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A local business is advertising for "Director of First Impressions." AKA - a receptionist. LOL
Does anyone work at a place with silly inflated titles?
Like I run my own company in real estate and training. I'm technically the "President and Chairman of the Board" - but seriously, of a company with two full time and four part time employees?
Based on that my business card should probably say, "Head trash can mover, Head window cleaner, Plumber, VP of Phone Answering, and Account Receivable Manager."
I know it. Misleading nonsense. The first think you think when reading the title, "Oh Director?" ... Then you see the lousy pay.
Its even worse when they require a bachelors degree. Gimme a damn break already with this crap. You dont need a college degree to answer phones, push paper, make travel arrangement for some suit and file stuff. Its an INSULTING to a college graduate that is capable of so much more that has to settle for positions like this
Haha! I saw this the other day on a job posting. "Director of first impressions." I don't get it. Maybe it's to make the receptionist feel less demeaning.
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There are many silly job titles on Linkedin, but some of the titles at software companies that I work with at times are trending words like "Wizard, Magician, and Ninja." Guru has been around a while but is more common. My favorite, however, is "Chief Thinker."
I once worked at a company where the receptionist filled in as the CEO's assistant while she was out on maternity leave. When she returned, they didn't want the receptionist that was filling in to feel like he was getting ''demoted'' back to his original position, so they changed his title to, ''Ambassador of Customer Relations''.
Don't forget titles like sanitation engineer, or garbage man. Other favorites:
* Building engineer aka maintenance man
* Telecom engineer aka telecom technician
Actually, in high rises a building engineer is far more skilled than a maintenance man. The building engineer title makes sense where I live. The building engineers in my area are high skilled in electrical and plumbing and have a very good sense of how utilities are fed throughout the building as well as how to access each valve, etc. They do essentially need to know the inner workings of the entire building. To add to that they need to know the local laws around fire safety and are present when the walkthroughs occur. They deserve that title IMHO.
Its even worse when they require a bachelors degree. Gimme a damn break already with this crap. You dont need a college degree to answer phones, push paper, make travel arrangement for some suit and file stuff.
Heh. During the dot-bomb fallout, I worked at an ISP where we paid phone support staff like $9 an hour. The owners were bragging that with so many people out of work, they could get people with masters degrees for that. I told them it couldn't possibly last and they'd leave a really, really bad taste in a lot of peoples' mouths.
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Its an INSULTING to a college graduate that is capable of so much more that has to settle for positions like this
Well, then, don't. If a degree is required up-front, and you apply for the job, how can you be "insulted"? If you cannot find anything else and take that as a last resort, well, that was a choice you made.
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