I had a field technician nicknamed the “Ghost “ would never show up at the office. But his work was always done on time if not sooner. He did not like coming to the office. Best technician I ever had.
I herd some people call me that. I also get call Spook because i seem to always have more information than the boss due to the fact i plan ahead for each job.
Seen people like that, a safety officer that was addicted to WOW. Went into work about twice a month for MAYBE 6 hours tops in a month on site. Everything else he had set up to do threw his comp, he got pictures of site, any records, prints. Had it all just going right to him at home while he's running raid bosses.
We had Woody (guy looked like woody from Toy story, especially the jeans), and then Squirrel (never at his desk, always wandering around the shop, and very short attention span). Normally the ones who are not going to make it will be called by their nickname more than their real name. I can't even recall Woody and Squirrels real names
Ramen - thinks all jobs take 2 minutes Wheelbarrow - only works when pushed Cordless - charges all night but only works for 2 hours Deck Chair - folds under pressure G - Spot - you can never find him Sensor Light - only works when someone walks past Pothole - always in the road 10 mm Socket - can never be found when you need him Limo - carries 8 other people
I had to think a minute to see the difference between G spot and 10mm but I guess the g spot just can't be found AT ALL while 10mm is always on hand except the times you actually need him lol
I got nicknamed Boogyman by the office girls at a job I had because despite being a real big guy, I walk quietly enough to ‘sneak up on’ people and kept accidentally scaring the crap out of em!
We have a plant leader that was the same 6'5" over 300lbs and you never heard him move. I told him I was going to put a cow bell around his neck, or a backup buzzer on his butt; that he was dangerous and was going to get someone hurt when they were startled. He was not amused, but he was one of the best bosses we ever had. His favorite saying when someone asked how to do something was "That is why we pay you the big bucks, I tell you what I what done, you get it done"?
I was a laborer at a plaster company. First week on the job every time someone asked me to do something I repeated what they said to make sure I heard it right and that I understood. They called me Pete for the rest of the time I worked there.
As a business owner and a woman, I personally LOVE it when people are active listeners! I freaking LOVE it when a new employee asks fucking questions because it means that they WANT to get it right the first time and not waste MY time correcting them. The peons working with you obviously aren't that bright, so don't waste energy on them. Come work for me instead; I'll appreciate your questions and time!
@@dianna-lynnlundgren180 well as I get what you are saying and totally agree, As I still use this technique to understand my customers better, but the people on the job site were just being guys on a job site/shop. I would actually be more offended if the didn’t tease/joke with me as it means they don’t like me.
When I worked as a lineman for the phone company we had a huge 2 year reconditioning project and two guys on the crew would study the allotted time on splice locations and find ones that needed little to no actual work with high allocations of time. They would always be the first to a neighborhood and go put fresh stickers on them so they looked done. Then they would go back around throughout the week and slowly do the conditioning while the rest of us did the hard locations. We called them biscuits 1&2 as they sopped up all the gravy.😊
They called this one girl at work biscuit but it was because she wore her jeans so tight that when they ripped it looked like a can of biscuits when they pop open. I'm a woman and probably shouldn't have laughed but the guys were right. Can of biscuits right there. Lol
I used to work with a guy we called dumbass. We found a bottle of bubbles on the job once, and we were passing them around until it got to dumbass. He tried to blow bubbles three times before we had to point out that he still had his face shield on. He later got fired for accidently ruining the boss' new truck by splattering it with an acidic wood sealer.
We have a dude in the company named Sam. He’s the dumbest non-Biden voter I’ve ever met. Now every time someone does something stupid, he gets called Sam. Don’t be a Sam guys.
Once gave a nickname to a guy I worked with after school when I was 14. Called him hamster because he smelled like slightly old hamster tank shavings. 20 YEARS LATER and he still gets called Hamster. Gotta be careful with nicknames, he didnt deserve to be called hamster by his own wife.
That reminds me of someone that works at a local Aldi. This girl was a cashier and they're taught do it fast and efficiently. She is one of the best and fastest. Well she was trying to get a job as a cashier at another local grocery store that offered better pay and benefits. If I remember correctly she was hire but they let her go after a few days (no firing or anything) because they said she was too the fast because customers had concerns of her missing or even double+ scanning their items.
I worked for a guy we called flash… 5’7 120 lbs soaking wet. He’d fall asleep takin a dump, couldn’t eat an ice cream cone before it melted all down his arm… Then one day some thug tried to rob us. Don (flash), had his gun out of his boot so fast the robber slid on the tile floor and tripped all over himself trying to get back out the door after he ran into the door that was locked on that side. That’s when he got the name Flash. RIP Don.
I used to work with a guy we called cement head, and he answered to it. Every time he walked by me I was surprised he didn't have to stop walking to breathe as it was obvious he didn't have enough active brain cells to do both at once.
