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user-inactivated · 3082 days ago · link · · parent · post: Programmers: Stop Calling Yourselves Engineers
I had a conversation with an acquaintance who works at a bank recently: "I got vice-president." "That's great!" "No it isn't, I'm the last on my team to get it." "... everyone on your team is a vice president?" "And three quarters of the whole department." I insist on calling myself a programmer, on the grounds that anyone who assumes I'm a peon to be ignored because of it is someone I'd rather someone else have to deal with.