Comments on: Who cares about your job title – tell me what you DO! http://positivesharing.com/2007/12/who-cares-about-your-job-title-tell-me-what-you-do/ Make Yourself and Your Business Happy At Work Fri, 10 Feb 2012 10:56:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Bob http://positivesharing.com/2007/12/who-cares-about-your-job-title-tell-me-what-you-do/#comment-255647 Bob Thu, 14 Apr 2011 17:45:58 +0000 http://positivesharing.com/2007/12/who-cares-about-your-job-title-tell-me-what-you-do/#comment-255647 Be proud of what you do. Anyone with a job is contributing in one way or another. One thing I cannot stand is when people alter their job to make it sound more professional, or less blue collar. It's really sad that society has placed so much emphasis on what someone does for a living, that we now feel ashamed to speak about our jobs. I think that explains why we have a surplus of college and trade school graduates. Only problem is that now there aren't enough jobs. So now the people who flooded the schools to avoid being labeled mediocre are serving drinks. Be proud of what you do. Anyone with a job is contributing in one way or another.

One thing I cannot stand is when people alter their job to make it sound more professional, or less blue collar. It’s really sad that society has placed so much emphasis on what someone does for a living, that we now feel ashamed to speak about our jobs.

I think that explains why we have a surplus of college and trade school graduates. Only problem is that now there aren’t enough jobs. So now the people who flooded the schools to avoid being labeled mediocre are serving drinks.

]]> By: Verlyn http://positivesharing.com/2007/12/who-cares-about-your-job-title-tell-me-what-you-do/#comment-248076 Verlyn Fri, 08 Oct 2010 22:25:20 +0000 http://positivesharing.com/2007/12/who-cares-about-your-job-title-tell-me-what-you-do/#comment-248076 Just coming back into the workforce- have been a stay at home mom for last 9 years. School teacher prior to that, and customer service prior to that. I enjoy writing, reading and encouraging others. I am very good at editing papers, and detail oriented. I am an excellent multi-tasker and I have initiative and follow through to complete the job with excellence. When applying for a job and they ask for my current job title, I am at a loss... the thought of listing the word "homemaker" makes me shudder....I am so much more than someone who cleans and makes a home inviting. I do a million things in a day including but not limited to: family alarm clock, meal planner and preparer, shopper, pet caregiver, family defender, nurse, behavior modification supervisor, author and role playing partner, personal tutor and project manager, home organizer, hygiene control and cleanliness supervisor, financial planner, budgeting specialist, activities coordinator, chauffeur,event planner, team cheerleader, baker, motivational speaker, disciplinarian, nutritionist, spiritual guide, home maintenance assistant, lawn beautification, decorator, laundry mistress, and so on and so on....HOW DO YOU Put that on a job application? Just coming back into the workforce- have been a stay at home mom for last 9 years. School teacher prior to that, and customer service prior to that. I enjoy writing, reading and encouraging others. I am very good at editing papers, and detail oriented. I am an excellent multi-tasker and I have initiative and follow through to complete the job with excellence. When applying for a job and they ask for my current job title, I am at a loss… the thought of listing the word “homemaker” makes me shudder….I am so much more than someone who cleans and makes a home inviting. I do a million things in a day including but not limited to: family alarm clock, meal planner and preparer, shopper, pet caregiver, family defender, nurse, behavior modification supervisor, author and role playing partner, personal tutor and project manager, home organizer, hygiene control and cleanliness supervisor, financial planner, budgeting specialist, activities coordinator, chauffeur,event planner, team cheerleader, baker, motivational speaker, disciplinarian, nutritionist, spiritual guide, home maintenance assistant, lawn beautification, decorator, laundry mistress, and so on and so on….HOW DO YOU Put that on a job application?