Hahaha love em. I think the only nickname I ever gave anyone at a job was 9 Toes or Johnny 9 Toes (got the idea from Nine-Toes from Borderlands). It was when I worked for my uncle's remodeling comp. See my uncle liked wearing these slip on slider shoes that you can see part of front of your foot and toes. It's because they was comfortable and was easy for him to put on due to my uncle's back issues. Well my uncle goes to cut a hole in the floor for a sink drain line using a hole saw. Even though other people said they will do it my uncle done it himself. Well the hole saw jumped, landed on top of his foot by his toes, and cut his big toe deep by time he reacted to let got of the trigger on the drill. Thank goodness he didn't cut it off or lose it from how deep it cut. So because of that I started calling him 9 Toe or Johnny 9 Toes during the time his toe was healing. The craziest thing about that whole story is the fact that my uncle still wanted to continue working even though everyone was trying to get him to go to the hospital. It pretty much took everyone working their to team up against him to get him to go to the hospital.
My grandad (WW2 veteran) was a big time construction guy saw one of his employees not using a reciprocating saw to his liking yanked it out of his hand and probably because he was angry accidentally cut off 3 of his fingers he put them on ice and wanted to continue working one of his foremen had to convince him to go to the hospital by not letting him have his cigarettes,he had to have them reattached the old fashioned way of them sowing your hand and your fingers to your stomach temporary so the skin would grow over the area he cut them
We had a production engineer I called the "Grand Engineering Overlord" all the time. He always scared the crap out of most of the employees. He'd come out and deliver dictates as if from on high. Me and him argued alot,... hahaha. I miss that guy, but sometimes his people skills just sucked. Everyone scattering when we really went in on each other was always funny as hell too.
I work for a restoration landscaping company, we go in and fix the grass, road, sidewalk and any interlocking stone that got dug up during construction activities. Last year, we got a contract fixing grass in an entire city that got their telecom lines upgraded to fiber-optic cables by the local isp (internet service provider). Those suckers are supposed to be buried 6 inches deep at a minimum. This was my first year with the company and they started calling me Locator because every time we found a cable that was too shallow or a shallow cable got broken as we were edging the cuts, it was always me that found/broke them. We never got in trouble for it because the crews that did the initial work weren't burying the cables deep enough.
@@RiffRaffMama. The roots of the grass that gets put on top of the dirt the cables are buried in tends to keep them in place underground even in heavy rain. But you'd be correct in thinking that 6 inches is terribly shallow for cables of that nature, but 6 inches is the minimum...they CAN be buried deerper, but not very often in the areas I work in
Our Forman was called the flash because he was more interested in the thrill and chase of the new future projects then finishing the boring current project
That was the owner of a furniture shop I worked for. He was always selling projects but never getting us material to build the stuff. He was so bad at doing payroll that the manager (high school dropout) had to help him do the books. The company eventually folded when his customers sued for not getting furniture on time.
We’ve had a few nicknames that were brutal on one job. Tumbleweed: rolls around the job sites doesn’t do anything until quitting time Foot or toe: furthest thing from a hand. Gravy: gets all the good work Touchdown: guy acts like he has a touch of Down syndrome Meatgazer or bonehawk: old military jargon for officers on duty for the piss test We have used blister in the past but I’ll have to use some of these new ones
Years ago on a loading dock, we had a guy named Jack. He was always MIA. He put more effort into avoiding work than it would have took to just do the job. So we all started calling him me-off took him a month to figure it out. Was he ever pissed. This was on the early 80s so no one got in trouble.
Just applied this me off to a "Jack" that that runs my machines of a night, he found it hilarious. Same guy is Jack Jr, I make a small finger motion and a jacking hand motion with the other. His dad i would wave with one hand and Jack motion the other and say Hi Jack. Hilarious times
brehhh glove had me rolling. I'm 10000% a glove to 😆 I'll get shit done for and work hard no problem, but pair me up with someone who knows what they're doing 😆
At a tree job I had I would take a piss break multiple times an hour I don’t know what was going on😂. I was dubbed the sprinkler, “sprink”, from there on out
Sounds like I guy I worked with. He came back from a piss and had a bottle of water in his hand. Told him fine but his next piss break was 2hr from now. He trashed the water.
That’s me on the job. I rarely eat breakfast, and drink at least one energy drink before break. That’s a recipe for runnin to the John every 30 minutes.
Where I came up from, any employee that wasnt worth the oxygen, his nickname was another persons name, decided amongst the group based on what name would fit. If jack was worthless and looked like a Dave. His name is now Dave.
I've been called that a few times because of my work ethic I get my part the job done ahead of schedule including prep work for other things that are weeks before they are needed to be done. I was bored out of my mind with nothing else to do.
New guy on the job informs us, during the safety meeting, he has 4 kids. My buddy from northeast Philly chimes in with. What you don't know how to read a book. Now keep in mind this was day one first thing in the morning. I would put up the ball busting skills of northeast Philly against anybody in the nation. Pure art.
When I was an apprentice we had a new office girl start at the company. She called me Jeff all the time for about 3 years. When I eventually told her that my name was Richard, she was mortified that she'd been calling me Jeff all that time. 🤣🤣🤣
I hear these nick names all the time ! Mine is spooky and any number of other bad names as I am the safety man !! The young guys are razzed pretty hard till we figure out if they are worth a crap ! But it is all in good fun ! My favorite thing is to listen to all the Latinos and listen to their crap for a week or so and then break out my Spanish and watch their mouths drop! Then I explain I have been a safety man in 21 different countries since 1996 and I own a farm and apartment in South America and that my wife and family are Latinos! I have a lot of fun on my projects and am pretty laid back ! Respect gets respect !
