Nicknames

[scheherazade_79]

I have a new nickname at work... Basically someone's cellphone got stolen, and I figured out who the culprit was and apprehended him in ten seconds flat. So now I'm being called Hettie Wainthrop, after the TV detective. I'm finding it very amusing, because apart from the crime-busting connection, that character is my complete opposite. Saying that, I'm really enjoying being the new celebrity of my workplace Now everyone knows exactly who I am!

 

[scheherazade_79]

I almost forgot to ask. Have any of you guys acquired fleeting nicknames at work?

 

[ABSTRUSE]

My old boss called me Captain Obvious.

 

[BlackShanglan]

Well done on nailing the thief. It's awful working in a place where one can't trust one's co-workers. Can we recruit you for our place of business? If you can believe, we are actually plagued with a persistant lunch thief. People's food keeps going missing from the shared fridge - although so far no takers on my eggplant. There's some advantage to having unusual tastes.

I've never had a workplace nickname that I was aware of. When in high school, however, I did have two. One was the name of a character in a short story I'd written. The other was "Bishop," which I rather treasured. It was a reference to the movie "Aliens" and the fact that I could in fact do "the thing with the knife." I was rather good at it.

Ah, the madness of youth.

Shanglan

 

[scheherazade_79]

Abs - LOL! Why were you called Captain Obvious? Or is that a really obvious thing to ask?

Shanglan - If you rented me out to deal with your food thief, I can guarantee I'd have him or her nailed in a couple of days

 

[ABSTRUSE]

Abs - LOL! Why were you called Captain Obvious? Or is that a really obvious thing to ask?

Shanglan - If you rented me out to deal with your food thief, I can guarantee I'd have him or her nailed in a couple of days

LOL....because I would have a flair for the redundant.....it would be the kind of thing where a broken fixture would have visible flaw and I would say....It must have been the......and she would say, thank you Captain Obvious.

 

[mlady_france]

When I worked at my aunts sewing factory, they called me "princess". My now ex thought that it was an insult meaning I was the stuck up little thing that only got a job there because my aunt owned the shop and thought I should get special treatment. But it was actually because every morning when I walked in I would do the "princess" wave. It was actually a term of endearment and I was quiet found of it and the people who gave me the name.

 

[oggbashan]

'oggbashan' was a nickname from my school days. I have explained, at length, how I acquired it.

I have been known as "Ours" - the French for bear and also as 'Bear' in English. I think? that it was because I am cuddly. It may also be because I was, and am, clumsy being ambi-sinistrous. Ambi-dextrous people are equally good with both hands. Those of us who are ambi-sinistrous are equally incompetent with both hands.

Og

 

[R. Richard]

Well done on nailing the thief. It's awful working in a place where one can't trust one's co-workers. Can we recruit you for our place of business? If you can believe, we are actually plagued with a persistant lunch thief. People's food keeps going missing from the shared fridge - although so far no takers on my eggplant. There's some advantage to having unusual tastes.

We had a lunch thief at a place I worked some time back. They tried all sorts of clever plans to catch the thief, but nothing worked. I ended the problem with a simple note I stuck on the 'fridge"

"Take only your own food, violators will be poisoned."

 

[Kassiana]

It's not a nickname, but a person at my workplace used to constantly call me Rebecca instead of my real name.

 

[Colleen Thomas]

Does "that bitch in the office" count?

 

[AppleBiter]

I've been called Casper and Captain Butt. When I was single, people always used to call me by my last name. My SO, on the other hand, has always been known as Taz. Even his best friend didn't know his first name. He's moving away from it, now, and wanting to be called by his first name, but for the longest time, people only knew him as Taz.

 

[SeaCat]

Well done on nailing the thief. It's awful working in a place where one can't trust one's co-workers. Can we recruit you for our place of business? If you can believe, we are actually plagued with a persistant lunch thief. People's food keeps going missing from the shared fridge - although so far no takers on my eggplant. There's some advantage to having unusual tastes.

I've never had a workplace nickname that I was aware of. When in high school, however, I did have two. One was the name of a character in a short story I'd written. The other was "Bishop," which I rather treasured. It was a reference to the movie "Aliens" and the fact that I could in fact do "the thing with the knife." I was rather good at it.

Ah, the madness of youth.

Shanglan

Hey Shang,

We had a thief like that in the hospital. One day they made a tiny little mistake, they took my lunch. (An Andouille Sausage Sandwich with Pepper Jack Cheese.) The thief was rather easy to identify soon after that.

