Modern job titles

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Pondy

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It seems that no job these days has a normal title. Giving a job a fancy title doesn't make it any better paid just more confusing IMO.

Here are some of my favourite titles and the old equivalent:

Feel free to add your gems:

Recycling operative = bin man
Visual technician = window cleaner
Sandwich Artist = sandwich shop server
Barista = coffee shop server
Vehicle technician = mechanic
Non executive director of sales = salesman
Business development manager = salesman
Customer accounts manager = salesman
Business manager (in a primary school) = no-one knows TBH
 
Prefer "Transparent wall maintenance engineer" for window cleaner. :D

You also forgot, Scrounging, lazy, incompetent, egotistical, slimy selfish pondlife = MP.
 
Business Manager, is what I think they used to call a Bursar in English Schools but a Finance Officer/Manager in Scotland. Must be a big Primary if they have one of those, or someone who covers a Cluster of smaller schools (more likely).

In Scotland the BM deals with all aspects of School life apart from the provision of Education, so budgets, recruitment, timetabling, H&S, line management of non teaching staff etc etc.

A big school couldn’t run without one, we’ll not very well at best :thumbsup:

Head Teachers are not the best managers I’ve come across : :lol:
 
My old job title was Janitor.
They changed it to Senior Facilities Operative and gave us a whole pile of extra duties.
So I left.
 
Argyll Andy said:
Business Manager, is what I think they used to call a Bursar in English Schools but a Finance Officer/Manager in Scotland.
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Oh my wife's school has a finance manager aswell. Multiple SENCO bods, safeguarding bods, you name it. They have more non-teaching staff than teaching. It's an average size primary (3-400) but is in a s*it area (sorry, deprived) so most of the kids are 'challenging'. :|

45 years ago my similar sized primary school had a teacher for each class, a head master and his wife was the school secretary/nurse. That was it.
 
One of my boilers, things that drive me mad, is the liberal use of the word Engineer in the UK, we have sales engineers that wouldn’t know the difference between a spanner and a screwdriver. In Europe if you have specific training up to our higher national diploma level, you’re a technician, so someone working as a mechanic is actually a vehicle technician. To be an engineer you should have a degree or higher in an engineering subject, or obtained enough expertise in a recognised and appropriate field to be one. To be a professional engineer you need to be a member of an appropriate institution, IMechE for instance.
 
sars said:
One of my boilers, things that drive me mad, is the liberal use of the word Engineer in the UK, we have sales engineers that wouldn’t know the difference between a spanner and a screwdriver. In Europe if you have specific training up to our higher national diploma level, you’re a technician, so someone working as a mechanic is actually a vehicle technician. To be an engineer you should have a degree or higher in an engineering subject, or obtained enough expertise in a recognised and appropriate field to be one. To be a professional engineer you need to be a member of an appropriate institution, IMechE for instance.
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Funny as I was thinking of the same when I posted the topic.

The word 'engineer' is used so liberally these days, nearly as much as 'manager'.
Software engineer is my personal favourite.
I am an engineer; I have worked in an engineering industry all my working. Got many technical qualifications and a degree from the University of Life :D
 
sars said:
One of my boilers, things that drive me mad, is the liberal use of the word Engineer in the UK, we have sales engineers that wouldn’t know the difference between a spanner and a screwdriver. In Europe if you have specific training up to our higher national diploma level, you’re a technician, so someone working as a mechanic is actually a vehicle technician. To be an engineer you should have a degree or higher in an engineering subject, or obtained enough expertise in a recognised and appropriate field to be one. To be a professional engineer you need to be a member of an appropriate institution, IMechE for instance.
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There was a chap in my office who had his Eur Ing Cert framed and mounted on the wall!
 
Scubaregs said:
Casey Jones, now there's an engineer for you. :D
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I believe Americans overuse the word Engineer too, they think of Casey Jones and I think of Brunel and there’s a gulf between them.
 
sars said:
Scubaregs said:
Casey Jones, now there's an engineer for you. :D
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I believe Americans overuse the word Engineer too, they think of Casey Jones and I think of Brunel and there’s a gulf between them.
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That's one train of thought to bridge........
 
Please don't get me started on this one, everyone these days is a f**king engineer. The use of the words electrical engineer and heating engineer does boil my p**s :headbang:
 
Scubaregs said:
sars said:
Scubaregs said:
Casey Jones, now there's an engineer for you. :D
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I believe Americans overuse the word Engineer too, they think of Casey Jones and I think of Brunel and there’s a gulf between them.
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That's one train of thought to bridge........
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Keep on track Scubes, Sars has been known to boil up then let off steam quite often.
 
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