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Your proposed titles seem as arbitrary as any. I see no advantage. |
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I agree with bristolz. Your titles aren't entirely too meaningful without some sort of physical or emotional reward. I propose that you institute an entirly feudal system where there is actually power deligated by means of these titles. |
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some people don't ever attain 'sultan' or 'overlord' in their lifetimes whether they would like to or not. To then refer to someone as an 'underling' because they do a job that is somehow of a standard less than someone else - wreaks of pretension by the person handing out such derisive names. I imagine a janitor or the guy who pumps gas, prefer more important sounding names so they can have some sense of importance in their job contributions. |
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Janitors who clean up after you and people who pump your gas have different reasons for doing the jobs they do and to refer to them in a negative way is kind of insulting. |
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2nd liutenent, 1st liutenent, captain, major, lite colonel, full colonel, general, etc. paygrade matches title, very standardized, no question who is what. |
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To reinforce dentworth's comment - anyone who has spent any time at all in the military could disabuse you of the remedy possible from strict rank titles. Some of worse forms of cracked-pot job-title aggrandizement can be found in army "specializations". You'll never stay ahead of this one. Nothing's in a name really, but I'd be happy if management would just leave a name alone long enough for a person to feel the chafe of it. That's only honest. I can take tremendous pride in the ditch I dig, but false praise just takes the wind out of me. My dad wasn't a hired-hand like grandpa - he got promoted to employee. Just when we started to get our minds around that division of blue/white collar we got promoted to associates - and then to team-members. Sounds elevating, but it's really just a sideways moving target. I do find it insulting, whether recieving or having to administer it. Only in rare cases it aspires to more than manipulative flattery. |
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Just add your pay to the end of your title. That's the true indicator of your rank in the corporate world. |
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Some of these come from the pathological desire of humans to be "accurate". I think "Bus driver" is fine, but somewhere someone said, "but actually s/he also opens and closes the doors, we really should call her a "bus operator". Just so that everyone knows that she does more than drive a bus. And so she was. |
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Same reason people don't drive cars any more; they drive vehicles. Because someone said "hey wait, technically a pick-up truck isn't a car." So now no one can use the word car anymore, even people who have cars. It's all motor vehicles. That's why reading your auto insurance contract is so complicated. |
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New title suggestion for all: Doer. |
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Doer? That smacks of corporate optimism and may be complemented with the job title equivalent of Ren's Apathetic Twin: procrastinator. |
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Procrastination is an action. |
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