Too Many Managers: The Strategic Use of Titles to Avoid Overtime Payments

Re:Too Many Managers: The Strategic Use of Titles to Avoid O... by nsxwolf on Friday February 03, 2023 @05:49PM (#34648908)

You do get to call yourself that, though. This is a bit like saying "irregardless is not a word" when it's in the dictionary now. Calling yourself a "programmer" will be detrimental to your career, so why do it?

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Re:Too Many Managers: The Strategic Use of Titles to Avoid O... by Alupis on Friday February 03, 2023 @06:32PM (#34649368)

> Calling yourself a "programmer" will be detrimental to your career,

Ah, yes. There is the crux of the issue, isn't it?

People called themselves Engineers to advance their careers artificially (sounds really nice and impressive, etc).

Now, everyone is an Engineer, making the Engineer word have significantly less meaning. Today, a Software Engineer is largely a Software Developer of 10 years ago.

Just like economic inflation - title inflation devalues titles, which causes people to inflate their own titles further to stand out once again - which becomes a negative feedback loop.

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Re:Too Many Managers: The Strategic Use of Titles to Avoid O... by nonethewiser on Friday February 03, 2023 @09:50PM (#34650886)

People call themselves Engineers because thats their title. Do you expect such people to make up a different one?

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Re:Too Many Managers: The Strategic Use of Titles to Avoid O... by dgb23 on Friday February 03, 2023 @06:43PM (#34649495)

Ironically some of the most influential and recognized names have been calling themselves programmers rather than engineers or computer scientists.

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Re:Too Many Managers: The Strategic Use of Titles to Avoid O... by chrismcb on Friday February 03, 2023 @11:57PM (#34651683)

No it wouldn't be. It would only be detrimental to your career if you only applied to "programmer"jobs

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