Hazard or Hazardman, because of the injuries I took on the job and the weird stuff that would happen in the store whenever I was around. I guess I'm a bit of a jinx.