The menace of the overblown job title
Terrible epithets confuse and infuriate, but they are also on the rise.
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The truth is that for many workers, there has never been anything trivial about titles and, unhappily, there are signs that things are becoming trickier.
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Pilita Clark
Wall Street banks are always getting in hot water, but it’s generally over something more exciting than a job title.
Not so last week, when it emerged that a senior banker claimed he was given a fancy fake title when he joined Morgan Stanley in Frankfurt in 2021, purely to fool European regulators into thinking the bank was obeying Brexit rules.
