Does anyone else initial their work gear?

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A coworker put his initials on his gloves, so I took the liberty of providing a nickname based off the two letters.

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LMAO

When I was in the field, yes we marked our tools and equipment. There were thieves in the brotherhood.

When our oldest went to vo-tech in high school, I had him initial his tools with the dremel. He was the only kid to do so. Teacher saw it on day 2 and said he must have a very smart father and asked what was wrong with everyone else. LOL
 
i always wondered what all those random letters on my tools stood for
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I used to mark all of my tools when I was still in the line crew. Sadly, there were people around who would steal The Lords Supper...and wipe their butts on the table cloth! :mad:
 
Marine boot camp. We had to mark everything with a stamp kit. DI found a sock with no markings on it so we all were made to dump out our foot lockers, push all the stuff into a pile in the middle of the squad bay and then we had 15 minutes to get "our trash" from that pile! He called it "Climbing Mt. Suribachi" from Iwo Jima fame. There were 90 of us!!!! Hilarious now I think about it, as was much of Boot Camp.
 
pishta said:
Marine boot camp. We had to mark everything with a stamp kit. DI found a sock with no markings on it so we all were made to dump out our foot lockers, push all the stuff into a pile in the middle of the squad bay and then we had 15 minutes to get "our trash" from that pile! He called it "Climbing Mt. Suribachi" from Iwo Jima fame. There were 90 of us!!!! Hilarious now I think about it, as was much of Boot Camp.
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Makes me think of Full Metal Jacket
 
I watched a guy make himself a stand for all of the Standard T-handles that he stole from my cart.
When he got it done I took it and put My name on that too!
 
He should turn around and make fun of your spelling.
 
Many years ago our snap-on rep strongly discouraged the techs from marking their stuff.
His story was that the mfg. would refurbish returned tools and this would prevent them from being re-issued. I always thought he figured it would hurt his bottom line from techs replacing lost tools!
 
My old man had his social security number on all his tools. Yeah, it was before identity theft was a thing.
 
pishta said:
Marine boot camp. We had to mark everything with a stamp kit. DI found a sock with no markings on it so we all were made to dump out our foot lockers, push all the stuff into a pile in the middle of the squad bay and then we had 15 minutes to get "our trash" from that pile! He called it "Climbing Mt. Suribachi" from Iwo Jima fame. There were 90 of us!!!! Hilarious now I think about it, as was much of Boot Camp.
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The guy was a phyco
 
We had all kinds of characters in the Corps....Had a Staff Sgt. that took a log out of a toilet that was supposed to be clean for an inspection and made us pass it down the formation until someone claimed it as theirs! OMG, we were in disbelief as this was happening.."Is this your ****? Give it to the next Marine...Is this your ****? Pass it on!..We're gonna find this Marine!" Oh man....that guy was actually the guy I would follow into combat over anyone else in charge of me. 110% Bad ***!
 
I even marked the company tools that belonged on my asphalt plant. Had to rescue them from the rockheads time after time :lol:.
 
Unconventional said:
I even marked the company tools that belonged on my asphalt plant. Had to rescue them from the rockheads time after time :lol:.
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we've had stuff disappear from our shop a few times, only to have it show up at the local pawnshop
all markings still clearly visible

maybe we shouldnt hire methheads?
 
To many stories about tools walking off the scaffolding. Ya think ya dropped it , it will be at bottom of a 6 story scaffolding when you climb down only to see it in another’s bag 2 days later. And then they call you a liar when confronted so you flip tool over there’s your mark. Oh thanks for finding my tool so everyone in a 2 mile radius can hear go back to work. That’s an anal orfice. They were never around on the crew very long if the foreman didn’t can them we helped him to see the error in his ways and they usually quit
 
Ahoey said:
To many stories about tools walking off the scaffolding. Ya think ya dropped it , it will be at bottom of a 6 story scaffolding when you climb down only to see it in another’s bag 2 days later. And then they call you a liar when confronted so you flip tool over there’s your mark. Oh thanks for finding my tool so everyone in a 2 mile radius can hear go back to work. That’s an anal orfice. They were never around on the crew very long if the foreman didn’t can them we helped him to see the error in his ways and they usually quit
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I had a real nice wood handled utility knife on the job one day, and a guy kept making jokes about stealing it. Somehow I lost it when we were building scaffold, and I thought maybe he did find it and take it. I was just about to ask him if he'd seen it when I spotted it clipped onto an X brace below us. It miraculously caught itself upon falling out of my pocket.
 
RussellSullivan said:
I had a real nice wood handled utility knife on the job one day, and a guy kept making jokes about stealing it. Somehow I lost it when we were building scaffold, and I thought maybe he did find it and take it. I was just about to ask him if he'd seen it when I spotted it clipped onto an X brace below us. It miraculously caught itself upon falling out of my pocket.
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Bought brand new Kline needle nose pliers had them 1 day and gone had a giant attitude but said nothing. The next weekend was washing engine in dart saw the jammed between rad cradle and overflow tank. Glad I kept mouth shut.
 
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