I’m the Director of Sales and Marketing where I work.
I’m also the morning Receptionist as our receptionist doesn’t get in until 9, but I come in at 7 to field calls from my customers on the East Coast.
I also do the Accounts Receivable for our larger customers.
I also occasionally dabble in the Technician part of our company, since I work closely with them on large projects.
Sometimes I’m even a Delivery Boy when a customer must have their widgit to get a plane off the ground ASAP.
I am the head bartender, cook, dishwasher, scheduler, janitor, HR director(anyone want a waitressing job in Portland, I got to fire another one last night), waitress, supervisor, purchaser, accountant, entertainment coordinator, soundboard operator, and psychatrist.
I also think i’m getting the additional job of referee for catfights between coctail waitresses who share boyfriends…
And for all this it only took 11 years of college!!!
(I really do love my job though)
Oracle DBA
TCL,Perl,SQL,XML,MQL programmer
Tech Support
Trainer
It really is a great job, lots of variety.
Hey Venus mind running those back at me in English 
Smashed Ice Cream Please tell me you own the place.
Until recently, I was Cad drafter, engineering support, warehouse manager, stock boy, shipping & receiving clerk, fleet manager, delivery boy, and backup receptionist.
But we’ve increased our staff, and I’ve managed to dump all but the first two hats off on the newbies. (Yea for me!) So now I can hang out on the SDMB all day!
Smashed Ice Cream,
Hey, fellow PDXer! Where do you work? Sounds interesting…I may have to drop by.
They don’t allow us to wear hats inside our building.
My eyes are extremely sensitive to artificial light,
though, some I’m currently in “visor negotiations” with HR. Wish me luck…
uh, i still can’t figure out how to quote yet so–
stuffinb - nope, don’t own the place… i’m just a SUCKER!!! BIG sucker, i tell you! sucker sucker sucker!!!
(((((ferrous))))))
Another puddletowner!!! wooohoooooooo I work in a goofy little bar off of hawthorne., not sure how good an idea specific names are to post?? How do i find your email to tell you (I’m a board newbie)
smashed ic.
lady smashed,
Ooh, my first cyber-hug. I feel all tingly.
You can just click on the little “Mail” icon in the bar below this post.
I can’t see a reason not to post the name of your establishment (free advertising, right?), but if you don’t feel comfortable doing it, that’s okay.
By the way, there are quite a few of us.
Here’s a little help.
i got about 4 or 5 cool titles you could use (credit manager, office manager, production assistant, yada yada yada), but really, i just consider myself “employee”. they pay me pretty well and i do whatever needs to be done. (on good days, i get to drive the forklift or the VAN!) i got a cool job that allows me to prowl around these boards several hours a day, so i guess an additional title would be CFO (chief fuck-off!)
life is grand!
Well… it would be the schmoozing hat first thing (getting to know a new contact), followed by the gimme-another-pair-of-hands-now hat (beating my email into submission and taming the pending tray), then the arse-kicking hat (tell me why that deadline isn’t going to be met, & what precisely have you been doing with your time today?), the clown hat (cheering up stressed out colleague) and finally the very professional hat (speaking at a meeting). But really it all falls under the general title of civil servant.
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I got more hats than a hydra.
Turns out, when you’re good at your job around here, they just give you another one. And then another one…
My favorite hat around here is the one that I wear whilst writing e-mails for my boss. Yes, that’s right…he gives me a handwritten letter which I then type into an e-mail for him. Then I print out the draft and give it to him so he can make any changes. Then he gives it back, I make the changes and send the e-mail on his behalf. “But wait!” you say, “Why doesn’t he just do it on his own computer?”
Ahh…a wise question, grasshopper. My boss has me do his e-mail because he:
A) only has the illusion of a computer on his desk–i.e. a monitor and keyboard. No CPU.
2) is TOTALLY computer illiterate. The illusion computer is so other people in the company won’t realize that he is afraid of electronic thingies and does everything hand-written.
Yes, that’s my favorite hat.
No…wait. That’s the hat that causes my eyeballs to bleed from the waves of sheer ignorance wafting off my boss. I hate that hat.
That fits me too! I got the Delivery Boy job by telling this guy at a major Aircraft Mfg that I’d make sure personally that he got a part. The next week he phones me up “You remember when you said…”
Sunshine you just reminded me. I also have the undoing the bosses fuck ups job. This ussually invloves writing letters to pissed off customers explaining “No he didn’t really mean to imply you’re not doing your job” type letters,