… you’re a cleaning lady. That’s what you do – you clean things. Why try to name it “Hygiene Manager” in the first place? To attract more potential hygiene managers? So you can go to your monthly hygiene manager meetings to discuss the latest trends in marketing & financing of your cleaning tasks? No. The title’s overrated, get over it.
It’s a common thing in IT as well, coming up with the most fancy names for some of the most basic jobs.
Microsoft Evangelist: you work at Microsoft (that’s enough to draw the attention anyway), and you claim to be an evangelist? Someone sent by God Almighty to solve any world-threatening issue? Wow, you have guts to take on that responsability!
Support Engineer: well, sounds better than “That Helpdesk Guy”, doesn’t it?
Software Engineer: you’re a programmer, no matter how good you are, or how much experience you have – at the end of the day, you’re still a programmer. (but if it’s any consolation, so am I ;-) ).
Senior Storage Administrator: you’ve collected enough porn in your life to have quite a collection, spread over multiple hard drives. Seriously, you just claim this title for your own – and you deserve it!
And any job title that has Executive or Chief in it, is the same as the job title without that word – but with longer hours, more stress, less satisfaction and more shit coming your way. That, and the obvious financial benefit. Or am I seeing things too black ‘n white here?
So, as Chief Executive Office, I’m just an officer and the chief executive only says that I perform quadruple?