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Amusing Job Titles for Business Cards?
pastie asks: "I need to get some business cards printed, and want to put something more interesting/fitting as my role than just `developer' or `programmer'. So, what have the readers of Ask Slashdot seen/put on business cards which they thought was good/bad/cheesy?" We did these with our Slashdot business cards, and I saw several others with interesting titles at both LWCE's last year. Anyone care to share some interesting job titles they've seen on business cards?
I worked at a company where we all picked our own job titles. One guy who was as fat and out of shape as me picked "Lord of the Dance". I was "Or An Amazingly Lifelike Simulation".
A cynical friend of mine said that companies do this to look cool and with-it, but they also do it to throw off head hunters and make it harder for people to be poached by other companies.
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That really should be "Grand and Exalted Poobah", by the way.
I see even classic Slashdot is now pretty much unusable on dial up anymore.
I always admired Marty Friedman for his cards
After that, I've gotten some pretty interesting titles (many pretty serious), but I still think the best one for a SysAdmin person is this:
"Social Engineer"
It so aptly describes what really goes on for most SysAdmins trying to do their job...
(And of course, for those privileged enough to share my first name, "Member of the Erik Conspiracy" is required....)
-Erik
There are always four sides to every story: your side, their side, the truth, and what really happened.
When they came in, they actually had that title. Still got 'em. My program manager, though, told me never to give them to any customers. :(
I'm a consultant that handles Internet related problems for my clients. Sometimes what I do is technical but sometimes what I do is beuracratic. For instance customers often ask me to register domain names for them, or obtain SSL certificates, or handle licensing agreements all of which require the signing authority of an officer of the company. I noticed a lot of other consultants will do the job "half-way" and leave all the signing for someone in the company who hasn't got a clue as to what their signing. This is how domain bills don't get paid for... an officer of the company authorized the purchase but hasn't got a clue what he just bought and when asked two months later by the billing department, "did you authorized $39 for "netsol 1 year" they 'nope.'
As a result I started asking my clients to make me a special agent with signing authority on behalf of an officer of the company for technical matters. They love the idea and I LOVE the title.
Special Agent Winterstorm, at your service.
I once had a friend who worked for little company in Herndon VA, now defunct (the company was InterCon, and made some nice networking products for the Mac). My friend's business card gave his title simply as 'Paladin'.
Our old testing guru was "Dark Lord of Testing." At his new job it's "Dark Lord of Wireless Gateway Design."
Our head of development has a sign on his door: "Head Geek."
Software Engineer just didn't do it for me.
aka...
David Millians
Super Genius
i keep threatening to get personal business cards made up with this, but haven't yet.
stored on computers from birth to the grave
How about "Programmer Extradordinaire of Networks" - PEON for short?
Worldcom - Generation Duh!
Reason is the Path to God - Anon
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That's from the movie House II wherein John Ratzenberger (a.k.a. Cliff Clavin from Cheers) plays an electrician called out to help with the house.
Great silly movie, well worth renting.
As a title, it works well with anything:
Web Monkey/Adventurer
Pricipal Engineer/Adventurer
etc.
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I held a debugging job, and picked "Cybernetic Entomologist".
Mike
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"Next time, don't use an acronym on my business cards. Use my full title - Director Of Product Enhancements." "I didn't realize that was your title."
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A friend of mine and I were thinking about incorporating and going into consulting, when be both realized that we'd need somebody to do that business shit. I could do the networking and OS shit, and me buddy could do the hardcore programming shit, but neither one of us would be good at accounting, negotiation, you know, that business shit. Therefore, we fully intend, if we ever do incorporate, to hire somebody with the title "Director of That Business Shit."
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Back in college, a guy I was chatting with at a keg party handed me a business card that said:
Smile if you want to sleep with me.
I burst out laughing.
I'm not going to tell you if it worked as a pick-up or not, but it beats "don't I know you from somewhere", or (as is more common for geeks) nothing at all.
I can spell. I just can't type.
I'll bet you could pick up some great PHB-friendly words here. Maybe Proactive Leverager of Global Synergy?
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Try for words like consultant, independant, or freelance. For instance, I now work as a Freelance Scenic and Lighting Designer and as an Independant Laser Graphics Artist.
