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Simply 19 very funny and inventive nicknames that people ended up with at work

Here’s a classic Q&A that never fails to make us smile.

It all started when the estimable @jamieeast asked this on Twitter back when it actually was called Twitter.

‘What’s the best nickname a work colleague of yours has got? My favourite is one I heard Johnny Vaughan talk about – one place called a lad Levi’s because he always went home at 5:01.’

And it turned out people had lots of very inventive – and very funny – workplace nicknames to share. Here are 19 of the very best.

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