[Shop-talk] Car dealer tomfoolery and Costco Auto Buyer program

[Eric J Russell]

>From my brother's internet ramblings: www.vernco.com
---------
The nickname Vern came from another job, way back in another lifetime.  My 
foreman's nemesis was a guy named Vern.  My foreman was often dealing with 
somebody complaining about what Vern did.  After a while, all forty of us in 
our department (Aircraft Maintenance) started giving the name Vern whenever 
asked, such as when answering the phone, awaking from naps, etc.  This came 
in extremely handy whenever we got in trouble, as our foreman had to figure 
out which of the forty Verns was the real culprit.

Long after the original Vern retired, we were still using his name.  When we 
received internet access at work, all sorts of threatening memos were issued 
about personal use.  Naturally it made sense to log on as Vern to use the 
work computers for surfing.  We were hoping that if our company's internet 
police cracked down, they would report that a guy named Vern was disobeying 
company policy.  The best part was that the real Vern was long retired, 
which would make the internet police look a tad bit foolish.
----------
Eric Russell
Mebane, NC
http://home.mebtel.net/~ejrussell
----- Original Message ----- 

> We did that at our last company, Jane was our non-existant Marketing
> manager.