Today on the return from uni I passed the new Subway that is opening up soon near Queen Street train station. On one of their job adverts, they were advertising for team leaders and sandwich artists. I’ve never really noticed my sandwiches being arranged in a artistic fashion before, maybe it would brighten my day if they were. I feel sorry for the poor art school graduate who ends up filling baguettes for a living.
Does anyone else have examples of jobs with somewhat over enthusiastic job titles?
PhD Student
Hey Ian you might be interested in a book I am reading at the moment. I can lend it to you at the Bristol Barcamp if you are interested. This very example is made in the book “Made to Stick”. They take the subway “sandwich artist” and talk about how completely inappropriate it is. That Subway do not expect their employees to act like artists. They are expected to do work in exactly the same way. They can’t choose to slip some beef in to a veggie sub in the name of art.
Hi David,
That would be really good, thanks very much.
I was a ‘Cast Member’ at UCI. Baloney.