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?

I can’t even remember the job title, but it was when a dd who worked in the humanitarian sector, was between jobs and looking for her next.

Since I couldn’t understand the job title, she showed me the job description - half a page of such wanky jargon-speak I couldn’t understand that, either, so I asked her what the job actually involved.

She said, ‘Basically, going to a lot of meetings and talking shite.’ 😄
(That was one she didn’t apply for.)

I'll bet the few humourless souls who chipped in here all have 'preposterous' job titles .

One of my relatives is a
Bisitetual (sp) behaviour specialist.
In layman's terms, she's a support worker who works in two different buildings with challenging behaviour residents 😂

Nah I'm a project manager. I just live in the real world.

I always think that 'Content Creator' is just a wanky way of saying 'posts on Instagram'. Having said that, I think there is quite a bit of work involved in it, editing, getting the right photo/video, the vlogging, coming up with ideas, grafting to brands etc.

My DH is an engineer in the 'old school' sense of the word, ie he has an engineering degree and is involved in using Maths, chemistry, physics, technical stuff to help build something and make it work as it should. He is always moaning that the word has been rendered meaningless now because people who, for example, install air conditioning machines are also now called 'engineers' and thinks it should be a protected title like it is in Germany.

At his work, one of the senior job titles is 'chief engineer' and I always think it sounds like something that a kid would call themselves when playing with Lego or something!

Head of talent acquisition - runs a juggling class

My official job title is something like cslt ntwk engr. No one outside of HR knows what it means - plenty of people share the job title, doing completely different jobs. My CV says Unix Systems Administrator - few enough people know what that is, unless they're also a techy.

Geniuses. Not, you're a shop assistant.

They should just be called 'expert in ripping people off'. Definitely not a genius.

I know someone whose very senior job had the acronym BIMBO .

I have a normal job title. But different versions of the heriachry, have my team in total different areas of the business. So I dont really know what they want from half the time.

I'm a Client Delivery Senior Executive for what it's worth.

Never delivered a client in my life and neither am I planning to.

Has no one mentioned the whole sub section of job description of, champions?

No one was doing, 'dress down Friday,' so we now have a, Dress Down Champion...

@Thisismytimetoshine I would call myself a cardiographer

Really?! And they make you call yourself a technical officer? Job titles truly are designed to confuse, not enlighten. I wonder why?

I feel bad for yall. Like this is just the modern workplace. Get with it or I guess enjoy your 'traditional job' which you're obvs so much better for doing.

Like, obvs. Totally

I was a food and beverage assistant.... Waitress.

I guess enjoy your 'traditional job' which you're obvs so much better for doing.

Who knew that changing a job title made it much more prestigious? You mean my husband would actually have been a spy if he had embraced ‘warehouse operative’ instead of laughing his bollocks off? Dammit!

I worked somewhere that had a phase of Champions. We joked there should be a Champion of Champions at one point!

Outing, but DH runs a project where he oversees a team of “Plant Health Supervisors”. It may not seem bizarre to some but it does to me.

@RubyWho manufacturing sites or actual plants like you get in the garden? Either way doesn't seem weird as I presume the former runs 24/7.

Neither!!!