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> an aversion to using job titles I just never understood the purpose. Humans are not inelastic beings who are a fixed cog in the wheel. I guess my official ti
by randomdata 15y ago
> an aversion to using job titles
I just never understood the purpose. Humans are not inelastic beings who are a fixed cog in the wheel. I guess my official title is developer, but I spend just as much time in UX/design and IT roles, not to mention managing people doing the same.
And that is just at the place of my primary source of income. I work in other fields, completely unrelated to software, on the side. Out of context of my entire employment picture, developer really makes no sense as a title.
- d4nt 15y agoI think it's a question of balance, at the other end of the spectrum you can get growing startups where the initial "everyone's on a level and talks about everything" approach no longer works and has given way to a combination of multiple people competing over the same territory and the old guard finding ways to remind the noobs what the pecking order is. In that kind of situation, a little hierarchy and a few harmless ways of recognising past achievement/tenure would make for a much more harmonious work place.