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Can you post an unusual nickname for a job?

I was an electronics tech in the Navy and they called me twidget.

Posted - January 6, 2023
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  • 44600
    Thanks. What a terrible environment.
      January 9, 2023 8:30 AM MST
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  • 844
    It was for me. I worked in a very old building where the desks were in rows. After about 100 years of functioning like that (my mother worked in the same building back in the '60s and it was old then), someone decided to go modern and spend big bucks on cubicles. Ugh, you had to stand to see if so and so was at their desk, only those in one row could see the windows, and it's totally unattractive as a workspace. Fortunately, I only worked a couple of years longer after that before retiring. Terrible environment.
      January 9, 2023 9:28 AM MST
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  • 34240
    Grease Monkey...Mechanic
    Ambulance Chaser...Lawyer
    5-0...Police 
    Geek...Tech Support person
    Hard Hat...Construction worker


      January 9, 2023 4:13 PM MST
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  • 5451
    Barney
    Smokey
    Po-po
    The Bear
    The Fuzz
    The County Mounty

    Oh, here they come now.


      January 10, 2023 9:39 AM MST
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  • 53502

     

     Gee, you know a lot of cops! Are you one of those cop groupies?


    ~

      January 10, 2023 10:51 AM MST
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  • 5451
    I have an entourage of grammar cops following me around even though I’m trying really hard to commit less grammar infractions this year.  What?  Another ticket?  What did I do know? 
      January 10, 2023 5:39 PM MST
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  • 53502
    FEWER!

      January 11, 2023 8:14 AM MST
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  • 53502
    (KNOW NOW)
      January 11, 2023 8:18 AM MST
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  • 844
    I actually found a new one. I'm not making this up. I just returned from a rare family gathering, including a brother from Ohio that I haven't seen in many years. He had retired from truck driving and is now driving the local Amish or their goods around their local area, sort of like an Amish Lift or Doordash type service. They don't use phones, they have a system of messaging around town (??), He says they call him a "Yoder Toter". 

    I Googled this term because I wasn't too sure that it wasn't a type of slur and found there is an actual company by this name in Berlin, Ohio. They book by telephone and feature Dutch speaking operators but in the countryside where my brother lives, the Amish don't use telephones. This post was edited by NYAD at January 11, 2023 8:42 AM MST
      January 10, 2023 3:39 PM MST
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  • 2127
    Master baitor?
      January 10, 2023 6:19 PM MST
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  • 44600
    I performed that job on a lostah boat in Maine.
      January 10, 2023 6:33 PM MST
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  • 844
    I haven't heard that one since 7th grade (and hope that it's the last time!)
      January 11, 2023 8:45 AM MST
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