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To think that these people have got it all wrong!

211 replies

Yesornono · 07/01/2019 18:51

Two ppl today!!
Person 1 on Facebook: oh I am just so happy to have started my new teaching job!#officiallyateacher

Me (to myself) eeehhhh... you are not a teacher you are a teaching assistant (not putting down TA’s (as I know they are a godsend) but... there is a difference between teacher training and TA training 🤔

Person 2: in the supermarket, I bumped into an old friend. Having a catch up and she tells me her daughter is in college, I say fantastic etc what is she studying? Answer: Law, ooh fantastic etc etc then she says “ I know just think in 3 and a half years (she’s half way through 1st year) she will be a solicitor!! Me (to myself) eeeehhh NO in 3 and a half years she will have a law degree 🤦‍♀️

AIBU to think these ladies have got it all wrong!!??

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Lougle · 08/01/2019 20:26

Ah yes, it's "Registered Nurse" that's protected, not "Nurse". They want to add "Nurse".

JohnCRaven · 08/01/2019 20:27

My friend has a PhD in psychology and in her work setting calls herself Dr. Doesn't do peacocking in real life and is happy to just be called Kate.

Neither my parents nor my husband know what I do for a living. DH described a mishmash of the job I did for 7 years and this one I've done for 2 years. I'm literally the only person in the world with my job title because me and my boss made it up but no bugger outside my organisation has a clue Grin You can't really show off when people make this face Confused

loubluee · 08/01/2019 20:57

Yesornono o well just a suggestion! I say that because his course is the only one according to their prospectus that offer this, so he leaves able to go straight into a trainee solicitor position. That is if he chooses, or goes to work as a paralegal.

It’s funny what parents say. When I qualified as a teacher they told people I was a teacher. When I worked as a trainer they said I was a trainer. When I became a learning and development manager earning way more than my previous two jobs and having a hell of a lot more responsibility. I was still a trainer🙈maybe those four words were too hard to remember!! I actually had family display shock when their children graduated and I mentioned when I graduated- what you graduated from university?? Ummmm no that’s why I was a teacher 🤦‍♀️ It wa because I started my degree when my son was 3 months old, and I didn’t make a song and dance about graduating I just breathed a sigh of relief!!

Accountant222 · 08/01/2019 21:21

I was once introduced at a conference as British Steels leading expert on Letters of Credit (Export related) and thinking about it the calibre of people they employed, I probably was, I turned round to see who they were referring to.

BoomTish · 08/01/2019 21:41

I have the opposite with my mother. I hold a pretty senior business role- get to make lots of important decisions about company strategy, manage millions upon millions of a budget, and all that jizz.

She introduces me as “a typist”.

Guineapiglet345 · 08/01/2019 21:43

A couple of years ago I worked with a young woman, she was about 21 so it was only her 2nd job after she left school.

On her CV she claimed to have got 10 A GCSEs, but had no further qualifications and claimed she had done the accounts in her previous job. Speaking to her it was clear as day to me that she could never have achieved 10 A GCSEs even if she’d had the answers beforehand and her ‘doing accounts’ turned out to be processing stationery orders for small businesses who paid on account.

The thing was she was too thick to realise that ‘doing accounts’ doesn’t mean placing orders, I think she genuinely thought she was doing the same work as an accountant.

ReflectentMonatomism · 08/01/2019 21:56

She introduces me as “a typist”.

I bet she wouldn't do that to your hypothetical brother.

rabbitmat · 08/01/2019 22:07

My brother used to say that he studied painting at Oxford when actually he had trained to be a painter and decorator there!

My former flatmate had quite a good job and one night she was telling me how she had left school before taking any exams and had no qualifications. When I asked how she had got her job she replied 'that's not what's on my CV!'

BoomTish · 08/01/2019 22:08

I bet she wouldn't do that to your hypothetical brother

Absolutely not.

(Not that it matters but I happen to earn twice as much as my two brothers combined. They’re both brilliant but there’s definitely a difference in terms of our careers).

ReflectentMonatomism · 08/01/2019 22:10

and all that jizz.

I'm hoping that's a typo, by the way.

BoomTish · 08/01/2019 22:12

I'm hoping that's a typo, by the way

It was, but then I left it to see if anyone would spot it!

EdtheBear · 08/01/2019 22:50

Is a Nurse still a Nurse if they stopped nursing when they were expecting first child and haven't worked for 40 years at least?

