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
@@jimcarrigan1777 Roofers? You mean Peak Tweakers? You obviously never drew a rainout circle..I mean, .Sweat Gland, Chalk Line and Toe Board can tell you all about it though. XP Sweat gland is always working overtime, because Chalk line fades pretty quickly in the sun So, Toe Board does all he can to keep them on that roof. XP
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.
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 @$$ with a solid pair of steel toes?
@Cat_chan420 The wood bleach thing was entirely unintentional. He was trying to load a pallet of extra materials into his truck to take home. The wood bleach fell off the pallet, and he ran it over. The whole thing was caught on camera. When he came in the next day, he was surprised he was in trouble for anything. Until the boss showed him the damage to his car. Then he kinda understood, but still thought he shouldn't be kicked off the forklift for it. It was his arguing that got him fired in the end.
@@krisgibbon2199 Can honestly say that arguing with a boss without something to back up the statements has been the death of many careers. And claiming you shouldn't be punished in some way when you've done wrong and had it proven... just irritating. Definitely dumb@$$ 😂
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.
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.
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
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!
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.
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
"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.
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.
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.
Yup Every time I hear......"I am so tired of the 40 hour week, It's just so exhausting".. My reply is always the same..-"What, only 40 hours and you are done. Wow, So, what do you do with the rest of the week after Tuesday night?". Aa you can imagine, I get a lot of balks and vitriol from the weaklings.
Saw this on FB. Had to come over here to get the link so I can share it. Made me actually laugh out loud. two favorite ones: two stroke and nail clipper
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 😂
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.
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.
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.
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
Years ago we had a guy that would have some sort of illness for practically the whole summer, and be out of the shop. We would always ask him for Dr. Summeroff's phone number.
My nickname in the Auto Shop during the class was always JPEG since I wore the standard blue Dickies 874's and a grey utility shirt, as well as the stock GM technician cap.
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.
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.
Scrappy, he looked like a crazy person but was the nicest guy. Also the man could McGyver any scrap you could find on the job site into almost anything you needed. He was an electrician, so when he custom built something you expected from a fabricator by welding and grinding he would just laugh and say you needed to spend some time on the shipyard.
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…
Now that's funny🤣🤣🤣
That's hilarious
Wow sounds like a corporate engineer lol deal with that shit daily 🤣
I used clown shoe big ugly and always tripping over him
Favorite
Biscuit. Because he soaks up all the gravy work.
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
Good one and a classic.
Definitely for the roofers out there
😂😂😂
@@jimcarrigan1777 Roofers? You mean Peak Tweakers? You obviously never drew a rainout circle..I mean, .Sweat Gland, Chalk Line and Toe Board can tell you all about it though. XP Sweat gland is always working overtime, because Chalk line fades pretty quickly in the sun So, Toe Board does all he can to keep them on that roof. XP
Wheelbarrow: He'll work, but you gotta push him.
That's a good one
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Broken arrow…useless and can’t be fired that’s priceless
Fun Fact: Broken Arrow is the term the US military uses when a nuke goes missing from the stockpile.
@@matthewreckamp4005That's the unfortunate part, they get a cool sounding nickname for their ineptitude.
Reminds me of the owners of my company.
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One more vote to hear the rest.
Called a coworker, Casper. Always getting paid, but only working in spirit.
Hell, I call the government that when I see all the taxes taken out 😂
had a bloke at work we called slinky good for fuck all but brings a smile to your face if you push him down the stairs 😀
😳🤣😂
That ain't funny 😂😂😂😂
Ima need to hear all 37 pages 😂😂
💯agreed on that one 😂😂😂😂😂😂
same
I totally disagree with Ricky's Nickname 😂😂😂
6:18 central. Watermelon seed, tiny amount of pressure, gone in a second.
Absofuckinglutely
We had a guy we called crockpot. It took him all day to get anything done.
Lightning: always takes the path of least resistance.
i have better. 'lightning, never strikes the same place twice' trust me i dont want to be around me when i have to use a hammer
Ours is “he’s as fast as lightning”. The guy is incredibly slow behind the wheel of anything he touches.
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Used to cut trees with an extremely short guy, we called him Small Bunyun, and it still makes me laugh to this day
Baaaahahahaha 😅 that's great!!!
Submarine - nobody even realizes you are there until you surface at the end of the shift.
This is fuckin genius 😂
Sounds like one of my current ASMs
Yo I work in a sub yard I'm using that
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.
@@TheBob102183You need to put that in the main comments. Good one.👍
Sounds like my manager.
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We had a guy like that. We called him Dory.
Had a foremen the guys called "the Professor " Super smart at one thing and one thing only.
I'm the opposite of that. I am almost, but not quite smart with many many things, but not truly smart with anything.
@@grants7390
Jack of all trades, Master of none.
Was he Alain Prost?
When you get those people who show up, do zero work, and are only there to collect a check...I call them Clocksuckers
Sounds like all the supervisors I've ever met
😂
Good one! ;D
My man!
