Ridiculous/wanky job titles
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scifisam
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Queen's Remembrancer. Though that's actually quite cool as well as daft, and I doubt he'd ever have to send his CV in to a newspaper.
I have a friend whose job was Coordinator of Domestic Violence in Northamptonshire, which doesn't give quite the right image of what her duties were.
I've always liked 'best boy.'
I have a friend whose job was Coordinator of Domestic Violence in Northamptonshire, which doesn't give quite the right image of what her duties were.
I've always liked 'best boy.'
I remember a few years ago I was talking about this with my dad and a quite dry witted old friend of his and the stupid PC (and I'm not saying I Agree with the shit the Wail talk about 'Political correctness gorn mad, when peopel say that they are usually just moaning that they can't be racist any more, I just mean the sillier end of it) job titles. Because my dad's a guitar player, his friend said he should be called a 'String Manipulator'. We all laughed quite loud at that one 
I remember an American on a forum once going 'What's a bird table?' when a British poster was talking about their garden. It was explained, and the American said "Ah! A feeding platform!", and another witty poster said "Yeah, and who puts the food on the feeding platform? A birdseed distribution operative?"
Divisive Cotton
Now I just have my toy soldiers
Sandwich artists and coffee architects
subversplat
writer of wrongs
Does this mean "Glasses Wearer"?
equationgirl
Respect my existence or expect my resistance
The company I work for has just been assimilated into another company, who have regraded us all and given us all new job titles. Mine is IAM Specialist. One of my mates now loves phoning me up and calling me special.
And no, I wasn't consulted and I certainly wouldn't have chosen that as my new job title.
IAM = Intellectual Asset Management, patents trademarks, inventions copyright etc
And no, I wasn't consulted and I certainly wouldn't have chosen that as my new job title.
IAM = Intellectual Asset Management, patents trademarks, inventions copyright etc
Ceej
Where is my mind?
Not the catfood, then?
tim
EXPLODED TIM! (Help me!!!)
Executed Head I think is the correct term, something to do with Ed Balls's latest U turn
Epona
Radar 2006-2020, Sonic 2006-2022, Jakey 2007-2024
It can work both ways tbh... I've worked a few times in very small organisations where the paid staff consisted of the CEO and the Admin Assistant. Would it really kill anyone to upgrade the job title of the Admin Assistant to Office Manager or something that sounded as though it was vaguely important to the running of the organisation?
DJWrongspeed
radio eros
I saw "Director of Insight" recently in the NHS. Insight into what exactly begs the question ?
felixthecat
are we there yet?
they want someone small and gobby?
DJWrongspeed
radio eros
Pickman's model
sunset spires and twilight woods
for six months i gloried in the title of research assistant although i was neither assisting nor researching. but it was at least £16.70 per hour.
Cloo
Banana for scale
I heard of one of the big digital business having a 'head of vibes', although funnily enough it was actually quite a good description of the role which was managing how people used the office space, events, etc - sort of a bit office manager, facilities manager, concierge, social coordinator. So wanky, but also kind of as good a title as any.
Gerry1time
Did a wee in Dirac's toilet
Search engine optimisation as a field seems to call people 'SEO Ninjas' more times than is healthy. Especially since doing it even once is more times than is healthy. Although you can slightly see their point, as you want to optimise your site and content without anyone spotting that that's what you're doing, moving stealthily like a ninja. Unlike the Guardian which seems to have given up and just does it blatantly now.
The two worst I've come across are 'imagineer' and 'futurologist'. The latter one was paid a lot of money to speak at an internal event where I worked. I just sat there, staring at him, wondering how he'd managed his life such that he'd ended up being paid wads of cash to be no better than a fortune teller for corporate suits.
The two worst I've come across are 'imagineer' and 'futurologist'. The latter one was paid a lot of money to speak at an internal event where I worked. I just sat there, staring at him, wondering how he'd managed his life such that he'd ended up being paid wads of cash to be no better than a fortune teller for corporate suits.