I've called a few Blister. Then there is the Banker, shows up late and leaves early. Then there is Houdini, one minute he's there. Then bam,he disappears on ya'. Like magic he's gone. Can't forget half-a-star.
I'm retired now but used to be in EMS. On several occasions we picked up people that I was friends with and had known for years and had to ask they're real names cause I had no idea! Roscoe is my favorite by the way. Maybe because I'm old!
I had a boss with a mini hand. I mean a mine hand, one perfect one mini, and I couldn't help it we gave him the nickname. Handy. Every time I would see him. Hey boss can you give me a hand. Ohhh the laughter. And no I don't feel bad.
Reminds me of my old summer job working in prefab and welding. We built metal carports and covers and the like. Sometimes metal sheds, too. Nearly everyone had a nickname. The boss man was always Boss Hogg, mainly because he never did any work and just sat in his air conditioned office to avoid getting dirty. Plus, he was a good 'ol boy. Next was the second in command, people called him Hoss since he looked like the guy from Bonanza but he worked just as hard with the crew. There was one welder nicknamed Sparky due to him nearly electrocuting himself when an electrician rewired an amp for the plasma welder. Then there was the old man of the crew that everyone called Fish. Whenever he took his dentures out he looked like a fish gulping for water. Me, I had the misfortune of being called Scorch. I had just gotten a military high and tight haircut for the first day of work because I didn't want to be sweating and having my hair stick to me. Not even an hour in the sun and my scalp and the top of my ears are burnt. And aloe vera wasn't helping. There were others that had nicknames worse than mine, but they didn't last too long.
Lol. I said about one useless partner I had: he’s voice activated. My partner now and I have a helper we call “Brick”, because he is always in the way and you just trip over him, no other uses. My partner’s name is a term for leaving early or grabbing a day off in the week: “Taking a Belden”. Nicknames and word slang are just universal parts of any tool using profession.
😂 I was laughing soooo hard that I was crying. 1. By me hitting the 'Like' button only one does absolutely no justice for what you do. 2. Why do you not have a contract with Comedy Central?? I rank you right up there with my #1 favorite comedian all times even to this day is Eddie Murphy. 🤣 😂 🤣
Knew a guy when working fast food that I nicknamed "Killionaire" as both a Halo reference, and a reference to how quickly he could prep food during dinner rush.
I had this one kid I worked with for a very short period of time and I secretly called him Clocksucker. Because he was only there for a paycheck but never did anything. Hence the reason we only worked together for a very short period of time
This 13 year old who weighed about 250lbs started hanging around our computer store in the early 2000s. Darrell's nickname was LFD. It stood for Little Fat Darrell.
My crew got: Beaver - Builds the weirdest contractions that somehow work. Rhino - Strong mf, but he sleeps on the job. Broom (Me) - Works when you really push him, otherwise he just leans somewhere. Rabbit - Fast worker but he leaves shit everywhere.
My boss always jokes with me about being a blister, and yes, it is a joke he says it to everyone. We have a guy called Casper, disappeares whenever there is work to be done. Captain Clipboard is another one.
@VTX00128 our captain clipboard is one of our PMOs, basically the senior hourly guy on shift. I work in a paper mill, and he got the name because he is more worried about doing his checklists than pretty much anything else.
I had another guy I called "Top Fuel", short for "Top Fuel Ronster". "The Ronster", or "The Monster Ronster" was a little old guy that walked real slow, always had a mistake that needed to fixing right at quitting time, and was ALWAYS the last one on the work van. His real name was Ron.
Hired in and my trainer’s nickname was “Corn” years later asked about it , they told me because of the painting “American Gothic” the old guy with the pitchfork-he was a dead ringer.
While doing investigations I was given the nickname Armageddon because I took on the difficult investigations that spider webbed into several issues. After an especially ugly investigation they decided that name wasn’t enough and added Darth to it, so from that point on I was referred to as Darth Armageddon.
😁🤣😁🤣 We always had nicknames for co workers and customers alike. 🙄 Looking forward to seeing more of your work. REEEEEEEEEEEEE ✌ 💙 🧂 BECAUSE THE SALT MUST FLOW 🧂 ❤ 🥰
I had a summer factory job with a pretty high turnover, where everyone's name defaulted to Sam. If someone called you Sam, accept it. If you don't know someone's name, call them Sam. Nobody's allowed to get butthurt.
Mine was Evergreen. I told my supervisor that i (19 years old) had 19 years experience in Breathing. She told me i needed to get a pet plant to replace all the oxygen i had wasted. And I'm kinda tall. If i ever said or did anything stupid, the guys would tell me "Evergreen...go get a $%#&ing plant".
