Tuesday, August 17, 2010

"Call a spade a spade". Name your favourite job description that inflates and mismatches the real job

Not so long ago, the name of the job described it's function. Agent, advocate,accountant, project manager, surveyor, analysis, planner, project co-ordinator etc. You knew what people actually did and what they were. Stealthily the PC seudo-science psychobabble "professions" began to use them. The Media, social science, political quangos and other third rate "hard core of nothing" professions. Name a few you know and call a spade a spade.

"Call a spade a spade". Name your favourite job description that inflates and mismatches the real job
I like the way that everyone is a manager these days, it's an excellent stroke on the part of employers, getting their staff to do more work for less money and a fancy title that everyone else knows is just 'shite'. Poor little Muppet's.
Reply:In PC World they are called customer advisors : no they don't
Reply:replenishment engineer aka self stacker.





waste management executive or binman
Reply:community support officer???? A kind of fake policeman
Reply:Dining experience coordinator... Waiter
Reply:simple


engineer
Reply:independent living counselor- caregiver for adults
Reply:I used to work processing people's applications for bank accounts. One chap put his occupation down as a "fresh produce replenishment operative". On phoning his employers (Tesco), I discovered he was a shelf stacker...
Reply:Sensual Massuer = Prostitute
Reply:I went to a car wash today and the reciept was printed with the name of my "wash service advisor": the cashier. (Granted, she did tell me about the different washes that were available...)
Reply:Administrative assistant: secretary


Domestic operations: housewife


Newspaper distribution engineer: paperboy
Reply:Refuse technician - bin man
Reply:Barrier Technician = Ticket collector


Hygiene Technician = Cleaner


Sanitory Engineer = Janitor
Reply:At work, we call dishwashers "porcelain machinists".
Reply:I am a specialist community public health nurse (health visitor)


At school I had a friend who used to work as an exterior domestic sanitation engineer during his summer holidays. He was a window cleaner.
Reply:Business Development Manager (salesman)


Executive Assistant (secretary)


Custodial Services Manager (janitor)


President (fascist dictator)
Reply:My nephew told me his new job is a "Food Service Specialist at a Fotrune 500 Company", ie; burger flipper at MickeyD's.


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