More accurately:
Worthless Clocksuckers. Driving up the cost of doing business since day 1.
I work with a bunch of Clocksuckers!!
We have a “tumbleweed”. See him always walking by on the job site, but never doing anything until he runs into “the fence”, the foreman. Haha
What a good laugh on a Friday, and a shit ton of new nicknames for people in my Plant. Thank you!
Everyone of those were pure gold please we need more.
Ninja turtle, slow like a turtle but hides like a ninja.
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Puff the magic dragon. Sounds like he works hard, but he gases out after a few seconds
i always loved crescent wrench, slips off right when things get hard
mine was Blob Ross. I was a painter and I weight about 375.
I hope for you that you did some to change that.
Bahahaha that's awesome 😂
I once got called "Ghost".
I went in and got my work done, but apparently no one saw me for a few weeks.
ngl that nicknam is very cool
Exact same nickname I got.
Cause people apparently never see me get work done, but it "magically" gets done 😂.
Thats working nights for a few weeks
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 @$$ with a solid pair of steel toes?
@Cat_chan420 The wood bleach thing was entirely unintentional. He was trying to load a pallet of extra materials into his truck to take home. The wood bleach fell off the pallet, and he ran it over. The whole thing was caught on camera. When he came in the next day, he was surprised he was in trouble for anything. Until the boss showed him the damage to his car. Then he kinda understood, but still thought he shouldn't be kicked off the forklift for it. It was his arguing that got him fired in the end.
@@krisgibbon2199 Can honestly say that arguing with a boss without something to back up the statements has been the death of many careers. And claiming you shouldn't be punished in some way when you've done wrong and had it proven... just irritating. Definitely dumb@$$ 😂
“ET”-always wants to go home, and “Daisy”-some day’s-he’s in, some days-he aint… 😂
lol we have a Daisy where I work.. for this very same reason.
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.
Butter knife, useful tool but not too sharp
Called one guy OPIUM, because he's a slow working dope.
And another guy BOOTS, because that's all you see hanging out of the bosses ass
I think every job would have people that fit these nicknames
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.
Should have called him tackle box!
I read this, but heard Ricky tell me it. Rosco do it better. 😂
Hard a guy like that called him hardware
There was a welder at my last job like that. We also called him Whistledick because we're 95% sure he had a dick piercing too.
We called a guy like that pincushion
Kiebler. The guy you never see working but somehow has his work handled.
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
Tollhouse. Dude was permanently baked
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!
Beetlejuice: he works, but you have to call for him multiple times before you get his attention because he is off in his own world.
Hey, thats my nickname!
Hahaha!!
Call a guy the white shadow only guy we know that shows up to work and leaves cleaner than when he showed up
Rod - Retired on duty
In the Army, we called it the road program. Retired on active duty.
The military version is ROAD! Retired on active duty.
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.
Had a guy named "Smoothie" he let it slip that his proctologist said he had smooth walls. Yeah buddy got to watch what you say on a job site.
Whenever I have used or heard the term smoothie, it was either in relation to being a smooth brain, or you're like a Barbie
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
Magic, because every time he was around your stuff would disappear
"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.
Southern border? Mexicans have always been some of the hardest workers Ive been around.
@@pb222221 Those immigrated legally are some of the hardest workers I know. Now their kids are most certainly "Sprinkles".
Duhversaty is our stringht
We called that guy you described Token.
Hovercraft, made a shit ton of noise as he floated by without actually touching anything
We call ol boy at work PJ. Every time you turn around he’s in the porta John.
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.
Worked with an old man named Otis who was like that. He’s worked at 50 different jobs and worked “5 years” for every single one.
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.
Yup Every time I hear......"I am so tired of the 40 hour week, It's just so exhausting".. My reply is always the same..-"What, only 40 hours and you are done. Wow, So, what do you do with the rest of the week after Tuesday night?". Aa you can imagine, I get a lot of balks and vitriol from the weaklings.
Had a dude we called snowman ⛄️ because every time you looked for him he was standing in the same damn spot!!!
We got a guy on our crew with a bum foot, he's I-hop.
😅😅
I like that
Saw this on FB. Had to come over here to get the link so I can share it. Made me actually laugh out loud. two favorite ones: two stroke and nail clipper
Seagull. Makes a lot of noise.
Craps on everything.
Leaves after everybody else
has been made angry by him.
Best video ever 😂😂😂 so many workers just like you described in every work place 🤣🤣🤣
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 😂
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.
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 we called "wedge." The simplest tool known to man.
😂😂😂 gold
Big Country: weighs at least 300 lbs and plays country music on the job.
Priceless
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. 😂
What about us big Gen Xers that blast 80s thrash metal all day? 🤔🤘
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.
We had a Big Country on our job too . Good ole boy hellava hand
Local 110 SMW
We have a guy we call the Artist.. he just sits around and draws a check
one of the technicians we called him shot gun, threw every. single. part. at a vehicle to get it to work. spray and pray was his second name.