They got one that the employees use that the owners generally don't know about.. "daddy's money" and you know when it applies and when it doesn't.. trust me.. there is something to be said for a man that will tell you to do something then come help you over a man that will just say "i pay you to do it" because that ain't the whole point.. you can actually get your guys workin harder if you in there too.. my 2 pennies about leadership over being a boss sry..
I worked with a guy we called big for nothing. He was a bodybuilder, his words, but my God did he bitch about picking up even 4 30ft 5 bar and carrying them. And I mean after 2 trips he was saying it was too heavy, so we started calling him that because he was a big guy and I don't mean fat, it was mostly muscle. Another was 2 ton, fat kid that one day jumped up into the back of a truck and the boss yells over "hey that is only a 2 ton truck"
I work with my dad from time to time, he calls me sandman because I'm quite proficient with a pneumatic sander, I call him silverback because he's big, has graying hair and likes to act all tough and assert his dominance
There's nothing like construction site jargon and there's nothing like earning your nickname. You may not like it in the beginning but you'll definitely learn to laugh about it.
Went on a job site asking for a couple of cars to be moved so we (gas company) can put in a service. The lead guy (carpenter?) told me that they had two newbies: Paul and Nick. Henceforth, they were known as "Paul-Sack" and "Nick-Head". 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Mine was either tractor or steam shovel. I was told steam shovel to my face. Great at digging holes and doing simple jobs, but I did not have a high gear. I got working and could work the whole day, But the pace I was at was the pace I was at
I've worked with several we called 71%ers. 70% to pass your trade qualifications. The other one was pipeline. Anything you say or do around them gets a direct pipeline straight to the boss. And a couple of helpers/labourers have been called Mensa.
I had a field technician nicknamed the “Ghost “ would never show up at the office. But his work was always done on time if not sooner. He did not like coming to the office. Best technician I ever had.
I herd some people call me that. I also get call Spook because i seem to always have more information than the boss due to the fact i plan ahead for each job.
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Seen people like that, a safety officer that was addicted to WOW. Went into work about twice a month for MAYBE 6 hours tops in a month on site.
Everything else he had set up to do threw his comp, he got pictures of site, any records, prints. Had it all just going right to him at home while he's running raid bosses.
I was that guy when I was doing field work. I hated going into the office for ANYTHING!!!
We have a few guys with nicknames. One is MexiSmurf. One is white shadow. Another is Rainbow. He shows up after the rain/job is done.
Rainbows good lol. Why the other two?
@@Rams8148
MexiSmurf is short and Mexican. Shadow follows me everywhere and is white. 😄.
We had Woody (guy looked like woody from Toy story, especially the jeans), and then Squirrel (never at his desk, always wandering around the shop, and very short attention span). Normally the ones who are not going to make it will be called by their nickname more than their real name. I can't even recall Woody and Squirrels real names
@@Midnightgamer00
To funny.
@@Midnightgamer00 the place I work if you don’t have a nickname of some sort you’re not liked and probably will be ran off.
Ramen - thinks all jobs take 2 minutes
Wheelbarrow - only works when pushed
Cordless - charges all night but only works for 2 hours
Deck Chair - folds under pressure
G - Spot - you can never find him
Sensor Light - only works when someone walks past
Pothole - always in the road
10 mm Socket - can never be found when you need him
Limo - carries 8 other people
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I had to think a minute to see the difference between G spot and 10mm but I guess the g spot just can't be found AT ALL while 10mm is always on hand except the times you actually need him lol
Now that's good
That is good
Brilliant mate thanks 😂😂😂
I got nicknamed Boogyman by the office girls at a job I had because despite being a real big guy, I walk quietly enough to ‘sneak up on’ people and kept accidentally scaring the crap out of em!
I haven’t gotten that name yet but I’m the same exact way
I do that to its so fun I don't even have to try
We have a plant leader that was the same 6'5" over 300lbs and you never heard him move. I told him I was going to put a cow bell around his neck, or a backup buzzer on his butt; that he was dangerous and was going to get someone hurt when they were startled. He was not amused, but he was one of the best bosses we ever had. His favorite saying when someone asked how to do something was "That is why we pay you the big bucks, I tell you what I what done, you get it done"?
have not earned that title yet, but same LOL
You sound like a real creep
I was a laborer at a plaster company. First week on the job every time someone asked me to do something I repeated what they said to make sure I heard it right and that I understood. They called me Pete for the rest of the time I worked there.
As in 're peat' ?
@@carmenburton4918 exactly
As a business owner and a woman, I personally LOVE it when people are active listeners! I freaking LOVE it when a new employee asks fucking questions because it means that they WANT to get it right the first time and not waste MY time correcting them. The peons working with you obviously aren't that bright, so don't waste energy on them. Come work for me instead; I'll appreciate your questions and time!
@@dianna-lynnlundgren180 well as I get what you are saying and totally agree, As I still use this technique to understand my customers better, but the people on the job site were just being guys on a job site/shop. I would actually be more offended if the didn’t tease/joke with me as it means they don’t like me.
