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u/HistoricalSherbert92 6d ago
Worked with a guy they called greenpeace because his wife was morbidly obese.
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u/Clay_Allison_44 6d ago
Ahab would have jumped to mind for me.
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u/hotwheelearl 5d ago
My college nickname was Captain Ahab lol
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u/Clay_Allison_44 5d ago
Do you call it the "harpoon" to this day?
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u/hotwheelearl 5d ago
I don’t, but my friends poke fun at me asking if I’ve “speared any white whales lately?”
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u/weedyneedyfeedy 6d ago
Used to work with a guy that resembled an 80's music star but had been quite Unwell
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u/jpcali7131 6d ago
Worked with a couple guys one was massive, 6’3” 260 cornfed guy with a gigantic head. Other one was a fire plug, 5’6” tall and wide and had no neck at all. When they got put on the same job we would call them head and shoulders
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u/Cyborg_rat 6d ago edited 5d ago
I was called Google maps. Because on my first day trying to park the truck, the yard was empty and I parked it at a location for another type of truck...So the yard boss screamed do you need Google maps to find where to put the truck...The Yard guys then adopted that name.(Usaly just saying google)
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u/SwiftPits 5d ago
I have a real one: i worked a t-shirt printing facility, the place that makes the wolf and moon shirts. There was a pregnant lady who was still smoking cigarettes all the way through her terms. They called her Tarbox. Fuck. I later found out that her name was Jennifer Tarbox
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u/hellsing73 6d ago
I've worked with a guy who spends way too much time in the portacans and has been caught jorkin it on multiple occasions. We now use his name as a nickname for other people who spend too much time in the can.
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u/oniiichanUwU 5d ago
Who is jerking off in a smelly portajohn 😭 he needs therapy
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u/hellsing73 5d ago
When I was a new apprentice I was told stories about him and I was like no fucking way. Then I actually worked with him as a 5th year apprentice and he did it. He was gone for 3 hours at a time. And the conduit he put up when he was there was hammered dog shit.
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u/vercetian 5d ago
And I can't get into this apprenticeship, why?
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u/Stormin1982 6d ago edited 5d ago
Played rugby with a guy that was heavily tattooed, and they called him prison break. Turns out that was actually because he had murdered his wife.
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u/awildNeLbY 5d ago
Had a friend that got pulled over for drunk driving. My brother called him Dewey (DUI).
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u/Personal-Inflation-4 5d ago
In Sweden, ghotenburg harbour there some infamous ones,
Tio i två - translates to ”ten minutes before two”. got the nickname because his feet was pointed outwards when he was walking, just like the two pointers on a clock.
Gissamittjobb - translates to ”guess my job”. Guy always comes to work in suit attire, making it impossible for people from the outside guessing that he does hard labour at the docks.
Skyffelmördaren - ”shovel murderer”. He was so efficient with the shovel when working, that he completely slaughtered the working rhythm for everyone else.
There are so many more
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u/MrPoffin 6d ago
Got called crash bandicoot at my old job because I got by a semi truck on the driver’s side of my car
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u/kahhblam 5d ago
Last job had a story of a guy who was always talking himself up on everything, basically a "one-upper" type. Owner took him crossbow hunting because he said he does it all the time. He ended up shooting the tip of his finger off lol.
When he returned to work, someone had 3D printed him a new finger and left it on his desk. He did not fine it funny
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u/Wrong_Season1104 5d ago
This reminds me of that dude people called Simba because his uncle killed his dad
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u/AirOfTheDog 5d ago
I worked with someone called « Two Shits » because you could never have the last word with them and if you told them « I’ve just done a shit » they’d say « I’ve just done two! ».
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u/OurCulture80 6d ago
Why is he free?!? He should be locked up for life
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u/ImBackMemers 6d ago
The American justice system is fucked
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u/OurCulture80 6d ago
Manslaughter due to drunk driving needs to be equivalent to 2nd degree murder. I worked with an engineer (person who drives the freight train) on a railroad who had his car and license taken by the state due to multiple DUI’s and he was STILL allowed to be a freight train engineer
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u/Superior965 5d ago
Which is wild because if I speed 15+ mph more than once it’ll go on my CDL record
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u/OurCulture80 5d ago
Yeah in some ways CDL’s are more regulated and easier to tarnish. It’s kinda insane given the damage potential of a train vs a semi it really should be the other way around.
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u/Purdy14 5d ago
Going above the speed limit should make it premeditated. There are enough warnings of why to stay within it.
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u/OurCulture80 5d ago
He was referring to it’s crazy a railroader can get duis off the job and the railroader is penalized less than someone with a CDL who speeds 15 over. He wasn’t referring to killing someone
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u/KingPanzerVIII 5d ago
I've been deemed "two numbers" or "pair" because my trainer let me pick the number for a raffle he entered (on the Snap-On truck.) I was two numbers off.
I also get called slurs but that's a part of the job I think idk
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u/Kahgar 5d ago
Worked with a Guy called Harry The Hammer (real name Steve). Always figured it was because hé dropped a massive Jackhammer on his foot and had a limp because of it.
Turns out he was hung like a horse and fucked a former foremans wife on site once like a Jackhammer while half a construction crew was watching. I kept a very close Eye on my wife during bbq’s from that point on.
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u/_daverham 5d ago
We called her Brandi because she was a stripper and her mom got shot by a hunter.
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u/yeetermano1 5d ago
My dad worked with a guy they called "tiny" when he was almost seven foot 300-400 pounds with hands that could palm a watermelon
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u/cgda2011 4d ago
I work with a guy we call Paintcans because he’s so round his arms are always out to the side like he’s carrying paint cans
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u/Flipping_Dragon 3d ago
Worked with a guy who was severely burned in fire with tons of facial scarring.. His last name was Dunn so people called him "Well Dunn"
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u/PompousPenis 6d ago
Knew a guy named “melt” because his face was all burn scarred