Everyone's an engineer now!
I recently saw a job advert for an "Application Support Engineer". Upon reading the details of the job it was obvious that the company was looking for nothing more than a glorified help desk grunt. But someone in management thought that adding "Engineer" to the job title will add just enough esteem to the job that the new hire will stay for a while. (Thankless job, that. At one employer we had a new help desk hire not come back after lunch on his first day.) Gawd help the poor sap if s/he lives in a state with an overly aggressive professional licensing board, though.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
