Are ten-year-olds even paperboys these days, or is it all electronic now?
Or are we too scared to let ten-year-olds go out and play on their bikes on their own?
Is that the world we live in now?
I don't know.
I'm just making a weird... comment... trying to be relevant... but really I'm not.
Hi!
Welcome to The Show.
Do YOU think you have a ridiculous job title?
Like the receptionist that's called the Director Of First Impressions.
The only impression I'm getting from that, is that this company needs to spend less time
coming up with silly job titles, and more time actually doing some work.
Ironically, am I making a bad first impression by starting with that?
Or is this video doomed from the start?
And then we've got the website graphic designer, that's actually the Back End Manager.
This is the kind of job that if you mismanage, it can get very messy...
The painter and decorator becomes the Color Distribution Technician.
Now don't get me wrong, I've had a go at painting a wall myself and there is a fair bit of technical
skill that comes into it.
It takes a lot to get that correct distribution of paint.
Anyone that's had an amateur go at painting a wall will realise that afterwards the job
looks like a giant topographical map with giant peaks and troughs - well at least mine did.
Still... silly job title though.
A dishwasher becomes the Underwater Ceramic Technician.
Does this mean that if you have to go and wash a metal pot, you need extra training?
The shop assistant becomes the Brand Ambassador.
We somehow doubt that these ambassadors are on the invite list to the embassy's latest soiree
The paperboy becomes the Media Publications Administrator.
What a great job title to have!
When you're ten.
The museum tour guide becomes the Coordinator Of Interpretive Teaching.
Sorry, but what is there to interpret?
What is so interpretive about it?
Does this mean that the tour guide can start making s*** up if they get bored one afternoon?
Does the Mask Of Tutankhamun instead become the mask of the ancient death eaters in the
dark ages before Hogwarts?
And the Rosetta Stone.
Instead of being the foundation of our translation of ancient languages, becomes Margaret's shopping list.
Circa BC.
The BC stands for Before Costco.
Sewer Maintenance becomes the Drain Surgeon.
We're about to get a Number-Two type rupture!
I need a nut-tightener and 10cc's of Clorox, stat!
The lifeguard becomes the Wet Leisure Assistant.
It's nice to know that while you're drowning, you're doing so at someone else's leisure.
Subway staff become a Sandwich Technician.
At least they can say they're technical staff serving in a sub.
The branding manager becomes the Brand Warrior.
They can take our livelihoods!
But they can never take our free samples!
The window cleaner becomes the Transparent-Wall Maintenance Engineer.
We can totally see through this job description.
The planner becomes the Initiative Officer.
The person who came up with this job title probably would have come up with a better
idea, but just didn't have the drive to finish it.
A navy deck scrubber, becomes a Textile Masseur.
Ugh!
Yeah!
That's it!
Nice and deep in the aft quarters!
A bartender becomes a Beverage Dissemination Officer.
There's something a little bit off-putting about the word: Dissemination.
When was the last time you went to the bar and said:
"Hey, barman!
Disseminate to me next!"
We have a recruitment consultant called a Talent Delivery Specialist.
They're really putting the special into specialist.
The phrasing of "delivery" also seems dubious, inviting the mental imagery that talent can
be neatly packaged up and delivered for next-day delivery on Amazon Prime.
Click next-day for it to be extra fresh!
Actually can you imagine them delivering that one by drone in one hour?
Talent-drone delivery drop in your back-yard!
The marketing brand manager becomes the brand evangelist.
And I say!
To the evil brand that has invaded this store!
I cast thee out!
A bouncer becomes the Eviction Technician.
Here's how technical it really needs to be:
Me, big.
You, small.
You leave now.
Okay.
A counsellor becomes a Problem Wrangler.
Although the poor counsellor will be wrangling with that job title for so long it will be
a while before they can actually help anyone else.
Office cleaner becomes a Washroom Operative.
This is giving the impression that office cleaners are in fact: spies, or agents, or
double agents, even!
Maybe they're activated using a combination of the right trigger words.
Poor choices of trigger words would be:
Windex
Stain Removal and...
You Missed A Spot
A call center manager becomes: Chief Chatter.
This job title is all-talk.
A ticket collector becomes a revenue protection officer.
Actually, you know what?
This one is kind of accurate, since all they're really doing is protecting their boss's bottom line.
A website manager becomes a: DIGITAL OVERLORD!
Well, Ming The Merciless had to start somewhere.
A school dinner lady becomes an Education Center Nourishment Consultant.
Education Center Nourishment Consultant.
By the time I've said all those words, my food's gone cold.
How many "consultants" did it take to come up with that useless piece of alphabet-soup?
And finally, a magazine shelf-stacker becomes a Brochure Coordinator.
Just put Penthouse and Playboy on the bottom shelf, and then blame management for a proper
lack of coordination.
L-eee-sure, le-sure?
Le-shaa Le-shurr
Lee-shurr Which one is it?
Le-shur, lee-shur, I don't know?
You'd think one of them is English, and one of them is American, but I actually don't
know.
They can take our livelihoods, but they can never take our free samples!
Samples!
Ugh - I cant.
I can't even do a Scottish 'free samples'.
Ah - you get the gist.
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