Ridiculously elaborate job titles

There’s a chain of video (well DVD/Blu ray nowadays) rental shops that call the staff Customer Service Representatives

I was working as a Principal Word Processor for a company that wanted to give us all raises & promotions, but said we’d have to come up with a snazzier-sounding title to promote us all to in order to reclassify us. I suggested “syntactical maintenance technician” but they didn’t buy it.

A buddy of mine in Clan Donald, USA was the Deputy South Pacific Regional Commissioner for Northern California. Which is to say, the local branch officer.

A lawyer in a related, hip and edgy company’s title is: The Law (which, I suppose, is the anti-elaborate job title).

He also has a huge e-mail disclaimer that includes things like “By the power of Grayskull, you will not keep a copy…”

He changes it periodically, and it keeps me in stiches.

My all-time favorite was a lady whose job was to maintain records and metrics on /of all the subcontractors for a very large Federal Contractor. When they invited her to create her own title, she chose “Data Princess.” And they gave it to her, business cards and all.

A friend of mine who works as a math teacher at a private school was presented by a mutual friend, as a joke, with business cards that had his name and phone number. Below, in italics, also appeared: “Molding callow young minds into towering paragons of mathematical acumen since 1987.” He loved the cards and passed them out with great glee.

I used to work in a restaurant where all of the employees were “Business Partners”. Do no use the word “staff” or “employees”, thankyouverymuch. Well, I didn’t see any stock dividends, so, yea, I was an employee.

But my favourite is Subway, where the workers are “Sandwich Artists”. I can just see Matt Foley from SNL shuffling his glasses, asking Phil Hartman, “I can’t see too good, Dad, is that Michelangelo over there?!?”

My wife took a job selling ads to to real estate agents who were clueless as to how to promote themselves or their properties. Her business card’s job title was ‘Advertising Fairy Godmother’.

Someone was trying to create a new position for me in the business for which he was Operations Manager (Worldwide). He wanted my position to be called Master Data Mistress; HR said that didn’t sound right. He pointed out that another business did have a Master Data Master… personally, I wanted Data Queen.

I guess I don’t get what’s odd about this one. Their role is to serve customers, correct? :confused:

Urgh. When I go clothes shoping, I DO NOT want to have an “experience”. He can keep his slimy hands far away from me, please.

What I want are competent salespeople. Which sadly are very rare.

Please note that this is a game.

And it goes Donaudampfschiffahrtsgesellschaftskapitänswitwenversicherung…

(Danube steam boat society captain’s widow’s insurance …)

Masters of the Universe? Princess She-Ra?

By the digital power of Grayskull!

I guess you’re American? Staff in shops here aren’t called anything other than staff, be they part time, full time, permanent or temporary. Unless you’re the Manager. And generally speaking you don’t get Supervisors or Assistant Managers or anything. It’s the Manager and the Staff.

When that shop had an ad in the window for Customer Service Representatives the only got about 3 applications as no one had a clue what the hell job was being advertised. All subsequent ads have said “staff wanted”

We’re not very cosmopolitan out here in the sticks :slight_smile:

I’ve always kinda liked

Under-Assistant West Coast Promo Man!

I always liked the janitor being referred to as a custodial engineer.

I like to refer to myself as a Habitat Enhancement Relocation Technician.

YouTube few more from Paul Westerberg

Isis.

I just accepted a position as a Business Development Associate. My job is to write quotes for potential customers.

I’m sure I’ll need to explain this frequently.

Salespeople just sell stuff with the goal of making a profit for their masters. Customer service (or customer experience) representatives create value in not just selling you something, but doing so in a manner that now that experience itself is justification for you to return and buy more stuff. They aren’t just selling a product, they’re selling a service model.