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Incomprehensible job titles are an elitist affectation

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Re: Incomprehensible job titles are an elitist affectation

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yeah, i still dont understand, in my company we have 2 scrum masters, and the only thing i can see they do is sending 2 emails a week and coding like juniors.

They shouldnt code at all and instead be busy with coaching your team and the enterprise in practicing proper scrum

else they be never true scottsman.

Re: Incomprehensible job titles are an elitist affectation

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"Joe's taking care of the technical side along with Jessica, Jenny does business, and Jorge handles marketing." There, no CxO stuff when the company is young. Maybe these people all know their "big" titles, but they don't call themselves that until it sounds appropriate. Until then, any business cards might as well just have names without titles. Why not? At smaller sizes formalities are unnecessary. Of course if you…

I would still think it sounds a bit weird to describe myself as 'the guy who handles the technical side' in a conversation, but I can see that it's an option if you're happy to be less formal! I guess I don't generally treat CxO titles as heavy-sounding as some other people do. I wouldn't consider it at all unusual to meet a 'CTO' at a moderately small tech company, and it makes it immediately clear to me what the pe…

You could say: I'm responsible for the technical side.

Re: Incomprehensible job titles are an elitist affectation

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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.

Telus renamed their human resources department to "People and Culture" a number of years ago.
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