Comment on I'm 99% sure it's not real
BarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.ee 8 months agoIt’s corporate self aggrandizing wank. On par with calling subway workers “sandwich artists”. It’s as insulting to the workers as it is ridiculous
Comment on I'm 99% sure it's not real
BarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.ee 8 months agoIt’s corporate self aggrandizing wank. On par with calling subway workers “sandwich artists”. It’s as insulting to the workers as it is ridiculous
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Then why do the workers choose to identify as such in public?
No one at Subway is going around calling themselves an artist.
BarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.ee 8 months ago
That’s kind of my point. No one at subway is calling themselves artists, it’s insulting and they don’t like it. You answered your own question, the answer is: they don’t.
In instances where they use their given title it’s probably for convenience. I’m an EMT, when I was doing interfacility runs for a private ambulance company (aka not doing the expected work of an EMT) I didn’t call myself an ambulance driver or professional insurance fraud fall guy, I called myself an EMT because it was easier to use in day to day conversation. If someone wanted to talk about it I would explain the nuances but I’m not gonna do that every time someone asks me what I do for work in polite conversation
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 8 months ago
And my point is that support and service desk IT people DO call themselves engineers. The guy above us did so. So if it were insulting, they sure they wouldn’t identify that way.