Yeah the term "engineer" has been diluted into oblivion, and we only have ourselves to blame for not protecting it.

Agree 100%, even blue collar workers guard their profession. Hell, I was talking to a friend and they rejected her for a retail job because she had never worked in retail before. Engineering on the other hand has zero gatekeeping - it's a sign spinner job right now. Just do a few humiliation rituals like daily standup and you're the perfect candidate!

	▲	glitchc 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		> Just do a few cleansing rituals like daily standup and you're the perfect candidate! There, FTFY

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fakedang 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

In Dubai, the poor underpaid folks cleaning the roads and gutters late at night are called "Cleaning Engineers" and "Garden Engineers". It's honestly sad, almost a mockery.

	▲	quesera 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		In the US, we've had "sanitation engineer" as the euphemistic neologism for "worker paid to pick up your garbage bins" for 50(?) years.

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GLdRH 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

In German you're not even an engineer if you don't sometimes wear a hard hat or hold a screwdriver.

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GuinansEyebrows 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

protecting it? ha! we’re just the first group of greater fools who thought it applied to us in the first place (hell, i became an “engineer” with an Associates degree!). just because we benefited from the prestige doesn’t always mean we’re actually held to the classical standards of engineers.