Do you get a nickname at your job?

Where I work at I am nicknamed various things

Mr. Computer Tech
The IT God
Wizard of Waverly Nerd :P
The Computer Hero

You guys get a nickname?

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AwesomeGarrett

Nope, I work with professionals. Not trying to sound uppity, but no one ever breaks their professionalism around here(Multinational Corp).

nster

Nope. The closest thing I have is being called Magic Hands because when I touch something it just seems to work

Mutata

I have a nickname at my current workplace, and also work with professionals - professionalism and being uptight are not mutually inclusive. Team and Org dynamics generally dictate how casual an environment may be in my experience.

Back when I did Customer & Internal support, I'd get a lot of nicknames.

N2IT

Closest thing to a nickname was hyperthreader. I was performing simulations at my last job and running heavy scripts that could take days to run. The processor would be maxed out at a 100% for at least 12 hours if not longer.

This was an i7. Eventually I began to run them on the server.

AwesomeGarrett

I wish it was more casual, we would be able to get things done much faster. May change to another subsidiary in near future.

Mutata

I'm an Infrastructure Consultant on the Software side things. I find Development Shops to generally be much more casual than more traditional organizations - I've been through that with the Banks.

I'm not sure I could handle that again.

E Double U

When people see that my initials are E.W. they automatically started calling me E-Dub. I have that in my professional and personal life. Even the CISO says it to differentiate between me and the Network Admin that I share a first name with.

philz1982

Philter (This came about b/c we need to filter our actions against our year end goals and I was the most vocal about filtering thus I became the Philter)
P-Diddy (not sure how this one came about)
Young Phil (Liked this one the best b/c I am a 33 year old on a team of 50-60 year olds booyah Young Folks RULE!)

JamesKurtovich

"Beard"

"Alpha Beard" (When other bearded men are present, mostly.)

the_Grinch

Dream Crusher - because I am a realist and bring pie in the sky ideas back to earth
The Enforcer - because I go at those we regulate
My last name - on a very rare occasion people address me by my first name

rcsoar4fun

I only worked at one place that was very uptight and that sort of thing would have been frowned on. Overall team performance sucked.

Last two places I worked everyone had a nickname. It was a high stress job with high expectations, had to do something to blow off a little steam.

Now as to what my employees call me behind my back...that I am not sure about.

Judderman88

The Geek Squad was quite a nice one. The Computer Man not so much

Ukimokia

Dan or Dan The Man (My name is David) don't know how that started.

cyberguypr

^ that reminds me of the FRIENDS episode where that guy called Chandler "Toby"

jabokim

"IT guy"

Nyblizzard

Magic Mike

Essendon

VMware guy << more often this, thankfully..

Cert wh0re

Russell77

Along time ago and for a short while I was tagged as Mainframe. Truth be told I
had nothing to do with them. I worked for a long time at a company when I was very young. I had a nickname that would make me out to be a party guy, which I was at the time. Not a good Idea if you want to climb the ladder. I did not care when I was 19 but when I was 27 being called by a college nickname at work was not a great idea. I moved on and dropped the nickname. I think for the most part I was always a good employee but could have been viewed by higher ups in a better way.

bpenn

Everyone calls me patches. Mainly because I make everyone's computers reboot for mandatory patch updates.

Fulcrum45

D-Man or Super Dave (fortunately my name is Dave). Sometimes my boss will refer to me as "Number One" in a Cpt. Picard kinda way.

JamesKurtovich

Fulcrum45 wrote: »

D-Man or Super Dave (fortunately my name is Dave). Sometimes my boss will refer to me as "Number One" in a Cpt. Picard kinda way.

Star Trek references can make any job bearable.

--chris--

My first it job had three Chris's working there. I was #3, so I became ray ray (last name). I seen two of the guys from that job and they both yelled "ray ray!!" At the same time. That one stuck.