{"id":20752,"date":"2026-05-27T17:20:49","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T01:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/?p=20752"},"modified":"2026-05-27T17:23:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T01:23:11","slug":"the-odd-evolution-of-inflated-job-titles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2026\/05\/27\/the-odd-evolution-of-inflated-job-titles\/","title":{"rendered":"The odd evolution of inflated job titles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Reporter -> Journalist<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Teacher -> Educator<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sales Rep -> Account Executive<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Personnel -> Human Resources -> Human Resources Officer, Chief Talent Officer, Chief People Officer<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Recruiter -> Talent acquisition<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Customer Service Rep -> Support Engineer<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Computer programmer -> Software Engineer<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>PC Tech-> Network administrator<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Janitor or Custodian -> Sanitation or Waste Removal engineer<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Copywriter -> Narrative architect<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Marketing Manager -> Web (or related) Evangelist<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Social Media Manager -> Social media rockstar<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Office Manager -> Chief of Staff<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>mid-Sales Manager -> Chief Revenue Officer<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Blogger -> Content writer -> Chief Storyteller<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;Anything&#8221; -> <em>Lead <\/em>or <em>principle <\/em>&#8220;anything&#8221;, similarly &#8220;Senior&#8221; as &#8220;Senior reporter&#8221;.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Inflated titles can be seen as a job perk. In some cases, the change may reflect changes in the job&#8217;s work approach and output, or training. While some are random virtue signaling that we are hip -> Chief Happiness Officer<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inflation even hits job titles!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20752"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20757,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20752\/revisions\/20757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}