the long timers, like Dange, are proud of terms like “Old Guys” and Dange’s own “Son of Ettore”
“Noobs” are not so proud of that one, surfers use to use “Grommets” (like the fish, prob misspelled) for younger ones.
But, I bet there are many other nicknames [B][I]you yourself identify with [/I][/B]and are [B][I]proud of[/I][/B].
whether in referring to length of time you’ve been doing window cleaning,
what type of jobs you are expert at (resi, storefront, route, high rise, etc)
or something else
perhaps you’ve even heard terms used in a large corp type company that had a hundred plus window cleaning employees, they must have had nicknames of respect, status or station for each other.
what are they? I would love to know.
Disparaging ones don’t count. Just nicknames you are proud of.
I’ve gone grave digging, and I’m resurrecting this thread.
Personal nicknames I have (that don’t have to do with window cleaning):
12-15 years old
The Egg Man
J-Rod
15-17
P-Hat (I wore a Padres Hat to baseball tryouts my freshman year and it caught on, by my sophomore year the coaches forgot my real name lol)
18 years old - current
J-Thuggin
J-Rad-The-Bad
Double Tap
I had an employee (his name started with a T and for the sake of this post we’ll call him Trevor which isn’t his real name) that had gone from a customers back yard to our work vehicle to get a garlic pole. He was walking back along the sidewalk looking at the house. I was cleaning a bathroom window from the inside watching him. He tripped over a hook to the customers pool cover, he lost his balance and started flailing his arms. he ended up falling on the pool cover and in the process of all of it threw the pole not so gracefully out of reach on to the pool cover.
It was about the funniest things I’d seen. I went up to him after that job and said, "Trevor, from now on your nick name is T-Trippin. lol
I usually call newbies by the Jedi order, “younglings” and “padawans”. And as they progress the same in order " knight, master, grand master". I’m grand master lol sometimes my squeegee turns into a light sabre while I clean glass. Lol the ones that just suck or always screw up they’re called dumbass.