Cat

 

[SeaCat]

For a short while in the hospital where I now work I had the nick name of "Balls". (Until the boss heard it and put a stop to it.)

A) On my first day there we had a Fire Drill while I was in the basement. My comment on knowing I suddenly had to run up four flights of stairs? "Oh Balls!"

B) I was and still am the only male on the unit, so there fore I was the only one with a set.

Cat

 

[Goldie Munro]

At primary school I was nicknamed 'Beefy' - I had a passion for a particular flavour of crisp called BeeFee-Bar-BQ!! (or something like that!)

 

[EmeraldKitten]

My nickname at work is "The Queen".

Before I quit McD's to go do hair, I was discussing the Disney version of "Robin Hood", and someone said I could be the maid Mariam. (Spelling is wrong, I'm sure of it, lol.)
Anyway, I replied, "Absolutely not! I am the Queen!"

It stuck. So I guess I technically gave myself the nickname, lol.

For a year and a half, I heard, "My Queen", "You'd better not, the Queen will have your head!" and "Your highness, may I go out and smoke?". LOL.

Our temporary nametags were ones made with a label maker, so someone made my name tag to say, 'Queen Tabitha'. A customer asked me one day, what it took to become the Queen. I said, "Four years of hard labor and abuse."

Even after I quit, the employees would say, "The Queen is here!" And the new people only knew me by my nickname.

Now that I'm back at McD's, I've reclaimed my title as the Queen, and though I don't get any special treatment, it cracks me up.

 

[Liar]

Occationally I'm Captain. Nobody have any idea why.

 

[cloudy]

I was called Speedy Gonzalez for years. Part of being "Speedy" is starting a million projects, and only finishing a few.

ADHD is a truly horrible thing for others to put up with.

 

[BlackShanglan]

Does "that bitch in the office" count?

No, she fucking well doesn't. Every month she adds up the SO's paid time off and manages to short it at least a day. I don't personally think she can count her legs and come up with the same number twice.

Sorry, was there a thread topic around here somewhere?

Shanglan

 

[LadyJeanne]

In college, I had a work-study job in the Managing Editor's office of a cardiology journal and acquired the nick-name of Nancy Drew. It was a small office, very informal, and a fun place to work.

One of my jobs was to send out research manuscripts for review before publication (or rejection) in the journal. Most of the reviewers were good about returning their reviews promptly, but I did end up spending lots of time on the phone each day, tracking others down in the recesses of their labs, or leaving messages of varying urgency.

Every time one of those deliquent manuscripts would finally come back, the other student who logged them in would yell out, "Hey, Nancy Drew! You can stop hunting Dr. So-and-So!" Pretty soon everyone started calling me that, and I even started to use it when making my calls.

For some reason everyone got a kick out it, so when I was promoted, the Nancy Drew nick was passed on to the next student.

 

[cantdog]

They called me d'Artagnan. This was at Border's when I had decided to let the hair grow. As my hair lengthens, I ordinarily adjust the length of the 'burns and the imperial to go with it. So at the peak of my growth, my appearance was quite like Athos, although not, I'm afraid, d'Artagnan. D'Artagnan has no gray in his hair, and Athos does.

I wore vests, waistcoats, and ties to work a good deal of the time, then. I like ties.

 

[yui]

Good job, Sche!

I broke both my legs in a car accident my senior year of high school. I was in a wheelchair for a couple of weeks because navigating the halls without getting jostled was impossible for me. Once I started walking, with a cane, I favored my right leg, which was in a brace because the bones "clicked" even after they were pinned. My gait was off and as a result my friends started calling me Hop-a-long. Eventually, with healing and physical therapy I lost my hop.

I've been called, "China Girl," so much by coworkers (complete with "my little China Girl" warbling) that I've stopped explaining, I was "Legs" when I was running in college, and for some reason, my ex-husband called me "Bobbi." Go figure.

 

[ElizabethWest]

I almost forgot to ask. Have any of you guys acquired fleeting nicknames at work?

I had a doc who nicknamed me Nurse Death once. He always seemed to be on call when someone died. How I miss those days of floor nursing...

 

[cantdog]

Nurse Death.

When you think of nursing as lactation, it's a strange title...

 

[hotchkiss]

I got "Custard" at school after objecting to heing called "Gravy, Bisto Oxo etc" because of my surname.
At college I was christened "The laughing gnome!" after David Bowie's record of the same name because I was so short and always larking about. I wonder what happened to me!!!!

For years my friends called me George some of them still do, this really confused people when I answered to different names during conversations


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