Workplace Nicknames You'll Want to Add to Your List at Work

If you have been listening to the show you would know our love for a workplace nicknames, for example Seaweed, because they just float around and do nothing at all. Wippa has some more to add to our ever-growing list and we even got an interesting call from a listener...

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is the Fitsy and Whipper with Kate Richie podcast.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Tommy, if we look at the merch, we needed a
bit of an update on our merch at the moment.
How many rolls of trade's nickname toilet paper do.

Speaker 3 (00:11):
We have left?

Speaker 4 (00:12):
Well, this was unique to this show and very exciting.
It's been on there for a while now. One hundred
and nineteen rolls is that Fitzy and Whipper toilet paper
roll with trading nicknames?

Speaker 5 (00:22):
I think with the position that novas in it. At
the moment, they handed them out to every employee as
a Christmas bonus. But for some reason they made their
way back to our office, tom didn't they Yeah?

Speaker 4 (00:33):
Yeah, I think they were handed back by a lot
of stuff. Unfortunately, it's quite a thick toilet paper it is.
It's quite rough.

Speaker 2 (00:41):
Yeah, it is rough for sensitive areas. I find it
quite aggressive.

Speaker 5 (00:47):
Also, see that we've got one hundred and sixty six
fitzi in whip of fly swatters that haven't really taken
off a.

Speaker 4 (00:52):
Yeah, we had less fliers that expected in Sydney over
the last twelve months. No.

Speaker 2 (00:57):
Well, the idea was that if you ran out of
the toilet paper, then you were going to get flies,
so they were expected.

Speaker 3 (01:01):
To give away after the rolls. Can I what I
wanted to do? Tommy?

Speaker 2 (01:05):
Just to update the merch for our trade's nickname toilet paper.
I'd like to put in some new roles because I've
got some new nicknames.

Speaker 4 (01:12):
Oh, you want to submit some more for me to
see to the printing workshop at.

Speaker 3 (01:15):
The center of the workshop?

Speaker 2 (01:16):
Okay, all right, So these are a few workmates here we go.
Seaweed floats around all day and does sweet fa.

Speaker 3 (01:26):
Paper straw, works for two minutes and then breaks down.

Speaker 4 (01:29):
Oh that's not bad.

Speaker 3 (01:30):
But that's not bad, thanks very much. What about the
school bus always leaves early to pick up the kids.

Speaker 2 (01:36):
Number four they've got Tesla works for one day and
then needs to recharge.

Speaker 3 (01:41):
Okay, that's good.

Speaker 2 (01:44):
What about this the elf short blow happy to work
over Christmas l.

Speaker 3 (01:50):
For alf elf elf e? Lay?

Speaker 5 (01:53):
Gotcha right?

Speaker 3 (01:54):
Gotcha? Here is aren't always in the office. Oh that's good,
And you've got Kim John only got the job because
of his dad. A lot of Scotch college kids, I suppose, isn't.
I don't know what you're talking about.

Speaker 2 (02:10):
Shaniah is another nickname for around the office and don't
impress me much. Not bad, and MasterCard takes credit for
other people's work, So.

Speaker 3 (02:22):
Tommy, roll them out, hit print. We've got a brand.

Speaker 2 (02:26):
New toilet, do you know what thirteen twenty four to ten.
If you need toilet paper, we can flick some of
these roles too.

Speaker 3 (02:33):
What did you say? One hundred and nine, one hundred
and nineteen roles?

Speaker 4 (02:36):
A very rough dunny roll.

Speaker 2 (02:38):
Save your money right now and call the show.

Speaker 5 (02:42):
Yeah, if you would like a dunny because there could
be another pandemic just around the corner.

Speaker 3 (02:47):
Just having a look at the phones right now.

Speaker 2 (02:50):
Oh hanky spanky, hanky spanky from Norellin Vale.

Speaker 1 (02:54):
Hello, Hi guys, how are you?

Speaker 3 (02:56):
But is your nickname hanky spanky?

Speaker 1 (02:59):
No, well it is, so I just planing up just
to thank you for the TV I got last week
from last week the week before.

Speaker 3 (03:06):
Oh right, good work, handy. But they didn't made everything okay?

Speaker 1 (03:11):
It made everything okay. But the nickname of God is
a spree hump? What's that slows everybody down?

Speaker 3 (03:18):
A well?

Speaker 1 (03:21):
So what I've gotcha? I didn't tell you was talking
about my name? Why didn't you tell you my mum's name?
And you're not going to believe this?

Speaker 3 (03:27):
What is it?

Speaker 1 (03:27):
Her name was Bicky Lou, Bi Lou, Dickie, d I
c k Y Dicky Lou.

Speaker 3 (03:35):
No, what was her actual name?

Speaker 5 (03:36):
What was her birth name?

Speaker 3 (03:38):
Hanky?

Speaker 1 (03:38):
Her birth name was Bircher Agnes Bleeker. So as a
result of that, that's why when she got married, she
didn't want a long name for it for the boys,
Hank and Jack, so she just made short names. She
changed the name by Deepault Dickie, and she always used
to say people didn't get the name over the fame.
She said, you know, Dicky Lou like a broken toilet.

Speaker 2 (03:59):
Pretty good, Hank, Spanky. I love going through your family history.
And for that, Hanky Spanky, we are going.

Speaker 3 (04:06):
To give you some train nickname.

Speaker 4 (04:09):
Only got one hundred and eighteen roles.

Speaker 3 (04:10):
I'm very confound. Do you know what, just just to.

Speaker 4 (04:13):
Go through that whole story every time to get to
the ending, it must be a.

Speaker 2 (04:18):
Nightmare, ye, Dicky Lou, Oh my gosh, it'sen Whipper with
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