]]> By: Guilla http://positivesharing.com/2007/12/who-cares-about-your-job-title-tell-me-what-you-do/#comment-248027 Guilla Fri, 01 Oct 2010 21:37:11 +0000 http://positivesharing.com/2007/12/who-cares-about-your-job-title-tell-me-what-you-do/#comment-248027 I have a new job title. It was inspired by an article I read about a Mom who is also an entrepreneur so she calls herself a MUMpreneur... which I think is quite cool. But since I am both, a full time mom and a translator I decided to call myself: MUMslator I might even make my own business cards ;-) I love it! :) I have a new job title.
It was inspired by an article I read about a Mom who is also an entrepreneur so she calls herself a MUMpreneur… which I think is quite cool.
But since I am both, a full time mom and a translator I decided to call myself:

MUMslator

I might even make my own business cards ;-)
I love it! :)

]]> By: Floris Koot http://positivesharing.com/2007/12/who-cares-about-your-job-title-tell-me-what-you-do/#comment-247896 Floris Koot Thu, 16 Sep 2010 09:11:21 +0000 http://positivesharing.com/2007/12/who-cares-about-your-job-title-tell-me-what-you-do/#comment-247896 One of the things I do (no jobtitle) is coming up with new job titles. Three things, amongst others, very important for a good jobtitle: some immediate understanding, igniting curiosity for further conversation, and it inspires you to do whatever you already wanted to do, for a living. I coach people finding theirs or invent new ones the world might need. Follow #newjobtitles on twitter and or start inventing your own. One of the things I do (no jobtitle) is coming up with new job titles. Three things, amongst others, very important for a good jobtitle: some immediate understanding, igniting curiosity for further conversation, and it inspires you to do whatever you already wanted to do, for a living.
I coach people finding theirs or invent new ones the world might need. Follow #newjobtitles on twitter and or start inventing your own.

]]> By: virginia chaney http://positivesharing.com/2007/12/who-cares-about-your-job-title-tell-me-what-you-do/#comment-246613 virginia chaney Fri, 07 May 2010 18:35:13 +0000 http://positivesharing.com/2007/12/who-cares-about-your-job-title-tell-me-what-you-do/#comment-246613 i was looking under the title of how to become the sucessful person that i wanted to be, and it ended up landing on your website. there are a whole lot of job titles out there, but yet not enough to choose from. besides, where are the easy jobs? i do not want a very hard, hard, job to do, i want an easy job. why doesn't society make at least some things easy for us? people do not offer jobs anymore where they are willing to sit there and train you, and allow you to learn at a pace. they just tell you if you are not experienced, we are not hiring you. this becomes UNFAIR, BECAUSE NO ONE WANTS TO BE OTHERSIDED ABOUT THE MATTER. THIS IS MY CRY TO YOU. SPREAD THE WORD i was looking under the title of how to become the sucessful person that i wanted to be, and it ended up landing on your website. there are a whole lot of job titles out there, but yet not enough to choose from. besides, where are the easy jobs? i do not want a very hard, hard, job to do, i want an easy job. why doesn’t society make at least some things easy for us? people do not offer jobs anymore where they are willing to sit there and train you, and allow you to learn at a pace. they just tell you if you are not experienced, we are not hiring you. this becomes UNFAIR, BECAUSE NO ONE WANTS TO BE OTHERSIDED ABOUT THE MATTER. THIS IS MY CRY TO YOU. SPREAD THE WORD

