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Welcome to Hacking Your Leadership. I'm
Chris and Lorenzo, and welcome to this

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week's Thoughtful Thursday. Don't forget to
follow us on YouTube at Hacking Your Leadership

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and leave us a review on iTunes. On this Thoughtful Thursday, I'm want

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to do something a little different.
UM, I came across something on LinkedIn

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that I thought was was pretty funny
and and I wanted to go over it

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with you because I think that,
if I want to be honest, it's

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possible that maybe it applied to me
at some point in my career. And

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I want to make sure that if
anybody who's listening to this show right now,

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if it, you know, possibly
applies to them, that they,

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you know, kind of have it
called out a little bit and maybe take

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steps to change that. I want
to go over something that I saw that

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is a list of nicknames for co
workers. And there's been a couple of

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these that have you know, kind
of circled around over the years, but

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the one that I saw was a
little bit more PG and so I thought

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it was it was more appropriate to
you know, talk about on the podcast.

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Um, these are some nicknames for
co workers that I thought you know,

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I have worked with every single one
of these people at some point you

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know, hopefully not all at the
same time, for if you're listening out

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there, but um, at some
point in time, each one of these

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people and again, if I have
to be honest, it's possible that one

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of them has been me at some
point in time. Um, Lorenzo,

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have you ever worked with a kitcat, a kit cat like the candy bar?

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Yeah? Yeah, someone someone who's
always taken a break, I plead

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the fifth. Yes, I definitely
over the years have worked with those that

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that seem to always either be going
on or break or coming from a break.

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For sure. Yeah, it's tough
because, on the one hand,

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you know, if you only happen
to be seeing them when that is the

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case, sometimes the timeline just lines
up where you can be thinking that that

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is someone when they're not. But
over a long enough period of time,

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and if a lot of people are
leaving the same thing, chances are if

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if someone has a you know,
kind of garnered the hush hush nickname of

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kit Cat, uh, that it's
probably true. Here's what I would tell

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you. I think I think it's
not even so much about like taking breaks

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but like the like the amount of
times I've walking to a break room and

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I always see the same people,
right, like hanging around doing nothing,

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chit chatting whatever. Like like people
take breaks. It's all good, Like

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take a break whatever, who cares. But like, but when when you're

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it's like you're always on a break, yes, and and then not only

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are you always on a break,
but like what you're doing during the break

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is like just hanging out. That's
definitely what I would say, Like,

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that's a kit cat, right,
totally, totally one of the frustrating ones

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that I see on this list here
that when I saw it, a person

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immediately came to mind and and this
this can be This is gonna be kind

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of frustrating because you know the kit
cat. It's like, you know what,

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hey, if if no one's holding
that person accountable, then that's between

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them, and that would be a
leadership issue, you know, if someone

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is if someone's a kit cat and
no one's on them accountable. Um this

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uh, this next one, Lorenzo, if you ever worked with the motion

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light emotion light, let me someone
who only works when someone walks past.

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This was a bit more frustrating because
you can see some intentionality to it,

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you know. Okay, look,
yeah, yeah, this this is the

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first one where I have to raise
my hand. I don't think that I

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ever got the label, but I
definitely did that. I learned in my

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old retail career that if you if
you stood around and you had like a

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swiffer or a duster in your back
pocket, and when a leader would come

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on by the department, you would
just start cleaning. They would just leave

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you alone because like, you alone, you're cleaning, right. But I

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was like, but that one karaoke
machine on that one end cap was the

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cleanest one in the entire company because
that was about all the clean out.

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It's got to be an end cap
because it has to be visible, right

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when you can't clean in private otherwise
that's real. Yeah, I am guilty

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of beat emotion light. Yeah.
The next one is the one that,

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uh that you know, it's possible
that this has been me at some point

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um in my career. Uh,
have you ever worked with a seaweed?

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A seaweed? No, somebody just
floats around and sometimes bumps India. All

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right, yeah, okay, okay, yeah, yeah, like a like

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a kind of like a social butterfly. We'd say, yeah, social butterfly

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some doing anything. They're not doing
anything, but they're just kind of always

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there, like they're always there.
I don't know. I think maybe maybe

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it was driven by fomo, Like
if it was a conversation that was going

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on, it looked kind of fun. I kind of meander over to it,

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just kind of like, oh,
what's what's going over here? Guys?

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You know that kind of thing.
But yeah, just kind of just

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kind of floats around and sometimes bumps
India like um. And and then the

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last one I'll ask you about is
uh, have you ever worked with a

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deck chair? A deck chair?
Yeah, someone someone always holds under pressure.