Weird concept but that is bromances
When I worked as a lineman for the phone company we had a huge 2 year reconditioning project and two guys on the crew would study the allotted time on splice locations and find ones that needed little to no actual work with high allocations of time. They would always be the first to a neighborhood and go put fresh stickers on them so they looked done. Then they would go back around throughout the week and slowly do the conditioning while the rest of us did the hard locations.
We called them biscuits 1&2 as they sopped up all the gravy.😊
Lmao I love that
Yup biscuits are around everywhere. I do bodywork walk by a stout metal work job ask if they got them biscuits.
Man that's smart 🤓
It took me half your post thinking "why the fuck does a phone company have a football team" to realizing you mean utility lines.
They called this one girl at work biscuit but it was because she wore her jeans so tight that when they ripped it looked like a can of biscuits when they pop open. I'm a woman and probably shouldn't have laughed but the guys were right. Can of biscuits right there. Lol
I used to work with a guy we called dumbass. We found a bottle of bubbles on the job once, and we were passing them around until it got to dumbass. He tried to blow bubbles three times before we had to point out that he still had his face shield on. He later got fired for accidently ruining the boss' new truck by splattering it with an acidic wood sealer.
* no signs of intelligent life here. *
That would have earned him the name 'Bubbles'
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We have a dude in the company named Sam. He’s the dumbest non-Biden voter I’ve ever met. Now every time someone does something stupid, he gets called Sam. Don’t be a Sam guys.
Once gave a nickname to a guy I worked with after school when I was 14. Called him hamster because he smelled like slightly old hamster tank shavings. 20 YEARS LATER and he still gets called Hamster. Gotta be careful with nicknames, he didnt deserve to be called hamster by his own wife.
His wife calls him hamster for a very different reason 🤣
Naw, it's a good nickname, or at least not terrible. Guy i work with is called coleslaw. I still don't know why. That nickname sucks.
Two guys I met, one called roch, other bettle. Bugs. Even their wives.
Biscuit because they get all the gravy work.
I had a guy that I used to call Atari because he only had one thumb and Atari was the only system I could think of where the controller had one button
I Worked with Flash, he had 2 speeds and if you don't like his normal speed you really won't like his second speed.
That reminds me of someone that works at a local Aldi. This girl was a cashier and they're taught do it fast and efficiently. She is one of the best and fastest. Well she was trying to get a job as a cashier at another local grocery store that offered better pay and benefits. If I remember correctly she was hire but they let her go after a few days (no firing or anything) because they said she was too the fast because customers had concerns of her missing or even double+ scanning their items.
I worked for a guy we called flash… 5’7 120 lbs soaking wet. He’d fall asleep takin a dump, couldn’t eat an ice cream cone before it melted all down his arm… Then one day some thug tried to rob us. Don (flash), had his gun out of his boot so fast the robber slid on the tile floor and tripped all over himself trying to get back out the door after he ran into the door that was locked on that side. That’s when he got the name Flash. RIP Don.
@@trevorjarvis3050That’s the type of dude every job site needs. Small, unassuming, but not to be fucked with.
I used to work with a guy we called cement head, and he answered to it. Every time he walked by me I was surprised he didn't have to stop walking to breathe as it was obvious he didn't have enough active brain cells to do both at once.
I once overheard my boss refer to me as mumbles over the cb when talking to a different employee. I found it funny.
Hahaha love em. I think the only nickname I ever gave anyone at a job was 9 Toes or Johnny 9 Toes (got the idea from Nine-Toes from Borderlands). It was when I worked for my uncle's remodeling comp. See my uncle liked wearing these slip on slider shoes that you can see part of front of your foot and toes. It's because they was comfortable and was easy for him to put on due to my uncle's back issues. Well my uncle goes to cut a hole in the floor for a sink drain line using a hole saw. Even though other people said they will do it my uncle done it himself. Well the hole saw jumped, landed on top of his foot by his toes, and cut his big toe deep by time he reacted to let got of the trigger on the drill. Thank goodness he didn't cut it off or lose it from how deep it cut. So because of that I started calling him 9 Toe or Johnny 9 Toes during the time his toe was healing.
The craziest thing about that whole story is the fact that my uncle still wanted to continue working even though everyone was trying to get him to go to the hospital. It pretty much took everyone working their to team up against him to get him to go to the hospital.
I only got 5 toes left. What would you call me?
@@JohnDoe-df3zk
Doe 5 Toe..
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No wait..
1 foot..
My grandad (WW2 veteran) was a big time construction guy saw one of his employees not using a reciprocating saw to his liking yanked it out of his hand and probably because he was angry accidentally cut off 3 of his fingers he put them on ice and wanted to continue working one of his foremen had to convince him to go to the hospital by not letting him have his cigarettes,he had to have them reattached the old fashioned way of them sowing your hand and your fingers to your stomach temporary so the skin would grow over the area he cut them
@@nunyabis3067
YOUUCH!!!
Damn that sounded painful
@@JohnDoe-df3zk
Ruler = one foot
I like to call the slackers at work Bisquick because they're some biscuits soaking up all the gravy work
When I read the title I knew there was gonna be something to make me bust out laughing. And there it was right at the end. You don’t disappoint. 😂
We had a production engineer I called the "Grand Engineering Overlord" all the time. He always scared the crap out of most of the employees. He'd come out and deliver dictates as if from on high. Me and him argued alot,... hahaha. I miss that guy, but sometimes his people skills just sucked. Everyone scattering when we really went in on each other was always funny as hell too.