]]> By: Grace http://positivesharing.com/2007/12/who-cares-about-your-job-title-tell-me-what-you-do/#comment-241276 Grace Tue, 03 Mar 2009 19:41:05 +0000 http://positivesharing.com/2007/12/who-cares-about-your-job-title-tell-me-what-you-do/#comment-241276 When it comes to the pros and cons of working at Teleperformance USA in Abilene, Texas; it becomes a three ring circus with only two visible acts and one invisible. I call it the good, bad and the ugly. There's the professional ACT and the fun playful ACT and there is the "I am in control and can change the rules as I see fit ACT." I have yet to physically see an EMPLOYEE HANDBOOK. Management will say one thing to your face, ex. (yellow and blue) but then turn around and send a supervisor to tell you as he is writing you up because of that yellow and blue that; YOU misunderstood, they meant (green). They tell you, you can not ask to change your schedule until you have worked there for at least 6 months, but they are allowed to make dark alley deals towards you if they know you are needing a schedule change for outside personal reasons and if you put in for this change yourself -it will be denied because it is not available but they we will give you kind of what you want "IF" you do this or that, then those days are available. Now if you say no to this deal because of the principle matter of this con job, you are now on the list, the one that says, ok this schedule change you want is now a known ISSUE, if you call in sick for this particular day in the future, it may lead to more then a write up, you may be automatically terminated. Now I am so paranoid that something will happen, sickness, or car wreck on this day because I was also told a doctor's excuse will not be enough because again-- it is a known issue. If I put in for a request to have this day off in the future (let's say for a wedding or family reunion a few months down the road) and it is denied and I still miss that day, it is an automatic termination; when others (not on the list) would normally just get a write up. They tell you from day one, "You pay yourself here" in regards to clocking out for longer then you should for lunch or to go to the bathroom, and if all those few minutes add up to enough, you won't make your differential. OK, I can see that, but then they turn around and tell you, you HAVE to make this time up, so exactly how are you in control of "PAYING YOURSELF"??? The saddest part of all this is I really like my job, I mean the part of it that is work, the sitting there on the phone with someone who has called in and probably been on hold for up to an hour and stuck with it because they had an issue and need my help to resolve it if at all possible. And it is the greatest feeling to hear the response of "Oh thank you, thank you, thank you for fixing that. Without counting transfers to other departments, I do resolve over 90% of my shifts real trouble shooting issues, I score 100% on feed backs from the surveys, My monitor scores average over 90%. Where did I go wrong? I can't believe that asking for a small schedule change would cause such an attitude that treats me like "a bastard child at a family reunion." At one time during all this I did throw my hands up and say "Oh well, I can't fight them and winner take all" I no more felt this and walked out for some air and still upset and defeated feeling, I vented this out to a co-worker when another around the corner over heard my story and came around and said, threaten to quit, I did, she explained her story of how she wanted to change her schedule (just because)-- not for elder sick family reason's like me, she just wanted too and they told her the same part of "how it was not available" She then said ok, then I quit and started walking off and the manager quickly said, "OH wait, wait, wait, here it is, it is available after all. This co worker has only been there for a little over a month. There really is no job security when you are being threatened of termination and it causes the environment around you to feel depressing and gloomy. I can't just quit, I need the money even more now that I didn't get that particular day off, I had to hire someone to do my family responsibility, which I am paying $12 a hour for a 12 hour shift and I make $9 a hour for a 8 hour shift that day. That’s $288.00 every 2 week paycheck- to be honest I am now looking for a second (part-time) job so I can pay that and I had to drop my insurance benefits. Like I said before, winner takes it all and sometimes more. You really have to be carefully of the old “watch what my one hand is doing, so you don’t see what the other one is doing. Call Center Agent When it comes to the pros and cons of working at Teleperformance USA in Abilene, Texas; it becomes a three ring circus with only two visible acts and one invisible. I call it the good, bad and the ugly. There’s the professional ACT and the fun playful ACT and there is the “I am in control and can change the rules as I see fit ACT.” I have yet to physically see an EMPLOYEE HANDBOOK. Management will say one thing to your face, ex. (yellow and blue) but then turn around and send a supervisor to tell you as he is writing you up because of that yellow and blue that; YOU misunderstood, they meant (green). They tell you, you can not ask to change your schedule until you have worked there for at least 6 months, but they are allowed to make dark alley deals towards you if they know you are needing a schedule change for outside personal reasons and if you put in for this change yourself -it will be denied because it is not available but they we will give you kind of what you want “IF” you do this or that, then those days are available.
Now if you say no to this deal because of the principle matter of this con job, you are now on the list, the one that says, ok this schedule change you want is now a known ISSUE, if you call in sick for this particular day in the future, it may lead to more then a write up, you may be automatically terminated. Now I am so paranoid that something will happen, sickness, or car wreck on this day because I was also told a doctor’s excuse will not be enough because again– it is a known issue. If I put in for a request to have this day off in the future (let’s say for a wedding or family reunion a few months down the road) and it is denied and I still miss that day, it is an automatic termination; when others (not on the list) would normally just get a write up.
They tell you from day one, “You pay yourself here” in regards to clocking out for longer then you should for lunch or to go to the bathroom, and if all those few minutes add up to enough, you won’t make your differential. OK, I can see that, but then they turn around and tell you, you HAVE to make this time up, so exactly how are you in control of “PAYING YOURSELF”??? The saddest part of all this is I really like my job, I mean the part of it that is work, the sitting there on the phone with someone who has called in and probably been on hold for up to an hour and stuck with it because they had an issue and need my help to resolve it if at all possible. And it is the greatest feeling to hear the response of “Oh thank you, thank you, thank you for fixing that. Without counting transfers to other departments, I do resolve over 90% of my shifts real trouble shooting issues, I score 100% on feed backs from the surveys, My monitor scores average over 90%. Where did I go wrong? I can’t believe that asking for a small schedule change would cause such an attitude that treats me like “a bastard child at a family reunion.” At one time during all this I did throw my hands up and say “Oh well, I can’t fight them and winner take all” I no more felt this and walked out for some air and still upset and defeated feeling, I vented this out to a co-worker when another around the corner over heard my story and came around and said, threaten to quit, I did, she explained her story of how she wanted to change her schedule (just because)– not for elder sick family reason’s like me, she just wanted too and they told her the same part of “how it was not available” She then said ok, then I quit and started walking off and the manager quickly said, “OH wait, wait, wait, here it is, it is available after all. This co worker has only been there for a little over a month.
There really is no job security when you are being threatened of termination and it causes the environment around you to feel depressing and gloomy. I can’t just quit, I need the money even more now that I didn’t get that particular day off, I had to hire someone to do my family responsibility, which I am paying $12 a hour for a 12 hour shift and I make $9 a hour for a 8 hour shift that day. That’s $288.00 every 2 week paycheck- to be honest I am now looking for a second (part-time) job so I can pay that and I had to drop my insurance benefits. Like I said before, winner takes it all and sometimes more. You really have to be carefully of the old “watch what my one hand is doing, so you don’t see what the other one is doing.
Call Center Agent

