Worst Nicknames EverEveryone wants a cool nickname like "Ace", "Boss", or "Iron". Kids being kids, that's not what we get - the kid with polio gets called Johnny Spazm, your Ginger Fuhrer was called Rob Man-you-smell and your question master was "Tommy" Trinder despite him being dead for years.
Tell us the worst you've heard and the stories behind them.
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chthonic, Thu 18 May 2006, 15:45)
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Shit job, high turnoverWe needed strong stupid people to do really hard work in a hot, stinking, dangerous environment, with no job security, lousy pay and miniscule benefits.
We used the services of an employment agency who skimmed 30% off the top of what were already pretty lousy wages. I found out later that several of the people we had hired had serious criminal records. I felt bad that the rapist had been on the night shift with a young, pretty, female engineer. She assured me he left her alone.
One of the more serious losers who lasted only a month was known by the others as Gipetto. A toy of the character from the Disney film Pinnochio (I'm not spell checking either name. You pedants can do it for me.) appeared in the control room, on top of the computer monitor.
It was only after he quit (which, like many others from the agency pool meant he simply stopped showing up for work and we cancelled his pass and stopped paying him and ordered a replacement) that I discovered that Gipetto was short for "Joe Paedophile".
(, Wed 24 May 2006, 17:38, Reply)
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