I work for a restoration landscaping company, we go in and fix the grass, road, sidewalk and any interlocking stone that got dug up during construction activities. Last year, we got a contract fixing grass in an entire city that got their telecom lines upgraded to fiber-optic cables by the local isp (internet service provider). Those suckers are supposed to be buried 6 inches deep at a minimum. This was my first year with the company and they started calling me Locator because every time we found a cable that was too shallow or a shallow cable got broken as we were edging the cuts, it was always me that found/broke them. We never got in trouble for it because the crews that did the initial work weren't burying the cables deep enough.
Only 6 inches?? That sounds like a terribly shallow depth! They'd just about surface in heavy rain!
@@RiffRaffMama. The roots of the grass that gets put on top of the dirt the cables are buried in tends to keep them in place underground even in heavy rain. But you'd be correct in thinking that 6 inches is terribly shallow for cables of that nature, but 6 inches is the minimum...they CAN be buried deerper, but not very often in the areas I work in
Our Forman was called the flash because he was more interested in the thrill and chase of the new future projects then finishing the boring current project
Yeah I quit one job due to that shit. Absolutely unbearable.
That was the owner of a furniture shop I worked for. He was always selling projects but never getting us material to build the stuff. He was so bad at doing payroll that the manager (high school dropout) had to help him do the books. The company eventually folded when his customers sued for not getting furniture on time.
When he asked Ricky about finger I already knew that answer. It is a standard way of referring to someone who has not got a chance.
We’ve had a few nicknames that were brutal on one job.
Tumbleweed: rolls around the job sites doesn’t do anything until quitting time
Foot or toe: furthest thing from a hand.
Gravy: gets all the good work
Touchdown: guy acts like he has a touch of Down syndrome
Meatgazer or bonehawk: old military jargon for officers on duty for the piss test
We have used blister in the past but I’ll have to use some of these new ones
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I cant imagine Tumbleweeds lasting long?
@@XFizzlepop-Berrytwist surprisingly he survived a couple months due to being drinking buddies with the sup and was screwing the field engineer
Tumbleweeds are prone to somehow finding their way behind the controls of a Bobcat.
Touchdown damn near killed me.
Years ago on a loading dock, we had a guy named Jack. He was always MIA. He put more effort into avoiding work than it would have took to just do the job. So we all started calling him me-off took him a month to figure it out. Was he ever pissed. This was on the early 80s so no one got in trouble.
Just applied this me off to a "Jack" that that runs my machines of a night, he found it hilarious. Same guy is Jack Jr, I make a small finger motion and a jacking hand motion with the other. His dad i would wave with one hand and Jack motion the other and say Hi Jack. Hilarious times
I'm a glove. 100% I'll get stuff done but you got to tell me what to do.
brehhh glove had me rolling. I'm 10000% a glove to 😆 I'll get shit done for and work hard no problem, but pair me up with someone who knows what they're doing 😆
I guess I’m a glove too lol. The harder those around me work, the harder I’ll work.
Yeah I’m def a glove but mostly cause I’m green as a yard in the summer.
@@AdrianHernandez-ok6mz what do you mean by green?
@@Rose-yx6jqNot seasoned
At a tree job I had I would take a piss break multiple times an hour I don’t know what was going on😂. I was dubbed the sprinkler, “sprink”, from there on out
Sounds like I guy I worked with. He came back from a piss and had a bottle of water in his hand. Told him fine but his next piss break was 2hr from now. He trashed the water.
That’s me on the job. I rarely eat breakfast, and drink at least one energy drink before break. That’s a recipe for runnin to the John every 30 minutes.
Where I came up from, any employee that wasnt worth the oxygen, his nickname was another persons name, decided amongst the group based on what name would fit. If jack was worthless and looked like a Dave. His name is now Dave.
Clockwork, super reliable and always on time, but can never seem to unwind.
I've been called that a few times because of my work ethic I get my part the job done ahead of schedule including prep work for other things that are weeks before they are needed to be done. I was bored out of my mind with nothing else to do.
New guy on the job informs us, during the safety meeting, he has 4 kids. My buddy from northeast Philly chimes in with.
What you don't know how to read a book.
Now keep in mind this was day one first thing in the morning. I would put up the ball busting skills of northeast Philly against anybody in the nation. Pure art.
I can't fault ricky's nicknames.
Had an apprentice show up with a half a set of tool bags, Unipouch. Turned out to be a hard working kid !
When I was an apprentice we had a new office girl start at the company. She called me Jeff all the time for about 3 years. When I eventually told her that my name was Richard, she was mortified that she'd been calling me Jeff all that time. 🤣🤣🤣
Maybe it was left over from previous lifetime(s) you had with her...stranger things!
I hear these nick names all the time !
Mine is spooky and any number of other bad names as I am the safety man !!
The young guys are razzed pretty hard till we figure out if they are worth a crap !
