On 24 Feb 2009 11:53:43 -0800, mark.zel...@zurichna.com (Mark Zelden) wrote:
>On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 19:27:12 +0000, Ted MacNEIL <eamacn...@yahoo.ca> wrote: > >>>Use of the title 'engineer' may or may not involve legal or regulatory >>>issues. >> >>I know it does in Canada. >>I believe it does in the US. When I was employed by EDS, I was a "Systems Engineer". I believe that term was invented so that it would not be obvious to customers where to fit me into their pre-conceived hierarchy. That kind of obfuscation is useful when working in someone else's shop. On the other hand, a while back (decades?) there were a bunch of "promotions" in the Colorado State Patrol, as they changed their titles to match what other states had for similar positions. When you have a title which means something else to someone you are working with, expectations match that title. Even within a company, a title can pigeon hole an employee. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
