quote:Actually, it IS possible to have a degree in Applied and Information Technology. Although, when I was going to college, it was just Information Technology.

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my point exactly. if they had this degree, would they be answering phones and doing data entry for $9/hr?

In today's employment climate...yeah.

quote:Is it so "bad" that they would like to be known as such?

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yes! it puts an undue burden on everyone else that has to remember the bullshit title of the week.

{johnmcenroe}"You can NOT be serious!!!!"{/johnmcenroe}

i'm afraid i am serious. "undue burden" was a little over the top, i admit, but i exaggerate to make the point. I gotta figure that most receptionists refer to themselves as receptionists, admin asst's as admin asst's, etc. I guess it's a term they use to group all of these types of support staff under one label.

my main issue is with the renaming of all of the jobs, and the idea of the thread was to hear what everyone would like to be known as. it seems that everyone missed that, and is focused on my dumbass resistance to this one term.

secretaries can call themselves "grand poobahs of clerical science" for all I care. i'm gonna call them secretaries, though.

oh, and i still call black people black. unless they actually moved here from Africa, in which case i will call them "African Americans"

i'm White. not European American.

Now see? That's a thought. I guess by me working in various office environs in an admin capacity for roughly 17 years makes me a bit closer to the subject, so I'm going to be more "fiesty" about it (hell, I've been fiesty for the last 2 days, so maybe you just caught me at a bad time...oh well).

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my main issue is with the renaming of all of the jobs, and the idea of the thread was to hear what everyone would like to be known as. it seems that everyone missed that, and is focused on my dumbass resistance to this one term.

I suppose you take that chance if you are not clear on your intentions, and yeah, we know how you are and yadda yadda, but still...

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secretaries can call themselves "grand poobahs of clerical science" for all I care. i'm gonna call them secretaries, though.

Ok then: if no one gives you shit about it, then keep on keeping on.

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oh, and i still call black people black. unless they actually moved here from Africa, in which case i will call them "African Americans" i'm White. not European American.

Let's...not go there, shall we? ;)

yeah, Ok. but only because i think we've had this argument before on here. or something

You don't even call them secretaries do you Jim..... aren't they just "the girls in the office"? Did you buy them Whitman's samplers?

hey! who's side are you on?!

they call themselves "the girls"

but that's just cuz every other department is all men.

I keep fucking with a guy I work with about this. He's from South Africa. Does that qualify him as a minority?

I thought it was panties.

Oh, wait, that's in Japan. Never mind.

Whitman's makes panties now? Mmmm....chocolate panties.