MFWIC

 

A little over twenty years ago I was working for a small engineering firm in Anaheim, CA. One day we got a questionnaire about business cards. The first question was:

Do you need business cards?

Inasmuch as I never met with customers I saw no need for business cards, so I answered No.

The next question was:

What title do you want on your business cards?

I figured that, because I wasn't going to get any cards I could put down any title I wanted, so I answered Engineer Extraordinaire.

Evidently nobody read the questionnaires because in a couple of weeks I got business cards and the title read Staff Engineer.

More recently I worked at a small defense contractor where I designed explosively-formed penetrator (EFP) warheads. For a while I was allowed to have the title Mathematician on my business cards, but later our manager made me change the title because he felt that our customers wouldn't be able to figure out what I did with the current title. Odd, really - what I did was mathematics.

 

Rich, you got a job? Should I pull the plug on the one we've been working on?

 

The Main Man for Makin' (Prod. Dev.), Talkin' Up (Marketing), and Shipping Outta Here (Int'l Sales).

 

King Jackass. Seriously, it goes well on business cards -- I know first hand.