Thursday, May 28, 2009

Great Job Titles

Alright folks, I'm seeing a Workers Comp case here. Her documents from the state list her occupation as a "data and document extractor".

This is a job I've never heard of, so I asked her what she does. And she said:

"I work in the mail room. My job is to open up all the envelopes, and give the letters to the sorting people."

So that's what a "data and document extractor" does. Now you know.

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

Gotta love it; from the euphemistic to the sublime. Sounds like a fun parlor game when we were kids; coming up with mystifying job titles for tasks performed in ordinary job descriptions.

Julie said...

I had to contact the director of Leeches once. Name was just as implied. Yuck.

Grumpy, M.D. said...

Wow. that's something my kid's teacher might call herself.

Nurse K said...

Weird, I did that exact job as a temp once (not sure what it was called). You grab a box of letters, make sure they're all going the same way...Then there's a huge-ass machine and you put the letters in it and the machine whips them through and tears them open nice and neat-like. It was for a company that processed surveys, so there were like tens of thousands of letters to open. After that, I got promoted (heh) to the person that put them in a scanner and assigned all the free-form written responses to the surveys to categories of response. At some point in my early 20s, I was an expert in all the ways you could classify cereal, butter, cooking oil etc.

I kind of liked those jobs actually.

Grumpy, M.D. said...

I did home remodeling, drywall, painting, etc, before I did this. I liked that too, Nurse K.

Still comes in handy. But not often. Mrs. Grumpy is better at it than me now.

Nurse K said...

At the same time, at some point, I was a biker bar/nightclub waitress (good lessons in pre-hospital asswhoopin' management, namely, yelling 'get up and get out of here or I'm going to have to call an ambulance!!!!') and worked in a research lab putting urine samples in test tubes and labeling them. Holy trigger finger injury there.

BTW Girls get into waaaaay better barfights than doods. Girls'll bash a beer bottle over your head, pull your hair, throw you on the shards of glass and bitch-stomp yah. Guys just go hide in the parking lot and punch each other. Boring!

Grumpy, M.D. said...

Agree, Nurse K. I used to watch my sister beat the shit out of other girls.

Kim said...

I was afraid to ask where she was extracting them from....

RSDS said...

I worked as a temp-intermittent for two seasons at the IRS. My job title was Mail Extractor.

A different department used automated machinary to cut the envelopes open. Then we Mail Extractors removed, and sorted, the forms and payments.

 
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