Poptop has emailled in the following job title which was affixed to an email she received:
Kellie White
Life Enhancer to Winsome Willow,
Manager of Inanna Inc
Crisis Service for
Women & Families in Distress
For those who don’t dabble in the mystic Inanna is the Sumerian “goddess of life and royal power”.
Have you come across better?
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A guy I work with (as a bit of a joke) requested that his official title be “Senior Expert Specialist”. The (US) management approved…so that’s his title now.
Hippies, you can’t like them can you?
I always wanted “thinker in residence” but you need to go to Adelaide for that.
Many years ago in a terrible front-of-house job I had, I made my own business cards to cheer me up. I titled myself, ‘Front Desk Dude’
Who is Winsome Willow?
A friend of a friend is a “Fresh Blood Manager”
(at the blood bank)
Curses. I should have used my friend Google before asking.
When I collected trolleys at Woolworths I was a “mobile assets relocation officer”.
I always thought “solutions architect” was about as naff as you can get.
Gobbo said :
Shouldn’t that be; “what is Winsome Willow?”
Oh. My. God.
I am so tempted to write some ‘Nutter of the Month’ style rant with lost of spelling errors, capitals and written forms of phlegm.
JB, and others, making fun of this person and their organisation (or simply holding them up for ridicule) is like making jokes about any of the organisations that are helping the bushfire victims.
Actually, scratch that, like pointing and giggling at Lifeline, or a rape crisis centre, or Ainslie Village or some of the many good causes that have been championed on this site.
You can make fun of… stuff it, I have bigger fish to fry.
And will now be playing some music from an event publicised here before: http://the-riotact.com/?p=8921 on the wireless this afternoon.
Have fun finding other vulnerable and fragile people to point, stare and giggle at.
Spankers.
Winsome Willow evokes images of toad hall, mole etc…
In realtity she is less entertaining though. I wonder what a life enhancer does? Iron her shirts?
Overheard, you won’t make NOTW, you’ll just make the mod list, possibly permanently.
I suggest you phrase your arguments without abusing other readers, or me, if you want to be heard in future.
Overheard said :
Apart from our gentle mocking of the job title, no-one has in any way ridiculed the person, let alone the organisation, mate.
Life Enhancer? I thought that stuff only came in liquid form.
I am sure Kellie does a great job but I think most “pubes” like to have at least 4 lines of text under their name to make them sound and feel important.
Many moons ago I used to actually work for a living and I used the name ‘doctor of sanitry science’
Another colleague has sent me a verifiable source for a person who works as a “Future Team Leader”
Ambitious or ambiguous?
Pommy bastard said :
“or simply holding them up for ridicule” is the phrase you need to have a think about and then rephrase your statement. Mate.
johnboy said :
Please point where I have “abus[ing]ed other readers, or me”, Johnboy.
Then I’ll go and send you offline some of your greatest hits where you have explicitly abused people. Directly and indirectly.
Overheard said :
Here, you offend certain religious groups;
Overheard said :
Here you are most disparaging of those who make fun of people who the good Lord put on Earth for us to make fun of;
Overheard said :
And then you call them Spankers. Sure, it’s a funny insult, and made me giggle, but how can you not see where you’ve been offensive?
But, he says, flying from radio station to radio station, there ain’t no such thing as bad publicity and if this gives Inanna organisation some exposure and profile, without unduly upsetting anyone, that’s a good result.
It’s the knock-on effect on the people involved and the people that use Inanna’s services or who have put in their time, effort and invested emotionally that concerns me.
And worse still, the people in terrible situations who might want to approach places like Inanna, but due to the sort of stuff above, would/could (note word choice) be scared of being vilified or ridiculed if they are in ‘crisis’ or ‘distress’ or actually badly need their ‘lives enhanced’.
Other fish to fry. I’m trying to help others to help others to enhance the lives of our fellow Australians who have…. well, you can read and probably are reading real news sites that can say more eloquently than I what’s going on to help our fellow humans.
‘Life Enhancer’
I actually quite like it.
O.V.R. Heard
Adding ‘Songwriter’ to his four page business card…
trevar said :
It’s a rock and roll world, trevar. I said ‘My God’, not yours. Didn’t even bring her up for discussion.
You did that all yourself, pal. Don’t put words or intents in other people’s mouths or keyboards, please.
That sort of thing should get you thrown into moderation.
And I did not say anything disparaging about spankers.
I used to know quite a few. It’s not my thing, but whatever floats your boat.
They were harmless (unless someone asked them to) but they were fun to have a drink with. Dress up nights were interesting….
Get to the Fringe tonight and you’ll see something like it. Burlesque night. Yay!
Come and say hello. You’ll find it hard to miss me! (Promoting others’ stuff, nothing here about me.)
Now, who did I call ‘spankers’? Can you tell from one word?
Do you know me that well?
Artsound FM this afternoon from 5.03pm — listen to some of the Inanna Choir (Inannarama), possibly including Kellie White and Winsome Willow. I don’t have the CD or booklet with me here.
Talk about a colossal overreaction to a thread about interesting job titles… I had to read your posts a few times overheard to ensure you weren’t taking the piss.
What does a “Life Enhancer” do, then?
Overheard into moderation.
A warning is not an invitation to argue the toss (as it were).
Good.
I did some artwork for some business cards recently and the job title for one of the staff was “Office Wrangler”. Not way out there, but a tad unusual
I’ve never thought there could be a better job title than “Opposition Whip”, myself.
well… not a canberra job title…but when i worked on the trawlers up north one of the deckhands was always the designated “coffee c***” each night….