Discussion about fancy names for jobs.

[Bamspeedy]

Just add 'specialist' to make a job sound a little fancier.

Janitor becomes "Environmental Specialist".

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

A friend of mine is an 'Environmental Specialist" at a hospital and he can't be accused of trying to make his resume sound more impressive because that IS his actual job title. It wouldn't surprise me if other companies had "Sanitation Engineer" job titles.

 

[downtown]

Are those the ones that actually require Engineering skills?

Ha, of course not, they're just regular custodians. One of my best friends actually *does* build and design cleaning products, but they just call him a "product designer" or something.

A friend of mine is an 'Environmental Specialist" at a hospital and he can't be accused of trying to make his resume sound more impressive because that IS his actual job title. It wouldn't surprise me if other companies had "Sanitation Engineer" job titles.

Yeah, I don't necessarily blame them, since I know a lot of companies give them those titles (my job title sounds more impressive than what I actually do as well). In fact, I advise my clients to spruce up their job title whenever possible, even if it's just a oil change guy. You get better applicants that way.

 

[Boundless]

My holiday job (which is basically reducing and temp checks in a supermarket) is titled 'Operations Partner'. Silly.

 

[mitsho]

This may be silly already in English speaking countries, but just imagine how unbelievably stupid it looks over here. And they do it nevertheless. Giving something an English name apparently makes it more modern, "hip" and more correct. It starts that everybody has a CEO nowadays, instead of a you now *insert national name for boss here*.

 

[Takhisis]

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

Actually, it's Dr. Itor, but you may call me Jan.

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!"

Well, if you take out the letters 'o-c-i-a-t-e' you see what you are really calling the person…