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Given the incredulous reaction of the badge maker, I was at least the first he'd ever seen. It wasn't long before the rest of the staff at the company became "Wizards" and "Gnomes" as well.
Now I just put "Nerd" as my job title, and nobody raises an eyebrow.
This is my favorite stupid job title, though:
Can we stop with the self-aggrandizing CxO titles while we are at it? I've had someone introduce themselves as a CTO of a company that has 4 people. How many other technical officers are there for you to be the chief of them? It sounds ridiculous.
In the 1970s, my first job was an electronics assembly technician. Going to my first tech conference, I asked that the conference badge job title was "Gnome". Given the incredulous reaction of the badge maker, I was at least the first he'd ever seen. It wasn't long before the rest of the staff at the company became "Wizards" and "Gnomes" as well. Now I just put "Nerd" as my job title, and nobody raises an eyebrow.
> Yet a nationally representative study of 1,000 British adults, with which I assisted, found that 75% of British adults thought “scrum master” was a fake job title, or didn’t know for sure if it was real. I think this bit misses the point. "Scrum master" is pretty descriptive and explicit if you are the least bit familiar with Scrum methodology . Unlike the other examples which are intentionally obscure and playful,…
I understand the point on some level, but really, you probably don't want people applying for a full stack dev role who are put off by the obscurity of that job title..
Can we stop with the self-aggrandizing CxO titles while we are at it? I've had someone introduce themselves as a CTO of a company that has 4 people. How many other technical officers are there for you to be the chief of them? It sounds ridiculous.
It seems when you want to talk about your team, you really want to say 'This person does the business stuff, this person does the technical stuff, this person does the marketing stuff, this person helps with the technical stuff…". Something like CTO is a convenient shorthand for 'person in charge of technical things'.
> Yet a nationally representative study of 1,000 British adults, with which I assisted, found that 75% of British adults thought “scrum master” was a fake job title, or didn’t know for sure if it was real. I think this bit misses the point. "Scrum master" is pretty descriptive and explicit if you are the least bit familiar with Scrum methodology . Unlike the other examples which are intentionally obscure and playful,…
> Yet a nationally representative study of 1,000 British adults, with which I assisted, found that 75% of British adults thought “scrum master” was a fake job title, or didn’t know for sure if it was real. I think this bit misses the point. "Scrum master" is pretty descriptive and explicit if you are the least bit familiar with Scrum methodology . Unlike the other examples which are intentionally obscure and playful,…
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> So when a pet supplies company advertises for a “time ninja” instead of a human resources administrator or office clerk, we need to ask why. Why not question "human resources" too? I wonder what came first. This term or the way HR handles people as faceless commodities.
I don't actually direct anyone--I'm the only technical employee. I got the title when my boss told me he was having business cards printed and wanted to know what title I wanted. It was just the first thing that came to mind. Some titles can be very descriptive, and others are just random noise.