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There are definitely people that will will
jump up and rise to the occasion

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and take on a responsibility or challenge
very very quickly. And then there are

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those that would just rather see themselves
out to the patio deck and enjoy some

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sunshine. I guess yes, I'm
out of five thousand, as we would

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call it exactly here. So what
I want to ask you, Lorenzo,

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is is there anything that you haven't
heard on this list that you might have

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worked with in the past, or
you know, is there anybody who any

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coworker you've had who is affectionately garnered
a nickname throughout your career. So I

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want to ask you that, but
first I want to give up towards one

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of our sponsors. All Right,
Lorenzo, tell me about a time when

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you worked with someone who garnered a
nickname that. And this occurred long before

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there were nicknames for coworker lists on
the internet. Right away, there's somebody

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and I'm picturing right now, and
I'm not going to give any time frame

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because that might be a dead give
way for people that know me. But

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we used to reference them as et
et like the extraterrestrial yes, because they

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always wanted to go home no matter
what, like not just phone home,

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but actually go home. Like every
like if they opened by eleven thirty in

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the morning, they had a stomach
ache, if they were going to close,

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there was traffic on the way to
work, like there was anything at

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all that that had them be at
home and go home. Was was what

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it was. And again, we
all have to go home at some point,

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we all get sick, we have
things we have to deal with.

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I'm not I'm saying like, look
I've been there, but but like to

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the point of like if I was
a closing manager and I knew this person

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was opening, I would just get
there and I'd be like, hey,

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can you give me thirty minutes just
to check in with everybody and then you

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can leave, Like it's all I
need. And they're like, really,

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because you know, I appreciate that
I haven't been feeling. I said,

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yeah, yeah, I know,
I know, ET go home. Um,

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but yeah, that was that was
That was one of the ones that

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for sure guiltiest charge around having nicknames. Yeah, I've worked with an et

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before. Um, where where I've
seen this happen is it's less about you

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know, finding another ailment you know
always has a headache or you know there's

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some tree, you know whatever.
Sometimes they run out of reasons and it's

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just they want to go home.
They're they're the ones walking up and going

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hey it seems kind of slow.
Can I just kind of leave? Like,

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am I do you do you need
me here? Yes? Yes,

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Like like when there's a group of
like two or three leaders in a circle

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and that person kind of comes over
and it's like, well it looks like

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we've got enough coverage today. Yeah, yep, Well it's like crap,

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I had four grandparents, but they've
all died over the course of the last

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three years. In air quotes,
I've I've already used those. I've had

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three headaches this month. What's left, Well, there's nothing left. Well,

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how about maybe I just want to
go home anyway, So let's just

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talk about how maybe I'm not needed
here. You know, you know what

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if if you want to put forth
the idea that you're not needed here often

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enough, eventually people will start to
believe you're actually not needed here, which

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which might be what you want.
Yeah, exactly, No, I think

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it's uh, yeah, I think
it's a real thing. I think,

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like, look, and I know, you know the I guess there's really

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no leadership lesson here besides it if
you've been one of these things, like

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think about it. But I do
appreciate that it's a little bit of fun,

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it's a little bit of reality.
It's human nature, obviously, it's

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uh, you know, being conscious
of not what I here to hurt people's

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feelings, but we're here to deal
with the reality of the situation. And

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there are people that, you know, maybe show up in different ways.

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And if we're being honest with ourselves
and you're listening to this right now,

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I guarantee you that you've probably chuckled
a little bit or laughed, or you

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know of somebody who maybe fits this
mold that you've worked with over the years,

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because I think that these things are
applicable across all industries and all teams.

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If you don't know of anybody with
a nickname in your work, you've

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never had this. You can't relate
to any of these far as you know,

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knowing somebody who works um you know, works with you, who's done

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any of these things. You know, you know, maybe take a glance

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in the mirror, just for a
moment, uh, listen to these things

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again and make sure that there's no
reason why your co workers may think any

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of these things about you, because
again, you know, the when I

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was going through them, there was
that one that jumped out at me and

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I thought, oh, that might
have been me at some point in time.

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Believe me, your your inner monologue
will tell you if one of these

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things is possibly you, you should
at the very least be taking steps to

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try to figure out is this something
that you do enough of your day where

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you know you won't kind of be
able to put down that nickname because none

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of them are great. I mean, they're funny. We we talked,

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we can we can laugh about it, and that's great and I love that

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they're funny, but none of them
are positive. From a standpoint of if

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your co workers actually believe this about
you, it's not doing wonders for your

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career. If this is who you
are in the minds of your co workers,

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absolutely, and with that it brings
us to the end of this episode.

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This is hack your leadership. I'm
Lorenzo and I'm Chris. So home

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from work early and have a great
day.