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]]> By: DIANNE http://positivesharing.com/2007/12/who-cares-about-your-job-title-tell-me-what-you-do/#comment-236319 DIANNE Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:43:19 +0000 http://positivesharing.com/2007/12/who-cares-about-your-job-title-tell-me-what-you-do/#comment-236319 THIS OLD GUY I KNOW, RETIRED, LOVES TO TELL ME "I AM AN ENGINEER" OR "I WAS AN ENGINEER"... WHO CARES AND I AM NOT IMPRESSED BUT I HAVE TO BE COURTEOUS. YOUR COMMENTS, THANKS. THIS OLD GUY I KNOW, RETIRED, LOVES TO TELL ME “I AM AN ENGINEER” OR “I WAS AN ENGINEER”… WHO CARES AND I AM NOT IMPRESSED BUT I HAVE TO BE COURTEOUS. YOUR COMMENTS, THANKS.

]]> By: silvia http://positivesharing.com/2007/12/who-cares-about-your-job-title-tell-me-what-you-do/#comment-236315 silvia Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:34:47 +0000 http://positivesharing.com/2007/12/who-cares-about-your-job-title-tell-me-what-you-do/#comment-236315 I'm the director of provider contracting in a managed care company. However, I think of myself as a director of fungibles. That seems so much more appropriate. Honestly, corporate america is absolutely tedious, boring and mainly unecessary. We may as well be communists, we just call it something else...the department of redundancy department. I’m the director of provider contracting in a managed care company. However, I think of myself as a director of fungibles. That seems so much more appropriate. Honestly, corporate america is absolutely tedious, boring and mainly unecessary. We may as well be communists, we just call it something else…the department of redundancy department.

]]> By: Killing of job titles: Let’s get practical! http://positivesharing.com/2007/12/who-cares-about-your-job-title-tell-me-what-you-do/#comment-232572 Killing of job titles: Let’s get practical! Wed, 05 Mar 2008 10:15:56 +0000 http://positivesharing.com/2007/12/who-cares-about-your-job-title-tell-me-what-you-do/#comment-232572 [...] a previous post I argued for doing away with job titles. They’re rarely relevant, they say very little about what you do and they can lead to [...] [...] a previous post I argued for doing away with job titles. They’re rarely relevant, they say very little about what you do and they can lead to [...]

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