When in doubt: replace everything. Works %60 of the time, every time.
My supervisor thinks he's a toilet working with a bunch of bidets; he thinks he's the only one who can do shit!
We used to call our boss MAKE-A-WISH because we knew he wasn't going to be around long and always got treated special
Work with a guy called Home Depot cuz all he does is hold the digging tools, or any tools, like the shelves of Home Depot
Dumb
We call'em life coaches. Because they're only there for moral support!
Snipers nightmare. A bloke that dodges work with skill
We had a guy at work called "Keth"
Took me 4 months to learn his real name was Keith but he had one eye missing
Omg the worse joke ever but a gut buster lol
Lol I'm fucking dieing
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
🤪🤣😂 just...damn
Magpie, guy whos really smart, but is easily distracted and steals things
PANTY-What I used to call the inspector, because he was always in the way.
We use to have two fellas called
Bear ( bare minimum )and turbine ( slow to start and whine the whole time)
Ooohhhhhh damn a broken arrow🤣😂
Damnit Ricky, what happened to clipboard clown? 😂🤣
Please make this a series!
We have a guy at work who is referred to as "free range". All he does is wander around all day.
We have a sasquatch, you smell him before you see him.
we had one of those!
OMGFG that's hilarious. 😅😅 I litterty choked on my beer watching this..
Years ago we had a guy that would have some sort of illness for practically the whole summer, and be out of the shop. We would always ask him for Dr. Summeroff's phone number.
Dr.summeroff is very popular at my shipyard but sadly he's always booked solid
I got a friend who's got a guy in his shop that has one arm that is considerably shorter than the other. They call him "Clock"
Had dude last name Rice. He got hit by a 277v and now his name is Fried Rice
Can't breathe. I am dying.
The writing on this episode is supreme comedy !!! It's golf season, time to memorize the one liners ! Thanks for the material !
Chimney-spends all day at the smoke pit, puffing out smoke
Worked with a pipe fitter we called "Puddles" cause he only installed leaks.
Damn thats a good 1
Foreskin. Im fkkn dead 💀💀🤣🤣
My nickname in the Auto Shop during the class was always JPEG since I wore the standard blue Dickies 874's and a grey utility shirt, as well as the stock GM technician cap.
Whoever came up with that nickname was on point.
OMG. We got a guy called fingers. First day here he cut his fingers. But hes a good kid.
This needs a series like "Ricky IS the Boss". ... Speaking of which... Part 3?
Agreed. And then part 4 too😊
Maybe that could Segway into a whole new series. The next one could be Roscoe is the boss, then tool room Tommy, new guy, Pablo, and so on
My nickname is demo. Given to me by all the truckers at the company after I put a hole in the trailer lmfao
We need more of these nicknames they are so hilarious
According to a coworker, i'm Backdraft. Because i'm always putting out fires and i seem to start a few of my own.
Absolutely hilarious. Funniest one to date. Keep on brother.😂
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.
Had a guy working with us we called him lightning. He never hit the same place twice!
"low range" - he was the slowest guy on the job site.
AKA Granny gear.
We had a metal break kid we called 50/50. 50% chance it’s right or wrong. Kid is getting a little better so we call him 80/20 now
That is awesome. In a few years people will be calling him hunnerd. When that happens, he will have made it.
Sadly, His diligent efforts will only result in him being called ''Hunnie''.. XP
Cool Arrow. Very popular in South Texas. My nickname was Wedo.
I have used a couple of these throughout the course of time.. classic!! Keep up the great nicknames
NO NO NO Ain't one single military person gonna call ANYBODY 'Broken Arrow'. If you know, you know...
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.
So yall tellin me it ain’t got nothin to do with John Travolta? 😂
Well the tradesman definition sure fits most of the military bases I've been to (especially the civilian contractors)😅
@SharpForceTrauma correct, the term broken arrow actually originated in Korea, but it best known in Vietnam.
We used to call a guy Tylenol, because he sure wasn't a regular aspirin!!!
A friend of mine worked with a guy that everyone called Lightning, which was ironic because he was the slowest worker there.
Phantom: There one minute and gone the next.
Completely funny totally worth watching loved it
T-Rex 🦖
All big mouth and small little arms waving around.
Clocksucker is a personal favorite
Carousel 🎠🎠🎠 goes round in circles all day but doesn't get you anywhere.
We call this same thing, sand fly…buzzin around all day bothering people
These are all pure gold.
Rabbit. Moment he stopped moving his ass hit the deck
Scrappy, he looked like a crazy person but was the nicest guy. Also the man could McGyver any scrap you could find on the job site into almost anything you needed. He was an electrician, so when he custom built something you expected from a fabricator by welding and grinding he would just laugh and say you needed to spend some time on the shipyard.
Guess I'll clean my keyboard...again. Ya done made me spit my drink out... again. xD
You must be the CIA in the 1980s inner city, because you just cracked me up. 😂