Or, go the route of a former professor, whose cards had a name, number, and "witty, vivacious, fun-loving, and talented"
-"All Being, Master of Time, Space, and Dimension" -"Emperor, Western Hemisphere" -"Senior Zamboni Driver" (of course there isn't a rink for 20 miles) My cube neighbor is the "Methane Production Foreman"
Mommy. What's a karma whore?
I saw a guy with a business card that said "Gentleman Extrodanaire"... while I doubt that he was a real "man whore", I imagine that it's a really great way to start a conversation with a chick...
Screw "programmer"... go the pimp route =)
My boss's door placard says "Security Orangutan"
Of course it does describe him well...
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Notionologist?
Hint: it's the acronym, stupid! :-)
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Systems Programmer/Anal yst
J Random Hacker
Systems Programmer/Anal yst
J Random Hacker
Systems Programmer/Anal yst
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for a long time intel had a "minister of algorithms".
i recently saw "Web Master", but that wasn't a joke, the boss just thought it was supposed to have a space. I also saw "Porn King" recently.
Some of the funniest ones i have seen were at trade shows things like "code monkey" and "marketing weasle".
some of the ones i have used include "master of all time & space", "Social Engineer" and "Big Cheese". The social engineer one was the funest to have, once after convincing a marketoid at a booth to give me a t-shirt, he asked me what i social engineer was, i said "I convince people like you to give me things like this" and held up the shirt.
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How about "$NAME, Smart Cookie"?
I'm sure there are quite a few people for whom that phrase would be both more concise and more accurate than the alternatives.
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Code Crafter
Code Poet
Electron Magician
Comput-o-Rooter
Computer Psychiatrist (or Psychologist, Dr, etc)
Bug Tamer
Totally Offtopic: While looking for some creative ones on the web (and coming up emtpy-handed), I found this list of funny names two guys got the folks at the airport to page. Funny stuff.
Portable versions of Firefox, GIMP, LibreOffice, etc
If it's clever and geeky you want, it's probably already been put on a t-shirt by Copyleft or ThinkGeek.
Also, the title of the head of the PRC space program roughly translates as "Director of Fire Arrows".
*whup* "Get along, little electrons. Heeyah!"
I am:
Blowfish Chef
we also got a:
Domesticated Bitmonkey
Master of space and time
Secret Squirrel
just some thoughts.
people make such a big deal about titles, which seems trivial until you start applying for subsequent jobs.
I've had a couple different ones - Galactic Overlord, Alpha Primate, and so on - but the one that most people that I've worked for recenly know me for (and the one that I've used at the last three or so jobs) is "Gun-Toting Psycho". (Inspired in part by a Red Meat comic strip.)
Well, time goes by, and things happen, and eventually my title and I got a mention in a front-page New York Times story about this very subject. (Can't find a URL right now, but it was about six or seven months ago.) Anyway, the higher-up types at The Company didn't take too kindly to me talking to the press without official sanction, and people were not happy all around.
I wound up leaving that job shortly thereafter, but I've still got my Gun-Toting Psycho name plate, and a whole stack of business cards...
O2 / CO2 Conversion Specialist.
Of course, depending on just how productive your job is, this may or may not be the right title for you...
Life is far too important to be taken seriously.
In '93 I went to Germany and flew Northwest/KLM. I figured that, given that it was a very long flight, it'd be worth my time to sign up for a Frequent Flyer program. The woman behind the desk was helpful, but she was so tired I thought she was going to fall asleep on me.
:)
So I decided to liven things up some, with dialogue I hoped would get a laugh out of her.
"Name?"
Robert Hansen, thanks.
"Middle initial?"
J.
"Company?"
The Society of Evil Geniuses Working Together for a Better Tomorrow.
"... I'm sorry, sir. That won't fit."
Okay. "Society of Evil Geniuses" will work.
"Thank you, sir. Job title?"
God-Emperor of the Infinite Multiverse. God-Emperor will do, if it won't fit otherwise...
"It won't. Please wait a minute while we get you entered into our system... there. Have a nice flight, God-Emper..."
At that moment, about five seconds after she entered me into the database, she realized what happened. She started laughing so hard she collapsed on the floor.
Today, I still get mail from Northwest/KLM addressed to "God-Emperor Robert Hansen, Society of Evil Geniuses".
My postman must think I'm some kind of weirdo.