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Subject:Re: Titles (Donald Feidner) From:Cam Whetstone <camw -at- HOME -dot- COM> Date:Mon, 11 Jan 1999 12:57:58 -0500
Donald Feidner <donald -dot- feidner -at- SAP-AG -dot- DE> wrote:
>
> My company calls us tech writers INFORMATION DEVELOPERS.
>
> Information already exists and we make something out of it -- but you
> can't really DEVELOP it.
>
> I prefer
>
> Information Products Developer
>
> or...
>
> Information Products Engineer
>
> Don Feidner
I prefer a paycheck that doesn't bounce. Who do you thing you are
impressing with a title? Even the old 'Cice President' has
degenerated. I once met a man who said he was a VP with Bankers Trust
in NYC. At the time, I mentally dismissed him as one of a myriad of
gofers at a branch of a large bank. (I later found out he was the #2
man at BT when his face appeared on Time Magazine's copver.)
So a campany can call me what it wants to as long as the pay check is
regular and large enough.
