...work-related nicknames are by far the worst, you need individual rebuttals for each circumstance, not the school-yard swears we used as a kid.
I work at two hotels, same job - bellman...park cars, bags, you know the story. Both hotels are owned by the same family, and when an opening came up for my current part-time job; I was approached by the owner's son, Jeff. Thing about Jeff is that he's very direct and frank, which can be construed as rude or excessive-compulsive if you don't know much about him (e.g. most of the staff at my full-time (and first) employer/ment
http://www.lordelginhotel.ca/
So word going around with some of the other bellmen is that i'm some kind of informent for jeff (his protege) or some horeshit like that...appropriately nicknamed jeff junior, or JJ...Even the assistant manager calls me JJ - but he says it stands for Juicy Joes. Not sure what that means, but he's gay and winks when he says it.
So yesterday i made the mistake of telling some of my co-workers
at my second job (where jeff is assistant manager) about this, and holy shit geuss what? - they all call me JJ...i feel like george in that seinfeld episode coco the monkey