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From: elvy@hscfvax.UUCP (750103@Marc Elvy)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: A Solution to the Title Search
Message-ID: <170@hscfvax.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 10-Feb-86 23:17:32 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb 10 23:17:32 1986
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I wonder if this discussion is in the right place...  Regardless, the
last company for whom I sought and obtained a job welcomed me to the
corporation on Day One by assigning me (as my first task, to be completed
by the end of my first week on the job) the task of inventing a
job title that (a) made me happy, (b) more-or-less described
my relation to the company and the work I would be doing, and (c)
didn't offend anybody else in the company.

We were all happy, but it takes a very relaxed corporate administration.
I once mathematically deduced that IBM would require only 1/3 the
employees it now employs if all titles were reduced to either "foreman"
or "grunt" (the latter being the title I held on my FIRST job).

Marc


Oh, yes, the inauspicious, yet dignified, title I adopted?  Hacker, 1st Class