to ask what is the daftest job title you've heard ?

[mrsfuzzy]

my local dustmen [they are all men] are now know as 'community cleansers' eh? and the term 'human resources' always reminds me of organ transplants for some mad reason. what happened to personnel department ? god, i'm getting grumpy in my dotage !

Not a job title, but I heard recently about a pair of local authority officials whose job it is to decide on issues about SEN - whether to carry out an assessment, whether to issue an EHC Plan, whether to amend it, what is to go in it, what school the child should go to etc. They call themselves a "Family Resource Panel." It doesn't describe what they do, it isn't a panel, it doesn't necessarily have anything to do with families, and they would actually be acting unlawfully if they made decisions based solely on resources. But no doubt it makes them feel good.

Substance Abuse Facilitator - worked as admin/receptionist/office manager for a team of substance abuse counsellors, their budget and offices. I always thought it sounded like a posh term for drug dealer

I was once a Business Unit Manager - BUM for short

The officer titles in Higher Education and Public sector annoys me eg. Marketing officer, PR officer, HR officer, School administrator officer

As part of my job I once had to research some stuff to do with the offshore renewable energy sector and came across a man who rejoiced in the glorious job title of "Principal Wind Specialist". I've come across a fair few keen amateurs in my time but never someone who actually got paid for it

Fuzzy he used to love it, MIL even more It was about 2 jobs ago for him but he still has the namecards.

You do seem to get some massively weird titles in construction. DP is now Package Manager. So good at managing his packages...

I like train presentation operative. Fancy way of saying cleaner as far as I can gather.

Loving the titles in the construction industry. Lol to BUM too.

Waves to the other Ilkley

I couldn't keep a straight face around a 'Principal Wind Specialist' without thinking of farting.

Someone I know used to tell people his (very nice, elegant middle class) DW was a drug dealer, and she was - she was a sales rep for a pharmaceutical company.

Head of Movement and Storage
Innovation Consultant
Repertoire Co-ordinator

I'm a "Global Head" and get no end of teasing about it from my very witty family

Hello Ilkely! ^^

TiltedPenguin. That made me

I once met Bing's (the search engine) "Chief Envisioner"

Had a friend once whos dad's occupation was listed on his birth certificate as "Banana Ripener"

I'd love to be a Banana Ripener!

Actually, Avocado Ripener would be more useful and presumably better remunerated.

My ex worked in a university Quality Assurance department, and his job title was Director of Quality Affairs. Less said about that the better...

@OnlyLovers We never worked out what the job involved to be honest, I suspect he watched them until they were ready then rushed them onto the floor of the market!

Watching avocados. I can think of worse ways to spend my time.

Wet wall technician for a plasterer.

my friend's dad was a fairly well connected foreign diplomat whose actual job title was "keeper of the peace" in Cyprus.

always thought that was very cool.

Mixologist

At £15 a cocktail I guess they can call themselves whatever they like !

Fleamadonnna That isn't daft! I would LOVE that job title!

When I worked in a bank dealing with complaints the idea of a team that would just send out a holding letter was almost named Fast Action Response Team...luckily F.A.R.T was renamed.

Same bank had a job title of 'Gatekeeper' which just sounds cool to me. She had to bounce complaints not meant for our department back to the branch but it sounded like she was preventing demons from infiltrating the bank.

whoa went overboard with the n's then!