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Post by Deleted on Feb 16, 2019 16:47:59 GMT
>>You're either a director of a company or you're not.
That makes no sense.
Somebody with a job title 'director' is a director in the same way that someone who has a job title 'manager' is a manager.
Those are simply job titles.
An entirely different subject is that which is often referred to as a "Statutory Director" which is someone who has a legal standing within a company beyond his employment by that company. His employment job title may not even contain the word "Director". Job title and status/role are not necessarily the same thing.
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Post by Avant on Feb 16, 2019 17:17:47 GMT
What I meant was that either you're a director, legally appointed according to the Companies Act, or you're not. The term 'statutory director' isn't commonly used in the UK, although I know what you mean.
Fortunately one can find out from Companies House who a company's actual directors are, whatever job titles the company might be using for its management.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 16, 2019 23:53:03 GMT
When I worked for an American company, I had a title that wouldn't easily fit on a normal business card. "Vice President - Sales and Marketing - Footwear and Accessories -UK and Europe" I did ask them to shorten it to "UK Sales Bloke" (and very nearly got away with it.) One of my employers insisted that I have a company tattoo when I joined. I still have it. It usually says "IBM UK Ltd." but when I'm happy it says "International Business Machines United Kingdom Limited." |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 17, 2019 0:08:28 GMT
Same thing happened to me at UNESCO.
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Post by dixinormus on Feb 17, 2019 1:41:42 GMT
And, umm, isn’t a Director’s time better spent flying back from Milan in around 4 hours, to free-up the rest of the day doing more useful and productive Director-y things?! 😉
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Post by Avant on Feb 17, 2019 15:51:22 GMT
I think he went out there with enough shoes to fill his E-class estate plus a roofbox. That might have been a lot of excess baggage if he'd flown.
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Post by WDB on Feb 17, 2019 19:49:14 GMT
I've read about companies whose entire business is built on moving important stuff quickly from one place to another.
Where I work (and where I worked before) there’s an Events team that supports us at trade shows and the like. They move demo kit and banners and booths and boatloads of branded giveaways. I’ve yet to hear of any of them moving this stuff in their own car.
Whisper it softly but I suspect Humph does it this way because he secretly likes it. 🙊
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Post by Deleted on Feb 17, 2019 20:19:43 GMT
I have never understood the title of salaried partner. A partner implies full personal responsibility and a full share in the profits. A salaried partner implies all the responsibility and none of the benefits. I became a partner in 2001. I am glad I am now a director. My signature has underneath it 'Managing Director' but it seems meaningless on a letter to another surveyor unless they are 30 years younger than me.
Hmmm, many are.... Gulp.
Besides I hate managing and prefer valuing. Chief Valuer?? Sounds a bit bureaucratic??
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Post by Deleted on Feb 17, 2019 21:51:09 GMT
I rarely have a job title on my business cards.
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Post by WDB on Feb 17, 2019 22:42:58 GMT
I no longer have a business card at all.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 18, 2019 4:50:38 GMT
If only. Still winning business, so they are important. However, these days I can send people a bespoke email from my phone, so less vital than previously.
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Post by tyrednexited on Feb 18, 2019 8:21:35 GMT
....many years ago, quite near the start of my employment, one of the guys I first worked for (later to become a life-long friend) reckoned one of the local senior manager's business card should contain the job title " Figurehead F*ckabout"............. ........a quite apt description, and something that from time-to-time came to mind as applicable to a number of people I encountered later in my career.  |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 18, 2019 8:37:05 GMT
I'd rather not have to have a job title. Or job, come to that.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 18, 2019 13:43:54 GMT
I'd rather not have to have a job title. Or job, come to that. We'll always have jobs.... Someone's husband, father etc. We just won't get paid.... |
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Post by Humph on Feb 20, 2019 9:40:36 GMT
I don't like titles much either. Sometimes it's handy to let people know that you're the boss, and that your decision can be relied upon or is final, but sometimes it's also useful just to be known as that bloke from that supplier.
I use mine sparingly and with caution.
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