The menace of the overblown job title

Terrible epithets confuse and infuriate, but they are also on the rise.

The truth is that for many workers, there has never been anything trivial about titles and, unhappily, there are signs that things are becoming trickier. PHOTO: PEXELS
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Wall Street banks are always getting in hot water, but it’s generally over something more exciting than a job title.

Not so last week, when it emerged that a senior banker claimed he was given a fancy fake title when he joined Morgan Stanley in Frankfurt in 2021, purely to fool European regulators into thinking the bank was obeying Brexit rules.

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