But it is all in good fun !
My favorite thing is to listen to all the Latinos and listen to their crap for a week or so and then break out my Spanish and watch their mouths drop!
Then I explain I have been a safety man in 21 different countries since 1996 and I own a farm and apartment in South America and that my wife and family are Latinos!
I have a lot of fun on my projects and am pretty laid back !
Respect gets respect !
You seem cool, but you still a nuisance 😂😂
you know it’s bad when the safety man isn’t doing this for hr
He's still upset about getting called useless without his clipboard
I thought this was part 2 from safety man clipboard episode 👍
I've called a few Blister. Then there is the Banker, shows up late and leaves early. Then there is Houdini, one minute he's there. Then bam,he disappears on ya'. Like magic he's gone. Can't forget half-a-star.
I'm retired now but used to be in EMS. On several occasions we picked up people that I was friends with and had known for years and had to ask they're real names cause I had no idea! Roscoe is my favorite by the way. Maybe because I'm old!
That’s one of the best ones yet.
You always give your work friends cool nicknames.
Picked up the nickname ironblock when I did roofing. Not the best nor the worst in performance, however easy to mantain and very reliable.
Lamont. Gets um every time 🤣
Damn Ricky with the honesty as usual , "dumbass" ouch 😂 Isnt it Ricky who sleeps at the Boss house? 😳
Might be slept at the bosses house now lol
There is this guy we nicknamed Goldy because he swims in a circle and forgets what he was doing. 🐟
I had a boss with a mini hand. I mean a mine hand, one perfect one mini, and I couldn't help it we gave him the nickname. Handy. Every time I would see him. Hey boss can you give me a hand. Ohhh the laughter. And no I don't feel bad.
Worked with a guy same problem said when he went out with new girl always held his “ part” with little hand so she would be impressed. Lol😂
Reminds me of my old summer job working in prefab and welding. We built metal carports and covers and the like. Sometimes metal sheds, too. Nearly everyone had a nickname. The boss man was always Boss Hogg, mainly because he never did any work and just sat in his air conditioned office to avoid getting dirty. Plus, he was a good 'ol boy. Next was the second in command, people called him Hoss since he looked like the guy from Bonanza but he worked just as hard with the crew. There was one welder nicknamed Sparky due to him nearly electrocuting himself when an electrician rewired an amp for the plasma welder. Then there was the old man of the crew that everyone called Fish. Whenever he took his dentures out he looked like a fish gulping for water. Me, I had the misfortune of being called Scorch. I had just gotten a military high and tight haircut for the first day of work because I didn't want to be sweating and having my hair stick to me. Not even an hour in the sun and my scalp and the top of my ears are burnt. And aloe vera wasn't helping. There were others that had nicknames worse than mine, but they didn't last too long.
Nicknames are a must for any job. Take mine for example its Eeyore because of my southern drawn and I am slow but stubborn.
Lol. I said about one useless partner I had: he’s voice activated. My partner now and I have a helper we call “Brick”, because he is always in the way and you just trip over him, no other uses. My partner’s name is a term for leaving early or grabbing a day off in the week: “Taking a Belden”. Nicknames and word slang are just universal parts of any tool using profession.
These are all great!
My favorite has to be Microwave
😂 I was laughing soooo hard that I was crying. 1. By me hitting the 'Like' button only one does absolutely no justice for what you do. 2. Why do you not have a contract with Comedy Central??
I rank you right up there with my #1 favorite comedian all times even to this day is Eddie Murphy. 🤣 😂 🤣
We had this happen when I worked In a large shop. I was shrimp another was pud but the one who called hr was squidward.
We had a guy we called Einstein. It was awesome because it was literal and sarcastic at the same time. He looked just like Einstein but was very dim.😂
Knew a guy when working fast food that I nicknamed "Killionaire" as both a Halo reference, and a reference to how quickly he could prep food during dinner rush.
I should have subscribed month’s ago. You sir, are a genius.
Hope you hit a million subscribers! Keep up the good work!
I had this one kid I worked with for a very short period of time and I secretly called him Clocksucker. Because he was only there for a paycheck but never did anything. Hence the reason we only worked together for a very short period of time
This 13 year old who weighed about 250lbs started hanging around our computer store in the early 2000s. Darrell's nickname was LFD. It stood for Little Fat Darrell.
One of the best youtubers. Love yall
My crew got:
Beaver - Builds the weirdest contractions that somehow work.
Rhino - Strong mf, but he sleeps on the job.
Broom (Me) - Works when you really push him, otherwise he just leans somewhere.
Rabbit - Fast worker but he leaves shit everywhere.
as a matt, i approve 2 stroke LOL
Damn right, if they're talking about other people, they're talking about you too !
My boss always jokes with me about being a blister, and yes, it is a joke he says it to everyone. We have a guy called Casper, disappeares whenever there is work to be done. Captain Clipboard is another one.
🤣 Captain Clipboard oh that one i use for my safety man tho we also call him preacher he preach safety but never practice it.
@VTX00128 our captain clipboard is one of our PMOs, basically the senior hourly guy on shift. I work in a paper mill, and he got the name because he is more worried about doing his checklists than pretty much anything else.
