How do I get removed from the email list? From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Derek Balling Sent: Friday, May 09, 2014 7:50 AM To: David Parter Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [lopsa-discuss] New Job Title?
On May 9, 2014, at 10:31 AM, David Parter <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Titles can be very important when they are wrong or misleading. Management -- at a layer far removed from the day-to-day work -- will ask HR for information on the staff. Management will use the titles as reported by HR to make plans and decisions. Assume, for example, all the sysadmins have the same "wrong" title or set of titles ("computer operator" in this case, which is a mainframe type title). Management gets a report that says that the company has a bunch of "computer operators," but they know that they got rid of the mainframe years ago, and since then they have made a big effort at automation (what you are in fact doing). So they make plans to eliminate the operator positions, as part of the cost savings that they expect from the IT Operations Automation project.... +1000 We had this situation at Peak, where everyone had been given a title of "Systems Engineer", when the vast majority of their work was "Customer Service System Administration". Very few of them were actually "engineering" much of anything. It led to: - Salary Comp. confusion ("why am I only making XXXX? when a syseng should make YYYYY?") - Job Description confusion (If your "SysEng"s are customer service, then what title do you give to the people who are ACTUALLY engineering stuff? Make it worse by giving them "architect" type titles? There was an ego-painful transition where we simply s/Engineer/Administrator/ across the board[1], but it was definitely the Right Thing to do. D [1] And I'll "own" that we/management really mishandled that transition and some folks' feelings were hurt.
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