Non-motoring > Decommissioning Engineers? Miscellaneous
Thread Author: Falkirk Bairn Replies: 19
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 Wed 21 Nov 12 09:11 
 Decommissioning Engineers? - Falkirk Bairn
Travelled along a road for the first time in ages.............site that used to be occupied by a demolition company proudly emblazoned with "Decommissioning Engineers" They still knock buildings down!

That got me thinking.............if you go into a mobile phone shop they do not have sales assistants, they have mobile phone consultants.

One of my sons is a 1st class Hons & is a Chartered Engineer who hires himself out as a consultant. The surgeon who operated on me for 4 hours was a consultant! Different league from a phone shop.

When i started work there were clerks and clerkesses and now they are all Admin Assistants!

How did your job title change in your life?

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 Wed 21 Nov 12 10:39 
 Decommissioning Engineers? - Crankcase
Chap in the village is a transparent materials maintenance operative.
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 Wed 21 Nov 12 10:42 
 Decommissioning Engineers? - Mike Hannon
I started my working life as an apprentice, then journeyman, compositor. Then I became a professional journalist. Now I'm a dinosaur.
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 Wed 21 Nov 12 10:58 
 Decommissioning Engineers? - Duncan
Yes, yes; but are they professionals?
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 Wed 21 Nov 12 11:07 
 Decommissioning Engineers? - Roger.
If they get paid for doing whatever they do - yes!
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 Wed 21 Nov 12 11:11 
 Decommissioning Engineers? - Roger.
Our local transparent materials maintenance operative charges a fiver for operating on our liquid transparent fenestral fittings.
He always has a thick bundle of wonga in his pocket, so I guess that makes him not only professional but very successful.
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 Wed 21 Nov 12 11:21 
 Decommissioning Engineers? - madf
I am Head of Household Detritus Acquisition and Removal.
I do a part time job as Director in Charge of Procurement for Household Comestibles.
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 Wed 21 Nov 12 11:55 
 Decommissioning Engineers? - Robin O'Reliant
I'm just a dogsbody, same as I've always been.
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 Wed 21 Nov 12 12:50 
 Decommissioning Engineers? - madf
>> I'm just a dogsbody, same as I've always been.
>>

I am so sorry but you are

An executive with Roving Brief and Master Troubleshooter.
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 Wed 21 Nov 12 12:53 
 Decommissioning Engineers? - Robin O'Reliant
>> I am so sorry but you are
>>
>> An executive with Roving Brief and Master Troubleshooter.
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I like it. Do I get a new broom?
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 Wed 21 Nov 12 12:57 
 Decommissioning Engineers? - Ted

I know my place !

Ted
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 Wed 21 Nov 12 12:58 
 Decommissioning Engineers? - henry k
I know my place, but I have forgotten my tit le but remember to do as I was toiled.
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 Wed 21 Nov 12 15:12 
 Decommissioning Engineers? - bathtub tom
SWMBO was working in a school when plastic dinosaurs were being given away in cereal packets. She took it upon herself to encourage the children to collect them and pass them to her for the collective good use of the school.

She made herself a badge:- palaeontology coordinator. Had to explain it to some of the teachers.
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 Wed 21 Nov 12 15:15 
 Decommissioning Engineers? - Zero
>> Chap in the village is a transparent materials maintenance operative.

Clearly he is useless and well out of touch. I am my own "Outside Awareness Panels, Sanitation Specialist"
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 Wed 21 Nov 12 15:37 
 Decommissioning Engineers? - Crankcase
>> Clearly he is useless and well out of touch. I am my own "Outside Awareness
>> Panels, Sanitation Specialist"

Reality feed surface improvement consultant?
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 Wed 21 Nov 12 16:09 
 Decommissioning Engineers? - Zero
Now the Bio Waste has really hit the Air Movement Device.
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 Wed 21 Nov 12 16:31 
 Decommissioning Engineers? - Crankcase
And we've reached a liquid confluence constriction without a canoe movement enabler.
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 Wed 21 Nov 12 16:38 
 Decommissioning Engineers? - madf
Some of us obviously have experience of Local Government speak...

Beware of motorised passenger conveyances travelling on circular appendages as if your path intersects with theirs you may suffer a life changing experience.
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 Wed 21 Nov 12 17:34 
 Decommissioning Engineers? - Haywain
Between college courses and jobseeking, I worked for the county council as a road mender. When I later applied for various career posts as a phytopathologist, I always referred to these periods of employment as a 'civil engineering operative'.
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 Wed 21 Nov 12 17:47 
 Decommissioning Engineers? - bathtub tom
I like Terry Pratchett's retro phrenologist.
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