I've had somebody aged 17 claim to be a qualified chef.Hmm

User258 · 08/01/2019 22:55

A doctor of nursing is extremely qualified to give out health advise and sometimes even more so than a doctor of medicine that is only two years in.

It takes over 6 years to become a doctor of nursing and only 5 to become a medical doctor. That said, he probably should introduce himself as a doctor of nursing to clarify.

Graphista · 08/01/2019 23:02

"Be careful if you ever want an accountant, because literally anyone can call themselves one. If you want a properly trained/qualified one, you need to look for the "chartered" title." I'm well aware. My aunts a chartered very experienced and well thought of forensic accountant - quite a few of the cases she's dealt with are people in a mess because they used someone they THOUGHT was a qualified accountant who barely had bookkeeping skills! They then come unstuck because "ignorance is no defence" the responsibility is on them to have hired someone properly qualified and checked their references. It's mainly tax issues but sometimes it's erred into fraud and they've ended up with custodial sentences.

Threadastaire · 08/01/2019 23:11

When I first started dating my DH he didn't know how to explain my job (charity sector) to his mum so he told her I was a social worker. Was a little awkward a few years later when I went back to uni to do a social work degree and she thought we'd been lying to her about my profession. DM used to tell people I was a carer or cleaner. Charming!

GunpowderGelatine · 08/01/2019 23:14

OP I'm wondering if we know the same person, I had someone on my timeline put that (or something very similar) and a "best teacher" pencil case or purse, hard to tell, when she was just starting as a TA Confused

My SIL is doing a foundation course in psychology and is apparently looking forward to becoming a psychologist in 2 years time Hmm

GunpowderGelatine · 08/01/2019 23:16

Also the teacher thing...I work in a school so know what teaching is like (NOT a teacher) and if anyone ever introduces themselves as "I'm Lucy and I'm a teacher" TBH my heart sinks a little for lost dreams in a time when teaching is crap

BunsOfAnarchy · 08/01/2019 23:21

Ive seen a few posts of the years where some girls are putting MUA after their name on FB...9 times out of 10, they just take millions of selfies on insta with a shit tonne of makeup on and never have any real qualifications for it and never actually do anyones makeup professionally 😂

jocktamsonsbairn · 08/01/2019 23:26

I am a teacher and we had a parents afternoon when one CF parent came in and loudly told me to "just sit down doll, I'll take this! " and kept telling everyone she was a teacher. Fortunately the kids and parents were giving WTF looks and ignored her as she clearly had no clue re subject matter or anything else! Someone sent me a screenshot of her FB page where she had announced her new teaching career and how well she had taught everyone that afternoon! ShockAs colleagues we regularly help each other out by saying "sit down doll, I've got this"!!!!

GunpowderGelatine · 08/01/2019 23:26

@BoomTish I have similar! My brother is a cold caller in a call centre, she tells people he's a supervisor for an insurance company.
I have a senior role in a private school that nets the school six-figure donations and she tells people I have a "lovely little admin job" Hmm

Andromeida59 · 08/01/2019 23:37

I remember one person who would talk down to me because he was a "qualified solicitor". Turns out he'd taken the first module of an OU course and not even finished that. Some people like to B.S.

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Yesornono · 08/01/2019 23:38

@GunpowderGelatine 😂😂 sounds uncannily similar!!!! Probably the same person!! 😮

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bruffin · 08/01/2019 23:51

Ozgirl75
My rather snooty neighbour was telling me how her daughter was at Oxford - I asked what college and she said “well Oxford Brookes actually”
Last year on the train a young girl was telling her friend she was waiting from an offer from Oxford Brookes. She went on tell her it was part of Oxford University and they shared lecturersConfused
Think if she got in she was in for a shock.
FWIW Dd had already got her offer from Oxford Brookes and it was her insurance.
Ds used to tease hee she could say she was going to Oxford "cough"

TheActualAlexa · 09/01/2019 00:04

In a similar vein to “studying at Oxford (Brookes)”, I liked to jokingly brag about having “played Glastonbury” with my band...The fact this gig took place in the corner of a pub in the town centre entirely unrelated to the world famous festival, being mere details.

Pinnacular · 09/01/2019 00:23

An ex neighbour used to brag about her (18) year old daughter being a pharmacist. It turned out she was a counter assistant in a supermarket pharmacy, who had applied to become a pharmacy technician. Confused Pharmacist is a protected title too.