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Bazile | 12:47 Mon 21st Nov 2016 | ChatterBank

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A colleague of mine has just shown me the title of an employee .

'Information Architect'

What other weird and wonderful titles have you come across ?

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bigbanana

Many years ago, my job entailed often phoning an office-based chap at BBC Engineering who had the job title "Engineering Information External Inquiries Officer".

He took great delight to announce when answering the phone: "EIEIO".

I understand that some people would put the phone down in disgust thinking they had got through to a nutter!

Lunol

'Information Architect'

"Information architecture (IA) is the structural design of shared information environments; the art and science of organizing and labelling websites, intranets, online communities and software to support usability and findability; and an emerging community of practice focused on bringing principles of design and architecture to the digital landscape.[1] Typically, it involves a model or concept of information that is used and applied to activities which require explicit details of complex information systems. These activities include library systems and database development.

Information architecture is considered to have been founded by Richard Saul Wurman.[2] Today there is a growing network of active IA specialists who constitute the Information Architecture Institute.[3]"

^From wiki which maybe not entirely correct as can be edittby anyone.

Is this what your colleague does Bazile?

mallyh

im a domestic engineer .

Togo

//Typically, it involves a model or concept of information that is used and applied to activities which require explicit details of complex information systems. These activities include library systems and database development. //

That'll be a posh description for a filing clerk then. :))

Bazile

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//Is this what your colleague does Bazile?//

No idea Lunol

Jackdaw33

LOL @ mally. Housewife!

Lunol

"//Is this what your colleague does Bazile?//

No idea Lunol"

Maybe he's an after office cleaner and feather dusts the computer and his employer has given him this "Highly acclaimed title" Bar the high wage just to make him feel good.

sunny-dave

Not strictly a job title - but when I worked for a large public utility I was part of the team that moved our data from 'flat' files to a more modern database system.

My (rather unworldly) boss said in a meeting "We need to have a snappy name for this system" ...

... I replied (to widespread smirking) "Well the old system was MasterFile, so why not call this MasterBase?"

To my horror, he just nodded and said "Great, that's settled then"

So, from that point on, we were The Masterbase Team ...

Lunol

There's a site or sites that has some really funny "Posh" job titles and what they really do somewhere on the web,but am pushed for time and need to go out so will post it later unless someone searches and posts it themselves.