Discussion about fancy names for jobs.

[aimeeandbeatles]

On the student employment site that is for my community college there is an opening for a "sandwich artist." This made me think that a lot of the job titles are fancy these days, so that would be a discussion. What is the silliest fancy job title you've heard? Do you think there's a reason to change the names?

 

[downtown]

I read resumes for a living. I've had multiple people refer to janitor jobs as Sanitation Engineers.

 

[Patroklos]

Community Activist

 

[ParadigmShifter]

Refuse management technician - binman.

I keep hoping to see a job ad for a trainee assistant assistant trainee manager though.

 

[Zelig]

I read resumes for a living. I've had multiple people refer to janitor jobs as Sanitation Engineers.

Seriously? Tacking "engineer" onto a random non-engineering job is on par with tacking "lawyer" or "doctor" onto a random unrelated job.

 

[ParadigmShifter]

Microsoft have "Windows Evangelists" instead of "Marketing".

 

[_random_]

I read resumes for a living. I've had multiple people refer to janitor jobs as Sanitation Engineers.

I imagine such a job would involve the creation of new products to sanitize things.

 

[downtown]

Seriously? Tacking "engineer" onto a random non-engineering job is on par with tacking "lawyer" or "doctor" onto a random unrelated job.

Yeah, we see it for bartenders and coffee shop people too...Beverage Engineers.

 

[illram]

Starbucks calls their staff "associates" which I find silly.

 

[SuperJay]

We actually had someone in a fairly high position here called "Product Champion" for a while.

Eventually it seems everyone else realized how ridiculous that sounded.

 

[ParkCungHee]

I read resumes for a living. I've had multiple people refer to janitor jobs as Sanitation Engineers.

Are those the ones that actually require Engineering skills?

 

[Zelig]

Screw this, I'm renaming my job title to "Doctor Engineer".

 

[ParadigmShifter]

I think Microsoft have "Fun consultants" as well who organise socials etc.

 

[Lillefix]

I heard the word "cleaning therapist" once. I also know a Norwegian defence firm that added the word manager in the English title of half the staff, because American companies refuse to talk to anyone lower than manager.

 

[aneeshm]

The more the life is sucked out of a job, the more flagrant and atrocious must the pretence become to get any reaction from senses numbed by an already intolerable reality.

 

[warpus]

I heard the word "cleaning therapist" once. I also know a Norwegian defence firm that added the word manager in the English title of half the staff, because American companies refuse to talk to anyone lower than manager.

70% of the people in my office are "Managers". It's done for political reasons but it makes us look.. really silly.

 

[carmen510]

I thought that "Program Evaluation and Research Specialist" was a rather fancy title for a job, until I discovered that the job actually entails evaluation of projects and research into organizational efficiency.

 

[Xanikk999]

Starbucks calls their staff "associates" which I find silly.

Thats actually quite common among low paying retail and service jobs.

 

[aelf]

Executive. There are places with no one but executives, except maybe the janitor.

Starbucks calls their staff "associates" which I find silly.

That's partly 'cause they give 'em some bean stocks - everyone's a stockholder in the Starbucks family. Also, it's only polite to give people nice epithets while bossing them around. "Clean up this mess, associate!"

 

[classical_hero]

If you want a fancy job title, look at what I do for my job.