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One of the perks of working at a tiny and probably doomed startup is that everyone can be "Senior VP" of whatever they want :)

gumby 4y ago
At one company we had a policy that you could have any title you want but it had to reflect your work and not provoke mockery. The example of the latter was "Sure, you can have cards that read 'Software Wizard' but what will happen if you show that card to a colleague?" There was only one person whom everybody else agreed was a true software wizard and that person just wanted the title "Programmer" -- actually they didn't want cards at all. One wag said he wanted the title CFO. We said that would be OK but he'd have to actually do the job, including taking on the liability. He decided to pick something else. The main purpose for titles was so that when you talked to someone outside the company they'd know who they were talking to "Oh, a VP. This person can sign my contract" or "Oh, a VP. THis is a waste of time; I need to talk to a developer" === OTOH I have worked in an industry where titles are super important: pharma. That's because you can get a job on a drug program that's already been under way for a few years, work on it for several years, and then move on with it still not approced. The NDAs are actually observed in that industry so you can't talk about your work. So the fact that you had a continuous rise to senior associate director showed that you had been at least valued by your employer.
- bee_rider 4y ago
  IT should have the title Software Warlock because their job is to wrangle daemons into place. QA can be the Software Paladin or Cleric. If you write source code your title is obviously supposed to be Sorcerer, why is there even a question here.
  - throwawaylinux 4y ago
    IT has to be Computer Necromancer, surely? Their job is to resurrect dead systems. I mean you go to IT complaining about a miscreant computer and the very first thing they'll do is tell you to kill the thing then raise it from the grave.
    - bee_rider 4y ago
      Maybe on the Windows side, the natural state of a Windows PC is a sort of operating, but decayed; in a state of partial death. Somehow kept from passing beyond by presumably unnatural forces.
  - IncRnd 4y ago
    http://oldcomputers.net/sorcerer.html http://oldcomputers.net/sorcerer.html

gumby 4y ago

At one company we had a policy that you could have any title you want but it had to reflect your work and not provoke mockery. The example of the latter was "Sure, you can have cards that read 'Software Wizard' but what will happen if you show that card to a colleague?" There was only one person whom everybody else agreed was a true software wizard and that person just wanted the title "Programmer" -- actually they didn't want cards at all. One wag said he wanted the title CFO. We said that would be OK but he'd have to actually do the job, including taking on the liability. He decided to pick something else. The main purpose for titles was so that when you talked to someone outside the company they'd know who they were talking to "Oh, a VP. This person can sign my contract" or "Oh, a VP. THis is a waste of time; I need to talk to a developer" === OTOH I have worked in an industry where titles are super important: pharma. That's because you can get a job on a drug program that's already been under way for a few years, work on it for several years, and then move on with it still not approced. The NDAs are actually observed in that industry so you can't talk about your work. So the fact that you had a continuous rise to senior associate director showed that you had been at least valued by your employer.

bee_rider 4y ago
IT should have the title Software Warlock because their job is to wrangle daemons into place. QA can be the Software Paladin or Cleric. If you write source code your title is obviously supposed to be Sorcerer, why is there even a question here.
- throwawaylinux 4y ago
  IT has to be Computer Necromancer, surely? Their job is to resurrect dead systems. I mean you go to IT complaining about a miscreant computer and the very first thing they'll do is tell you to kill the thing then raise it from the grave.
  - bee_rider 4y ago
    Maybe on the Windows side, the natural state of a Windows PC is a sort of operating, but decayed; in a state of partial death. Somehow kept from passing beyond by presumably unnatural forces.
- IncRnd 4y ago
  http://oldcomputers.net/sorcerer.html http://oldcomputers.net/sorcerer.html