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?

@SpeedofaSloth, I say that too

I'd probably even print it on a t shirt.

Marketing Manager - Adult Pleasure.
For a huge multinational food company. The idea was the sector description should include the target audience and the role the food played in their shopping basket. I thought it sounded like I sold sex toys...

So many wanky titles

I'm forever fortunate that I don't worked at Tossed.
Their poor employees work in bright pink t-shirts with 'Im a Tosser' emblazoned on the back.

Head of space weather is a real job. I think it’s actually something quite sensible (physics?) but it makes me laugh.

I once worked with a kind of recruitment organisation -they were frequently asked to fill "Customer Happiness Associate" roles for Virgin - essentially complaints handlers.

I also worked somewhere with a "Head of Social Brain" - or might have been Director of.. can't quite remember!

Not a job title, but thread reminded me of applying for a role with Jamie Olivers Foundation; every email was signed off with "Big Love"

Anyone who calls themselves an Engineer when they are not. Ie domestic engineers and washing machine engineers.

It is very hard to get a proper Engineering Degree and it shouldn't be belittled.

This is one step removed from ridiculous job titles, but I think it's gloriously Orwellian that Amazon calls its warehouses "fulfillment centres".

Slightly outing, but I was once on a TV documentary, and the national press took the piss out of my job title!
It's not as daft as some of the ones on here though

We have a "Director of Enabling Health and Happiness". Nobody knows what the fuck they do, but at £87k a year, I'd have a pop at it.

I’ve been on one of those Lego Serious Play courses for work. It was excruciating. We were completely infantilised and I was mortified from start to finish. Took twice as long to discuss what needed to discuss because we had to build Lego models of what we wanted to talk about first. Painful. Definitely an emperor’s new clothes approach to workshops.

I keep seeing people describing themselves as Visual Storyteller on FB. What even is that? a social media influencer wannabe?

I once worked in a company that mainly catered for teenagers, but decided to launch the product for adults. The HR people advertised for a Head of Adult Services. They got some interesting CVs!

I keep seeing people describing themselves as Visual Storyteller on FB. What even is that? a social media influencer wannabe?

Think it means Bullshitter.

@overtherainbow2020 my first thought was Ann Summers

I used to be so embarrassed by my old job title that I just called myself a ‘support worker’. In reality I was a lot more than that but no-one knew what I did, it was so wordy and really wankerish 😂😂

I remember how pleased Admin were when they said Admin Assitants were going to be changed to Executive Assistants, no change in pay, or job but they felt they had gone up in the world

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@PhilCornwall1

Facebook puts badges next to people based on their posting style in groups, it's not something they pick. So someone who posts pictures will be described as a "visual storyteller". There's others as well, like conversation starter.

www.facebook.com/community/whats-new/facebook-group-badges/

Friend who works in security told me bodyguards are now known as 'Executive Protection Agents'.

Burnt Clay artist building life size models of houses

Bricklayer !

I've a hankering to be one of the 'Gold Commanders' the government announced they were creating roles for, a few weeks ago...
I can see myself in a gold peaked cap and epaulettes...

W Hotel is full of ridiculous titles

Whatever/whenever coach
Banquet coach
Wheels pilot
Welcome ambassador

I checked into one once after a very long flight and thought I thought delirium had set in from lack of sleep when I saw the job titles

I worked making pizzas in the kitchens of Pizzahut in the 80s. I was a 'doughmaster'
Present day I work for an institution that has a Soft Landings Coordinator which always makes me smile

Facebook puts badges next to people based on their posting style in groups, it's not something they pick. So someone who posts pictures will be described as a "visual storyteller". There's others as well, like conversation starter.

Ah Facebook, now why doesn't that surprise me.

Build a bear doesn't inly sell bears though. Is there a "director of other animals bear"?

Oh god, my ex boyfriend from school got an apprenticeship when we were about 17/18, at the local council doing various admin/reception roles. He was known as “administration champion” there was also “digital champion” who just did technical things I think