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--I got way too into this. Sorry.-- My title (Analyst) is pretty unambiguous and generally ubiquitous among banks worldwide: the position at which poo poo naturally comes to rest after a long roll downhill. It's actually remarkable everyone agrees on that because every shop has their own take on the rest of the hierarchy Since chain-of-command is kind of a big deal, titles are shown pretty much anywhere you can find someone's name. Even my assistant goes by "Expense Reporting Expert," which may be a misnomer given her astonishingly consistent inability to accurately report my expenses. Not so for analysts; we haven't had an official title since at least the Crisis. We're the only guys in even remotely client-facing positions who get business cards without titles. The space for title in the intranet Phonebook is just blank--pulls directly from the employee database, which feeds the utilities we use to populate contact lists, presentations, etc. We do control our e-mail signatures, in which the defiant insertion of our titles has remained a topic of debate (50/50, I don't). I realized 6 months or so in that it wasn't a case of "tech people / HR haven't gotten around to it yet." It's another subtle reminder that until you hit Associate, nobody gives a poo poo who you are, what you think or which parent's birthday dinner you're missing to work late. It's not like we've got super lame titles--"Communications Hardware Support II" and so on--but for whatever reason we've been deemed unworthy, artificially separated from the rest of the corporate finance hierarchy. It's the job telling us that no matter how many all-nighters or long weekends you spend at your desk, without an MBA you are a non-entity. --And yeah, that's my rant on titles.--
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