What are you known for at work?

[Food Lady]

I am now getting requests for me obnoxious, over-the-top, flight-attendant-on-prozac closing announcements. Apparently it's highly amusing.

[Pimento]

I'm known for my asshole (but hilarious) comments, lifting heavy things, working my ass off and my sometimes explosive temper.

I'm also known for being the only guy to throw an 8 lb sledge hammer across the operating floor infront of management and getting an apology

[smileyeagle1021]

To day shift, I'm the lazy guy who plays solitare whenever they come in in the morning.
To swing shift, I'm the crazy guy who is wide awake when they are about to fall asleep.
To grave shift, I'm the house elf who does all the magic to make the other shifts think that nothing happens on grave shift.

[Sulhythal]

so far as I know, two things(or maybe two and a half)

Absolute Memory(if you know me, don't laugh). in my two departments of dairy and grocery I know where everything is. pretty much literally. I may not be able to tell you what aisle number it's on, because my brain doesn't work that way, but I can certainly take you to it, usually in seconds. If I haven't heard about it, either we don't have it, or only just got it. And if we used to carry it, I can probably tell you approximately how long ago I last saw it. This is odd because I'm usually quite absent minded and ADD.

The half: I can even find things without knowing I've found them, in areas outside of my expertise. I can't count the number of times someone has been looking for something with only a vague idea of what it is, and I take them to it...without knowing how or why I took them to that point, sometimes.

Customer Service. I am always cheerful, always helpful and, as above, can always find what someone's looking for. Some of my co-workers have been convinced I don't even know how to be rude.

[pzychobitch]

Chainsmoking newports when I work outside.

[iradney]

At my old job, I'm the voice of the IVR. They actually recently asked me to do another IVR recording for them - and were shocked when I requested payment for it

[Oniontears]

Job I'm leaving: 'fashion police'. I don't like pants being in the skirt section! What's wrong with that?

[Dreamstalker]

Absolute Memory(if you know me, don't laugh). in my two departments of dairy and grocery I know where everything is. pretty much literally. I may not be able to tell you what aisle number it's on, because my brain doesn't work that way, but I can certainly take you to it, usually in seconds.

The half: I can even find things without knowing I've found them, in areas outside of my expertise. I can't count the number of times someone has been looking for something with only a vague idea of what it is, and I take them to it...without knowing how or why I took them to that point, sometimes.

I can do that too. I have no idea how I know where the kosher jello is, I just do. It's gotten so famous that coworkers who are helping a customer ask me where XYZ is....this is partly why I don't like cashiering that much. I know I'll get asked random questions, and I like moving around (the 'ergonomic floormats' at the registers needed to be replaced two years ago and standing there for more than 2 hours at a time kills my back because I'm too tall for the screen/keypad).

Other things I'm known for:
Morning shift: Always a cup of coffee with me (this may go away with the coming of the new manager...I cannot do mornings without caffeine), not a fan of fake happy
Afternoon: Returns queen
Closing: Being the only one who can keep CCL in line, my strange habit of turning into a cheetah on speed if I find a perishable return at 10:57 (I know the closing manager takes the bus and needs to get the hell out, she can't leave until everyone else does).
In general: If I get quiet and curt (whether dealing with an SC or CW), everyone in range should get the person in question out of my way.

[Gimli]

The fact that my mind is a vast storehouse of trivial knowledge on the widest, most bizarre variety of subjects. And that the more precise my grammar and diction are, the more pissed off I am.

[BlaqueKatt]

sarcasm, and being the "goto" person to settle disputes on totally random things.

[Teysa]

I'm out of work until I start back on the train job in a couple weeks, but I've always been known as the voice of reason, a sympathetic ear, and a calming influence. I'm also known as someone who rarely gets angry or at least rarely shows it. I do have some tells though. Namely, I start talking very slowly and my Texan drawl becomes a lot more pronounced.

[BrenDAnn]

Me? I'm the smartass. I'm also the one who has, in my tenure thus far, passed at least 7 or 8 stings. Oh, and I have an uncanny knack for memorizing what people smoke/get for lottery tickets, too, if that counts. Also, I tend to be the one to have my money obsessively organized in my drawer--newer bills toward the bottom, all facing the same way, etc. Yes, I am that person. ETA: I am also the one who everyone thinks is omg in a hurry to switch shifts and leave. This is because I have my shit in gear and usually only have to end my shift and count my money by the time the person taking over from me gets there. I'm sorry, coworkers, if I'm organized to the point of being able to jet on out of work right away. I kind of like going home, you know.

[mathnerd]

At the bank job: I was the explainer of all things mathematical. I have a gift for breaking down even the most complex mathematical topics into terms that every day Joe can understand. I'd constantly get requests from branch employees across the country for help in explaining to their customers why the interest on a loan was what amounts, how interest on interest earning deposit accounts was calculated, and other such things. It's not that the other employees didn't know how it worked, they just couldn't explain it. I had an unfair advantage in that I taught 7th grade math and was an adjunct professor at a community college for 10 years.

Middle school teacher: I worked in a very rough school. The students called me "Sarge" when they thought I couldn't hear them, but whenever I walked into a room, they all stood or sat just a little bit straighter. Threatening to call Ms. Mathnerd was a far scarier threat than threatening to send a misbehaving student to the principal. The students also made a game out of trying to find a mathematical topic that I couldn't come up with a real world analogy for. They almost got me once, but I came back the next day with a proper analogy.

[MoonCat]

Being Scambuster in Chief.

We get a lot of scammers trying to place ads through our online ad placement system. I catch most of them, and a couple of my co-workers like to get my opinion on questionable ones (which usually do turn out to be scams). I like to track down all the ways the billing & other information doesn't match up. Unfortunately, I'm not always able to track down the legit owner of the stolen credit card info, but I try. I've also put together an info sheet of ways to spot scam ads. The scammers are getting sneakier, but most of the time it's not that hard to spot them.

[kpzra]

My last job, being the only female line tech. Also making Nat Geo cut a few scenes when they were filming due to swearing while telling a joke (but they were laughing).