Re: Legal Question Regarding Job Titles

["Comeau, Lisa" <ComeauL -at- MOHYF-MX1 -dot- MOHDEV -dot- GOV -dot- ON -dot- CA>]

<major snippage fore and aft - plagiarism?> ;-)

I use the term Technical Writer on my resume for all of these positions
because I feel it's a better, more universal descriptive.

 I'm wondering if a legal problem could somehow arise from "falsifying
information."  Any thoughts?

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Perhaps I have been remiss in my payment of "Allowed to Give Legal Advice to
the List" dues, but I'm-a-gonna give my humble (and perhaps uninformed)
opinion that there would be no way you could be sued for "falsifying
information" unless the job title you "give yourself" is either totally
false or intentionally misleading.

If a garbage man (or woman) can call him/herself a "Sanitation Engineer",
and a gas station attendant can call him/herself a "Petroleum Distributions
Expert", why are we worried about the falsifying of info? These titles may
be grandiose, but they are true. That's why God gave us po' folk them
Thesauruses back in the days of dinosaurs...

Now, if a man called himself an "Emotions Expert", I would assume that he
has had some type of sensitivity training, but if I was unclear, I'd ask
before I'd date him... (Sorry guys - couldn't pass it up...) ;-)

But seriously, unless you have deliberately given yourself a title that is
well-understood in certain circles (anyone know what a Deputy Munitions
Sighting Specialist is?) which denotes qualities or experience you do not
posess, you can call yourself "Bambi" on your resume for all I would care,
and if I needed more info, I'd ask. Then again, if I thought there was any
chance of a potential employer misunderstanding the title, I would offer to
clarify before they asked.

Lisa Comeau
Provoker of Thought, Fighter of Flame, Detester of Redundancy, Hater of
Repeated Things ;-)
Ontario, Canada

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