Nicknames and windups

[fatoftheland]

Just looking through some of the user names on this forum made me think of the ribbing and mickey taking of our apprentices.

Our young lads are Leaky, Drip and Puddles!

The youngest we just call Twinkle. The looks we get on site are priceless.

I have just sent Puddles to Plumb Center for some fallopian tubes.

I got treated exactly the same when I was a young apprentice. I have been sent for Sky hooks, a left handed screwdriver, a long weight (25 minutes standing patiently in the local butchers) tartan paint... the list goes on

 

[stevetheplumber]

my first day as an apprentice the plumber sent me to get a bent bolt when i said dont wind me up he got the right hump and made me go
of course a bent bolt was a tool and as i found out over the next two years working with the miserable old bugger he didnt have a sense of humour

 

[unguided1]

I dont have an apprentice I have a love slave who is subjected to regular thrashing and sackings.

 

[obseen16]

a sparky mate of mine had massive ears and got called wingy and wingnut lol, i just get called chimp most of the time lol.

 

[GPS164]

I work with a lad called "Johnny Cuts Corners", when he was turning the water back on the other day us lads had little umbrellas ready...when we opened them up he threw a hissy fit and walked straight into a stud partition as he went outside to have a smoke to calm himself down.

My nickname is "T-Rex" because I have short arms...i find that one funny

 

[GPS164]

Whats this website you have in your signature then fatoftheland?

 

[GPS164]

Thanks mate, its not finished yet though...still waiting for the header to be finished. But I am happy with it in general.

Having read your reply I take it you get the same sales calls I do!

 

[buffy27]

don t anyone take offence please.
the underfloor heating van for a company i worked had two labourers.they called the driver ,down, and the lad with him. syndrome.
seriously

 

[HTB]

Just read this and it made me laugh,,,

"A father is a man who has photographs in his wallet where his money used to be."

 

[feltham]

i work at a university and theres about 30 workmen there and i would say there is a name for everyone if not 2
one bloke had the end of his finger cut off by a compresser so we called him fingers
we have a bloke who has big ears (wingnut)
some one who smells of BO (cheese and onion)
another who has more leaks than a veg shop (puddles)
i get called oxy for my spots lol

 

[Jimbob]

site jokes are absolutely classic.

A couple years i found a labourers number written down so i thought it would be funny to start texting him dirty messages pretending to be a dominatrix female... some of the messages were hilarious, me and a mate had a right laugh and he'd come round showing us the messages and i just managed to hold back laughing. Would send him messages telling him hes a 'sniffling little wimp' and once when he phoned i put my girlfriend on the phone and got her to act along.

So after a week of messages, he said to me his missus had seen the messages and kicked him out the house and wont let him back. It went on for weeks and i was getting on other sites just to stay away from him and my mate was making me feel so guilty...

anyway the joke turned out to be on me as my mate told the labourer it was me a few days after i started sending the messages... i was ****ed

i laugh just thinking about it

 

[terryrads]

my 1st job was at a construction supply company, i got sent for a can of tartan paint, knew it was a joke but tought id go for it, took me an hour to get there and back and when i got back i told them it was on back order and would get sent out tomorrow