I had another guy I called "Top Fuel", short for "Top Fuel Ronster". "The Ronster", or "The Monster Ronster" was a little old guy that walked real slow, always had a mistake that needed to fixing right at quitting time, and was ALWAYS the last one on the work van. His real name was Ron.
I know a guy called "The Statue." He moves so slow, pigeons roost on him and shit all over him.
I wish I could like this a few times. One of yalls best ones. Thanks
You put so much thought into this. It’s incredible.
Hired in and my trainer’s nickname was “Corn” years later asked about it , they told me because of the painting “American Gothic” the old guy with the pitchfork-he was a dead ringer.
While doing investigations I was given the nickname Armageddon because I took on the difficult investigations that spider webbed into several issues. After an especially ugly investigation they decided that name wasn’t enough and added Darth to it, so from that point on I was referred to as Darth Armageddon.
TnT because Tuesdays and Thursdays were when he was sober enough to come in
😁🤣😁🤣 We always had nicknames for co workers and customers alike. 🙄
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Salty Cracker fan?
@@Thisshitcrazybruh I was thinking the same thing.😎🇺🇸
I had a summer factory job with a pretty high turnover, where everyone's name defaulted to Sam.
If someone called you Sam, accept it. If you don't know someone's name, call them Sam. Nobody's allowed to get butthurt.
Is this a wil-e-coyote reference?
@@kBIT01 You mean Ralph Wolf and Sam Sheepdog clocking in? Might have been. We did say "Mornin' Sam" quite often.
Finger, cause he ain't gonna make a hand....I'm dying
I absolutely hear nothing wrong with any of these nicknames.. . they're actually pretty normal
I had a bad habit of smacking my tools against my car. I never trally took care of it... Got called Dent.
"Aint never gunna be no hand"......solid burn!
I was lightning, because if I had a hammer I couldn't strike the same place twice. Learned how to use a hammer, but the name stuck lol.
Love all the nicknames and makes so much sense
The best outcome. Give Ricky a label maker. I have one and print out nicknames for everyone on my jobsite. They are worn with pride!
Mine was Evergreen.
I told my supervisor that i (19 years old) had 19 years experience in Breathing.
She told me i needed to get a pet plant to replace all the oxygen i had wasted. And I'm kinda tall.
If i ever said or did anything stupid, the guys would tell me "Evergreen...go get a $%#&ing plant".
Those nicknames are on point.
Foreskin disappears when work get hard 😂😂😂
Square wheel- works like a square wheel, not very well 😂😂😂
I find these accurate 😅
They got one that the employees use that the owners generally don't know about.. "daddy's money" and you know when it applies and when it doesn't.. trust me.. there is something to be said for a man that will tell you to do something then come help you over a man that will just say "i pay you to do it" because that ain't the whole point.. you can actually get your guys workin harder if you in there too.. my 2 pennies about leadership over being a boss sry..
lmao Why am I so in love with Ricky?
I worked with a guy we called big for nothing. He was a bodybuilder, his words, but my God did he bitch about picking up even 4 30ft 5 bar and carrying them. And I mean after 2 trips he was saying it was too heavy, so we started calling him that because he was a big guy and I don't mean fat, it was mostly muscle.
Another was 2 ton, fat kid that one day jumped up into the back of a truck and the boss yells over "hey that is only a 2 ton truck"
I was lovingly referred to as ohh crap 💩 The punchlist guy !
"stymie" -that one guy that always slows you down
Ahh the "Glove" Don't always need em, but gunna some jobs hurt without one..
Two stroke that's a good one I'm like ricky I can come up with some good names for peaple instantly lol
Got a guy we call KitKat. He's always taking a break
Lmao love these videos man
Absolute comic gold amazing 👏
Absolutely perfect lol
Worked with a guy nicknamed "Blister". Only showed up after the work was done lol.
Damn this sounds all too familiar
Love your video
I am so using some of these at work
I work with my dad from time to time, he calls me sandman because I'm quite proficient with a pneumatic sander, I call him silverback because he's big, has graying hair and likes to act all tough and assert his dominance
🤣🤣🤣 on point! A hand with the glove!!
Had a welder on the job, they called him “iron lung”. They said he was so lazy, he slept in an iron lung from being too lazy to breathe.
There's nothing like construction site jargon and there's nothing like earning your nickname. You may not like it in the beginning but you'll definitely learn to laugh about it.
Thanks!
Went on a job site asking for a couple of cars to be moved so we (gas company) can put in a service.
The lead guy (carpenter?) told me that they had two newbies: Paul and Nick.
Henceforth, they were known as "Paul-Sack" and "Nick-Head". 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Mine was either tractor or steam shovel. I was told steam shovel to my face.
Great at digging holes and doing simple jobs, but I did not have a high gear. I got working and could work the whole day, But the pace I was at was the pace I was at
I've worked with several we called 71%ers. 70% to pass your trade qualifications. The other one was pipeline. Anything you say or do around them gets a direct pipeline straight to the boss.
And a couple of helpers/labourers have been called Mensa.