Crossposted using Lemmit.

Original post from /r/sysadmin by /u/Sengfeng on 2023-07-07 15:59:15+00:00.

Anyone else ever get frustrated with ineffective management that thinks making up their own titles for jobs does more than actually providing a proper chain of command?

I work for a fairly large bank. Our manager left last October and has yet to be replaced. Just prior to him leaving, we had a CIO start that blew a massive amount of smoke to his ass, and no one questioned how she’d perform by looking at her prior publicly traded company role (bunch of grandiose promises, followed by a $2 million bonus, followed by her meaning to do it all again elsewhere. Here.)

She’s been trying to ‘merge’ two dissimilar sister companies together, despite the fact they are mostly cloud based and their internal users are all programmers. We are a consumer lending bank. All self hosted everything, VDI, etc. but hey, #oneteam.

Today, half of the team got title changes from “Infrastructure engineer” to “Senior Infrastructure Engineer” the other half of us… “Reliability Engineer.” Help desk became “Service Desk Engineer.” So, management decided to wipe their asses with the word ‘engineer’ and relegate half of us into the same pot as Tier 1 helpdesk. Certifications be damned.

Makes you feel loved.