Visited a plant to do some service work, and the workers there explained their boss’s nickname was Seagull. He just swoops in, shits all over everything, and flies away…
I know a guy he’s a welderthat was called gravy, because he got all the easy work, and his fitter would be called biscuit because he soaked up all the gravy work
Gave one of my coworkers a Goldfish sticker for his hardhat. His nickname is Goldfish because he doesn't retain instructions for much longer than 10 seconds.
Rerun was my preferred nickname for those types. Because every day it was the same shit as yesterday, but you still had to go through the explanation of how to do it.
SAM: Self Appointed Manager Golden Retriever: Your best friend until you piss them off, tell you not very nicely how pissed they are, and then they go back to being your best friend
I worked with a guy we called dumbass. One time, we found a bottle of bubbles at the facility, and we were passing em around. When we gave it to dumbass he still had his face shield on. Not once, not twice, but three times did he try to blow bubbles through the shield. He might have tried a fourth time if we didn't burst out laughing at him at the third attempt. He later got fired for running over a can of wood bleach with a forklift, spraying it all over the bosses brand new pickup. He didn't even tell anyone when it happened. He just left while the stuff destroyed the paint.
Ngl, I find that simultaneously horrific and hilarious. I'd assume that he was doing it on purpose (destruction of bosses property) except for that bubble incident you mentioned. Also, did the boss attempt to kick him off the site with physical force? Like a swift kick in the @$$ with a solid pair of steel toes?
@Cat_chan420 The wood bleach thing was entirely unintentional. He was trying to load a pallet of extra materials into his truck to take home. The wood bleach fell off the pallet, and he ran it over. The whole thing was caught on camera. When he came in the next day, he was surprised he was in trouble for anything. Until the boss showed him the damage to his car. Then he kinda understood, but still thought he shouldn't be kicked off the forklift for it. It was his arguing that got him fired in the end.
@@krisgibbon2199 Can honestly say that arguing with a boss without something to back up the statements has been the death of many careers. And claiming you shouldn't be punished in some way when you've done wrong and had it proven... just irritating. Definitely dumb@$$ 😂
"Sprinkles": Whatever the color, they're just there to make the place look good for HR and Public Relations, even if they add no real flavor or value. And this isn't a crack aimed solely at the southern border; there was one I had to work with that was French.
Jim. Moving a truck load of refrigerators. Jim stood in the doorway and was asked to move out of the way, every fridge through the door. It became " don't Jim the door." Get the hell outta the way. Don't Jim the door!
I worked with a guy we called Rings and Things, because he had so many gauges, piercings, and studs in his face and head, if he walked under the scrap magnet, he’d be on the boat to China by now.
I need to remember Daisy. I got a chick at work this describes perfectly. She got on my case talking to one of my guys today, and I told her I don't need some new chick getting after me who's worked there for three days and called out for four.
Well I'm 285. And play country 70s 80s 90s creed fisher, Cody jinks, Whitley Morgan and the 78s, honky tonk hustlars, Hank 3, and the like not this bro pop country on radio today and bluegrass cleverys, grandpas cough medicine, pine box boys, iron horse, hayseed dixie. Guess I'm almost big hillbilly. 😂
Some years ago, I was working on a job where we had a big old corn fed country boy who could probably lift 400 pounds. We called him country. One day, I caught the guys f***** off. I laid the law down and let them know. That I was gonna send someone home permanently. He was only standing a few feet away from me, and he said. "I'll be working cause, I need my job to feed my family". I always had respect for him after that.
When I first started working at 18, I was tricked into buying donuts for everyone in the shop. They started calling me “Donut”. 16 years later, they still call me Donut.
We had a guy who kept putting the wrong fuel in things. Gas in disel stuff, disel in gas stuff. He didn't last long, but the guys called him Scientifico because he was always mixing chemicals 😂
We named a guy dallas, where ever he went there was oil!. On a boat project he managed to completely miss a compartment when plumbing thru hyd' lines, when testing he put 400ltrs into the bilge of that compartment. 2 days later he was pumping diesel from 1 tank to another, he didn realise his hose had come out the filler, covered the deck and splilled into the water, he was super popular for that.
We got a machine operator with one eye. His name is Tim. Still pronounced Tim without the i. Damn good operator with an eye though. Better than the other guys.
Oh great before too long someone is gonna be singing the "shes the one eye one eye one eye shes the one eye one eye love i think thats a haywood banks song
This is in the trucking industry. Steering wheel holder used to be an insult. Now they are the new truck drivers. Its gotten that bad. So now some guy who shouldn't be in the drivers seat. We call 1) seat warmer: they are a warm body in the seat and never touch the Steering wheel, which brings me to the second. 2) over priced glorified cell phone holder: they draw a paycheck for holding a cell phone.
I used to work with a water jetting company and we were on an oil rig and I was jetting under the crane tracks. We wore yellow slicker jackets and pants. I stood up and water was just pouring out of the pockets and just about everywhere else, the boss looks at me and yelled "Spongebob!" Still calls me that.
that's me right there. guys wonder how come i don't look like i work hard, but i always get my shit done. there's a secret to it, and i ain't never showed it to anyone
We had one guy that we called Storytime. That guy had a story for everything. If he had actually done half the stuff he claimed he had, he would have been 150 years old. He was like 25.
for those who don't know: a "broken arrow" refers to either a loss of, severe damage to, or "rapid unplanned disassembly" of a nuclear weapon that doesnt result in a nuclear war. uncle sam only claims that there have only been 32 broken arrow incidents, but i wouldnt be surprised to find out that the actual number is a lot higher.
@@theangryotaku3361 That is one use, more commonly used in the field to describe a situation where their position is completely overrun, usually to call airstrikes and artillery directly on that position danger close.
Had a helper on a horizontal drilling crew. We called him "Chicken Little" the guy NEVER took his hard hat off. Even on breaks or lunch. If he was on the clock, the hard hat was on. But he was a decent worker at the end of the day. And I'm pretty sure that "part time" is a universal nick name to those that work anything less than a 12hr day when it comes to the trades and construction.
Had a guy called toggle. He was supposed to keep toggle on bolt from spinning and placed both index fingers behind said toggle and got both fingers bolted to the wall with an impact.
My boss called me Nubbs McGillicuddy(inspired by FunkFPV because he watches him a lot), because I would never wear gloves, but once one of my coworkers got a glove caught in a drill and lost a finger, he retired that name
