Ridiculously overblown job titles.
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Thinking about it, I seem to have the opposite of the OP; ridiculously overblown duties compared to my job title.
Akin to :
I am a baker by trade
I apply for a job as a baker with a baking company
I'm accepted as a baker by said company
Who then require me to :
Bake
Make the flour
Raise the chickens who lay the eggs for the dough
Build the chicken coops
Carry out risk assessments for the building of the coops
Source some corn for the chicken feed
Acquire a reasonably priced field to grow the corn for the chickens
Get a b
king for using the wrong feed for the wrong type of chickens
And while you're at it, why haven't you made any butter for the cake mix?!?!?
Lack of milk is not - apparently - an excuse
So I'm asked to source cows for milk
I source some free range Jersey's
They're not ISO9001 quality Jersey cows, because I don't know how ISO9001 procedures work
It doesn't matter
So I teach myself ISO9001 procedures, and source ISO9001 cows for quality controlled butter for cake mix
Everything is now in place : my baking skills, my chicken raising skills, my milk producing skills; everything we need to be Master Bakers
Except my M.D. has now decided to enter the Halal Butchery business.
Akin to :
I am a baker by trade
I apply for a job as a baker with a baking company
I'm accepted as a baker by said company
Who then require me to :
Bake
Make the flour
Raise the chickens who lay the eggs for the dough
Build the chicken coops
Carry out risk assessments for the building of the coops
Source some corn for the chicken feed
Acquire a reasonably priced field to grow the corn for the chickens
Get a b
king for using the wrong feed for the wrong type of chickensAnd while you're at it, why haven't you made any butter for the cake mix?!?!?
Lack of milk is not - apparently - an excuse
So I'm asked to source cows for milk
I source some free range Jersey's
They're not ISO9001 quality Jersey cows, because I don't know how ISO9001 procedures work
It doesn't matter
So I teach myself ISO9001 procedures, and source ISO9001 cows for quality controlled butter for cake mix
Everything is now in place : my baking skills, my chicken raising skills, my milk producing skills; everything we need to be Master Bakers
Except my M.D. has now decided to enter the Halal Butchery business.
In the US Department of Defense, there are Assistant Secretaries, Undersecretaries, and Deputy Undersecretaries to the Secretary of Defense. I worked for the Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence - Warfighter Support (or DUSD(I)-WS). Which seems like a fairly ridiculous title for a 3-star General.
My uni course was design-based, and the amount of "Founder & CEO of Firstname Lastname Designs" I saw on Facebook was amusing. Same goes with these small time reality TV people who appear in Towie for a few weeks. Next thing, they're the 'Founder & CEO' of 'Crapname Clothing' where they make a logo, and then pay another company to create the website template, print said stty logo or design onto a t-shirt, ship it out and take about 99% of the profit.
tty logo or design onto a t-shirt, ship it out and take about 99% of the profit.Seems to me that the oil & gas engineering field has stayed fairly down to earth. Engineer, then senior eng, then principal eng, etc.
But it can get boring, so I dream of concentrating on my sideline working on game fishing boats to become a Chief Master Baiter. God knows I'd be good at it!
But it can get boring, so I dream of concentrating on my sideline working on game fishing boats to become a Chief Master Baiter. God knows I'd be good at it!
we have junior engineer > senior > principle > engineering manager > director
my issue is that we have about 12 principle engineers in an office of 40 people, kinda missing the point really.
most job titles here are fairly normal. HR are, unsurprisingly, the worst:
HR business partner
relationship assistant
talent coordinator
my issue is that we have about 12 principle engineers in an office of 40 people, kinda missing the point really.
most job titles here are fairly normal. HR are, unsurprisingly, the worst:
HR business partner
relationship assistant
talent coordinator
Odhran said:
One school I was in had a 'Business Manager' (School secretary) and also an 'Executive Head Teacher' - Why executive? This particular school was a tiny rural school with 100 pupils.
School Business Manager is the modern job title for a Bursar (i.e. someone with responsibility for the financial administration of the school). Usually the role also encompasses administrative responsibility which is why they may appear to just be a Secretary.Executive Headteacher is a Headteacher of more than one school. This is increasingly common in rural areas and/or schools with a very small number of pupils due to the high cost of employing a Headteacher.
One of our suppliers introduced the role of "business excellence manager".
That has now evolved into a business excellence department; whilst the title is laughable, its been introduced as the company in question has had legendarily bad customer services ... and the obvious solution is to introduce a whole new department of middle managers.
There's a whole golgafrincham b ark thing going on in business, Douglas Adams was (as always) right.
That has now evolved into a business excellence department; whilst the title is laughable, its been introduced as the company in question has had legendarily bad customer services ... and the obvious solution is to introduce a whole new department of middle managers.
There's a whole golgafrincham b ark thing going on in business, Douglas Adams was (as always) right.
z4RRSchris99 said:
Three chaps came to a meeting the other day, on their cards they had:
head of clientology
head of pixology
ideas person
I have no title, much easier.
I keep telling our MD that I should just have my name on my business cards, my new title is just daft as it makes it sound like I'm just a Jack of all trades!head of clientology
head of pixology
ideas person
I have no title, much easier.
One that irritates me when I see it is 'fee earner'. I notice this is particularly common in solicitors. When I bought my house and appointed a solicitor for my conveyancing, I received a letter thanking me for my instruction and they will shortly allocate my case to a fee earner. I couldn't help wonder what that meant. A solicitor? A licensed conveyancer? A hooker?
I understand the term is used in many businesses to describe a member of staff who charges for their time, but I have seen it several times on business cards, which I think is a bit w*nk.
One of the directors said that it is partly because we tended to work for the customer, and a construction project, there could be any number of engineers and calling us senior engineers made it clear who was in charge. It was mostly because most of our clients demanded somebody with a senior role in the company, so the answer was to shove 'senior' in front of the job title of anybody who wasn't a director.
I understand the term is used in many businesses to describe a member of staff who charges for their time, but I have seen it several times on business cards, which I think is a bit w*nk.
Silverbullet767 said:
Don't forget Senior.
(I might have senior in my job title as part of my work)
I did in my last job. I worked for a small regional office of an M&E consultancy. There were two others with the same job title and a senior manager. Our secretary was the regional coordinator.(I might have senior in my job title as part of my work)
One of the directors said that it is partly because we tended to work for the customer, and a construction project, there could be any number of engineers and calling us senior engineers made it clear who was in charge. It was mostly because most of our clients demanded somebody with a senior role in the company, so the answer was to shove 'senior' in front of the job title of anybody who wasn't a director.
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