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 !

Chicken Catcher.

Why are manicurists called Nail Technicians now?
A friend of mine was a Customer Service Co-Ordinator. She sat on the help desk in the shop all day, basically a glorified cashier!
We also had a Systems Manager and a Systems Manager Senior Assistant. They did stock counts until all stock control was outsourced. Still had the job titles, but they shelf stacked and did till work with the rest of us.

Human resources - working out how much each employees component parts are worth and selling them to the highest bidder.

I was an "administrative coordinator".

No one had the foggiest of what was involved, including me. I mostly shuffled papers and played with data on the computer.

I'm proud to say the Guardian no less took the piss out of my job title- and it was actually about me, not just the generic title iyswim!

Can't say as it would out me, but I don't even think it's that daft......

The cleaners/housekeepers in a holiday park I went to were called 'domestic engineers'! There was a note in the info booklet on how to contact them if you needed something

When did euphemistic/self-aggrandising job titles start springing up? Why "human resources" as opposed to "personel"? Why "streetsmart team" as opposed to council street cleaners? Do these titles genuinely make people feel better about their work?

A while ago I met an Obesity Officer for the council. I asked her what her job involved, and she got very sniffy and said that they couldn't do anything yet as protocols had to be decided and committees and working parties formed and priorities identified. Apparently she had previously been the Five-A-Day coordinator. I didn't believe these jobs really existed and thought they were a fabrication of the DM.

Whoops, personnel I mean.

My husband is called a 'mixologist' by wanky people. He calls himself a 'bar manager', which is what he actually is!

Airline Food Critic

Sanitation Officer = Cleaner.

Some of these are great!

The main thing this thread has reminded me is how much the use of the word "role" annoys me, when discussing jobs. When did a job stop being a job & start being a role? I must have missed the memo .

utterly brilliant !

Visionary Thought Leader - I worked for one!

I love it when job titles appear grandiose.

The "managers" who manage nothing,
The "analysts" who never analyse.
The "supervisors" who have nothing to supervise.
the Engineers who simply aren't. (because engineer is a real profession)

I often fine myself wishing that was one of the protected job titles like solicitor or doctor. (it is in other countries)

my current title has the word "consultant" in it. - I'm not.

I work for an agency and it's the account mangers who work I speak to, basically a client will phone them and say they need someone for a particular day, and then they'll ring me.

I think the word "engineer" is bandied about too much these days. To me, a engineer is someone educated to University level with a maths or science based degree, someone who works on a factory production line is not an engineer!

Damn! WestEast beat me to "Transformation Manager" - wonder if we work in the same industry....

An old acquaintance of mine's mum was a Bishops Scrubber.

Cleaning lady apparently.

Always made me giggle.

Yes, I'm always puzzled by the way 'engineer' can be used to describe jobs that have nothing to do with engineering in the accepted sense.

Also, in a place I used to work the term manager had been replaced with 'team leader', which sounded as if we were all off for a game of hockey.

Bishops Scrubber sounds like the name of a sex toy.

I was a horticultural engineer!! (I picked strawberries)

My DP is a Wealth Consultant. (He's a financial advisor )

Ambient replenisher - basically nightshift!

'Doughmaster' when I worked at Pizzahut in the 80's

I used to work with a girl whose previous job had been, erm, persuading stud boars to give up their semen

I wondered what that job's title was pig wanker

I saw an advertisement for a 5 a day officer, at the local Council, I was

NK I once worked in a bank and a lot of my work had to go through the Gatekeeper. The rule in my team was you had to say it in a really deep spooky voice, especially at meetings 'Have you phoned.... The gatekeeper mahahahahahaa!'

Hours of fun.