Preposterous job titles

[dogsdinnerlady]

Someone sent me an email today and signed off with their job title 'Behaviour Change Training Practitioner'. What is that? Whose behaviour needs to change? Seem to be a lot of pseudo titles around these days. Anyone seen anything worse?

Stakeholder Engagement Lead - NHS Jobs

Pure and utter wankery.

When I worked as a cashier in a shop whilst in school my contract named me as "Customer Payment Point Associate"
My supervisor was a "Customer Experience Coordinator".

My current job title is 9 words long; but granted that’s because I’m technically doing two jobs at once. It’s in the form:

[Specialist role] for [Department] and Head of [Another Department]

When I email I usually don’t include my job title for only include the relevant one if required

Patient Navigator (Receptionist) - again, NHS bs.

I've come across a whole PR firm full of 'Creative Monkey', 'Digital Monkey' and the like.

They took it incredibly seriously, bless them.

@LaurieMarlow if you're still in touch, can you ask them to do something with their cornettos? Bought some last week and the ice cream in them tastes shite.

The Pope's official job title is 'Christ's representative on Earth' apparently. I think it's amazing and if I was him I'd use it at every opportunity

Why monkeys, Pauline?!

@PerfidiousAlbion

See, what does a stakeholder Lead actually do ? What does their job actually involve?

“Meetings success coordinator”
Name of the person who dealt with wedding enquiries for a national hotel firm.

I disagree @iklboo talent and hr are different!

Years and years ago I was an Accounts Systems Specialist (ASS)

Basically inputting expense claims and VAT.

Op, that me is a totally normal title.

I must be in the game too long!

Ok here are mine- head of words (she’s head a long copy not short form or any creative copywriters)
Pixel mover- front end (mainly html)
Head of feeling- they were a strategist that no one could work with and basically we’re a brand strategist.

I have a preposterous title! It's "Strategic Director", and it's preposterous because a) they were forced to allow me to keep the director part because I was reabsorbed into the larger group from the board of a smaller Ltd entity it owned, and I pointed out they couldn't demote me on paper; and b) because they never had any intention of allowing me to carry out the strategic element of my equally preposterous job description, because my new manager didn't want me, didn't need me and is a control freak.

So I have essentially been demoted to donkey work, whilst in a far higher pay bracket with a ridiculous fancy arse job title that no-one gives a shit about.

It's been a year and frankly I'm grateful that I still have a job.

I know @Anotherchangeanothername - that's what is so annoying about it. I didn't come up with it. I'm a mere minion.

@TheThingWithFeathers yeah totally a real thing. Did they mention what their certifications were in the job title?

Meetings success coordinator”
Name of the person who dealt with wedding enquiries for a national hotel firm.
That's completely ridiculous.

@topcat2014

At the BBC in real life there used to be a 'Controller of Knowledge' and a 'Director of Vision' 😂

www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/media/2011/jun/28/emma-swain-bbc-controller

Oh my friend is now called a Lego master.
She specialised in agile methodology around Lego serious play and actually has traveled around the world talking at conferences and charging a fortune for training.

The Pope's official job title is 'Christ's representative on Earth'

I would totally have that in my email signature.

Head of Words, and Head of Feelings... Jesus!!
They're a kind of "Special Projects" title, aren't they? The sort of title that says "we don't know what fecking use you are or what you do so when the next lot of redundancies come round, you're first out the door, mate"
And you can't say you didn't see it coming...

Why do people needs to be trained to play with Lego?

That's just cool, Anotherchange.

A Director of Vision sounds like an optician!