I always seem to pick up nicknames at work. When I worked at the local subsidiary of a monolith clothing and accessories empire, I was known by the rest of the staff as "L'il E," as in "Little Evil." There was another girl that worked in my department that they called "Big E"--not that she was huge, but merely bigger than me. Scheduling the two of us at the time time was like a shot in the foot.
My most recent nickname, knowledge of which has spread to certain other locations in our corporation, is "Everfabulous." This is merely because I catch Bossman's mistakes before he makes an ass of himself, and me by association.
Have you ever picked up a nickname at work that you couldn't shake off?
Posted by Tiffany at April 14, 2005 06:36 PMUm, yea. "The Feeninator." My last name starts with F-e-e-n and I was a Tech. Sgt. in the military at the time.
Posted by: Nanc' at April 14, 2005 09:19 PMLil Mama. That's the one I can't seem to shake. It follows me where I go. I am petite and I do run shit. I guess that's why everyone labels me the same. It's not intentional though. Blame it on the Aries in me. I'm a natural born leader... so "they" say.
Posted by: MsThing at April 14, 2005 09:48 PMLet's see I had two or three that had nothing to do with my hair (I have aurburn/red hair) because most of my nicknames have something to do with that - Fireball, Red, Roja, Puta Loca - oh, I guess that's about something else...
Anyway, Webster, because they said I was a walking dictionary (in a good way) and because I kept telling this young girl that was always asking me how to spell things to look it up, there was a Webster's right on her desk. I know, being a good speller and knowing vocabulary are inate, but you CAN learn...The owner of the company kept trying to stump me with stuff. Oh yeah, I was also called Symbol Savant because I knew the stock symbol for just about any stock trading on all the exchanges, even stocks we didn't trade. It was really weird. I even scared myself sometimes.
Also, Julia Sugarbaker (from Designing Women). At first I was insulted, but after it was explained to me I was flattered. They thought that I was a proper Southern woman, with a great brain and the balls to tell anyone off in the sweetest (but most cutting) way possible. Yeah, that's pretty much me.
Actually for a while I was called The Incubator, because I worked full-time until 20 weeks and 1/2 time until 27 weeks while pregnant with my triplets. By week 27 they just called me "Scary" and NEVER late for lunch. Bad things happened when I didn't get to eat on time... Ya know, I must have looked like Fat Bastard from the Austin Powers movies. I was freakin' HUGE.
Posted by: Momotrips at April 15, 2005 12:26 AM