Jobsite nicknames and what they mean. Ricky and Roscoe are ruthless!

[wyojoe]

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.

[electroniccheeks]

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.

[Vikingwerk]

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!

[Snookchaser]

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.😊

[killajive]

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.

[krisgibbon]

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.

[lokian]

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.

[RiffRaffMama.]

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

[joshheitzenroder]

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.

[luvr]

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.

[Slenderlover]

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.

[Bigjake]

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

[danlevesque]

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

[JoeXTheXJuggalo]

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.

[Lenoh]

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

[lloydkeith]

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.

[cbmanshow]

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.

[johnscott]

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. 😂

[trenthollars]

Biscuit because they get all the gravy work.

[matdobson]

I like to call the slackers at work Bisquick because they're some biscuits soaking up all the gravy work