Job titles that sound like a load of old tosh? (lighthearted)

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Just thinking about roles in ‘new’ disciplines, spent a lot of this evening trying to explain one similar to one in the below list to my DGM (91)

Director of Engagement & Diffusion
Head of Patient Outreach
Director of Culture

My job title is shit,

I’m a Co-Ordinator of the entire business (not exact title but don’t want to be too outing)

The business is massive and apparently I Co-Ordinate the whole place.

DHs old job title was ‘Centurion Administrator’...sounded 100x cooler than it was.

I’m a ‘Forensic Planner’

I was once Assistant to the Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister. It would have been grand, but there a few of us with the same title

I once had a job application in from someone who listed "Wizard of Light Bulb Moments" as a previous role. I interviewed him and discovered it meant he was a project support officer who was quite creative

Domestic violence coordinator
Teenage Pregnancy coordinator

I really feel that the titles needed a rethink.

My workplace has "crack cocaine coordinator". I want that job title so much 🤣

At work, I have to ask people for their job titles. Lots of them sound like gobbledegook.

Today I saw a "Launch Champion" (whatever that is) and a "Technologuy."

A colleague of mine is Chief Disrupter

End of life champion (not me)

I always thought a "Sandwich Artist" was a bit of a poncy name for a sandwich filler at Subway

Senior creative

In a previous role I was an "Invention Manager"

We are currently looking for scrum masters

I know someone whose job title is “head of knowledge” tbf they are very clever

SIL is a "Star Ambassador" at Mercedes. TLDR: receptionist

I know it's also en vogue for public sector jobs to have middle managers to be called "Business Partners". WTF. What business? And how are you a partner?!

Timmytoo beat me to it
Thinker in residence (yes this is an actual thing, the city where I grew up would hire a new one each year while they were running the program)

My BIL is a cardboard engineer!

MrsBungle head of knowledge . I want that job title

Head of Citizen Experience.

I've had some corkers of job titles in the past. My current one is the first I've had in a long time where people don't just look baffled when they hear it.

I’ve got a stupid job title. Far too outing to say (to anyone that knows me) It’s annoying. People say ‘hello Princess, what is it you do?’ And I end up rattling off my job description and outlining the things I do that aren’t necessarily in my JD......... all the while internally telling myself to SHUT UP

A friend of mine was Head Of Hygiene Operations for a while.

( aka school cleaner )

I was a "chill colleague" in asda

A girl I used to work with is now listing her job title on LinkedIn as "Chief of Joy".
She used to go around our office on roller skates, watering plants and making smoothies so seems about right if tech startups are still extraordinarily wanky?