{"id":679,"date":"2010-03-21T17:06:28","date_gmt":"2010-03-21T17:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/?p=679"},"modified":"2010-03-28T17:10:17","modified_gmt":"2010-03-28T17:10:17","slug":"obscure-job-titles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/21\/obscure-job-titles\/","title":{"rendered":"Obscure job titles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/15\/expecting-the-moon-on-a-stick\/\">posted<\/a> about office jargon and how it can obscure simple meanings.<\/p>\n<p>Going one step further, what if your job title was jargon and obscured what you really do?<\/p>\n<p>A BBC <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/magazine\/8537055.stm\">article<\/a> asked readers to submit their silliest job title, and <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/magazine\/8570244.stm\">here<\/a> are some of the results:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>3. My job title is a waste management and disposal technician. In other words, a bin man.<br \/>\nAlex, Newcastle upon Tyne<\/p>\n<p>5. I had the rather uninspired job title of head of inspiration for a while. I failed to live up to it.<br \/>\nGav, Sydney, Australia <\/p>\n<p>7. Currently on secondment, my job title has changed from the all-purpose customer services administrator to direct debit and membership and professional development stock and credit administrator.<br \/>\nMartin, Bromley, Kent<\/p>\n<p>16. My job title is worldwide marine asset financial analyst. But what it all comes down to is I&#8217;m an accountant.<br \/>\nSteve Scott, Rochester, Kent, UK<\/p>\n<p>24. My job title for about a year was coordinator of interpretive teaching, which entailed taking school groups round a museum. Posh name for a tour guide, basically.<br \/>\nJames Morris, London, UK<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As the writer of this blog, I suppose I could describe myself as an \u2018information management specialist\u2019. It sounds much more important than \u2018blogger\u2019 or \u2018writer\u2019 but doesn\u2019t make it clear what I really do. Having read these titles though, perhaps I should promote myself to \u2018Head of Inspiration\u2019!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I posted about office jargon and how it can obscure simple meanings. Going one step further, what if your job title was jargon and obscured what you really do? A BBC article asked readers to submit their silliest job title, and here are some of the results: 3. My job title is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,109,44],"tags":[3,663,675,51,661],"class_list":["post-679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-invented-languages","category-words","tag-english","tag-jargon","tag-job-titles","tag-language","tag-office-jargon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=679"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":681,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679\/revisions\/681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}