To think that a "Cake Consultant" is just a really poncy way of advertising a job?

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So I was just reading an AIBU thread and happened to glance at the MN job adverts on the right, and this was screaming at me: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/jobs/2175240--Konditor-Cook-Cake-Consultant-Londons-Cake-Shop-7-50-per-hour-after-training
Wt-good-f is a Cake Consultant other than someone who works in a cake shop and why would you ever, ever risk putting that sort of poncy nonsense on your CV?
I mean, I would love to work in a cake shop but I'd rather drown myself in a bowl of fermenting yeast than call myself a "Cake Consultant"!

They do sell very expensive cakes, bit embarrassing they pay below London living wagw

OMFG I'd love to be a "Cake Consultant" for a living.

YANBU though. It's a bit like the people who work in Subway being Sandwich Artists.

Reasonable wage if it involves eating cake and saying "Yum" a la GGBO!

If they're after a baker - it's a pretty poor wage for London and a shit job title

They do nice cakes. Someone who loves making cakes should go for it.

Then after a while you get to be a senior cake consultant.

I agree, I don't think anybody would take you seriously.

What do you do for a living?
I'm a consultant.
Oh, what kind?
A cake consultant

I've just noticed the subsidised gym membership!

arf!

I love it! Sounds hilarious! I would love it on my CV after Sandwich Artist!

You never know, you'd probably get a better reception at a dinner party to cake consultant than management consultant.

The job is waitress/shop assistant but I love the gloriously grandiose title they've given it! It made me click on the link.

It actually sounds like hard work for not very much money.

I wrote to Mr Kipling once to ask if he had any cake testing vacancies. He never replied, the bastard.

I saw a job advertised for staff for Subway and that was for 'sandwich artists'

Here in the US we have:

Sandwich Artist (person that makes sandwiches at Subway)
Cone Artist (person who make soft serve icecream cones)

You're not an artist for assembling food.

They need to stop trying to make these menial jobs look more important than they are. It's ok to have a shit job if that's what you need to pay the bills and put food on the table. It really is. This is how you get ridiculous titles that you have to explain what they are to people.

puntastic real Sandwich Artist
Marsha, does that mean you'll end up as "CEO of Cake"?

Once you have worked in the sort of place that calls the job cake consultant, you are in for applying at similarly poncy shops, so that's alright then.

If you are applying to less poncy shops, you edit your CV to reflect the real job title, and probably have a good laugh at the interview.

Just for putting the apostrophe in "London's Cake Shop" they're twatty, let alone for the horrid 'Cake Consultant' job title.

strawberry The gym membership is there because they don't want people who look like they eat cake all day to sell cakes. That would send the wrong message. Because only thin people should eat cakes and/or you will be thinner if you eat our cakes. Obviously.
chipped I'm so sorry about Mr Kipling. What a tosser.

Sorry - totally missed puntastics post

Err, the apostrophe is correct?

Can I be a Crumpet Counsellor? Or an Eclair Evangelist?

I abandoned my cake related ambitions and now I'm a bitter accountant.

Noooo, the apostrophe is wrong, surely it's replacing the missing letter, as if it's belonging to it would be London s'?

mothership Yes, the pay is rubbish for London and the job description. Even if you include the cake. (Although there is probably also some rule that staff can't eat the left-over cake at the end of the day, nor give it to the homeless, for elf and safety reasons.)

Francis yes!

Although I did chat with someone the other day who new a Global Head of Spreadables.

Hell

Knew

Nope, sorry PinkSquash. It is the Cake Shop of London - London singular - so it's London's Cake Shop.