exempt titles
Many IT that are supposedly considered exempt titles should actually be non-exempt.
Back when labor laws were established, was considered a professional "profession" would be exempt from overtime requirements, then a programmer was specifically identified as a professional due to the just new profession was an extremely important one that required a higher level of education. Many corporations took that as meaning could exempt all IT jobs calling everyone a systems, network or some other engineer, being that an actual engineer was a highly educated person in a specialized profession.
These meanings have been raped to the point of being meaningless and titles are proliferated within IT accordingly and misclassified as exempt in order to forgo compensating overtime when IT folks can only do many of the changes, upgrades, etc during non business hours. If the overtime is a scheduled work effort and required to be worked, then that time is not exempt!
And here is a title for you...
Obsolescence Engineer
A person who takes a perfect design and purposely redesigns a part or parts to fail within a specified lifetime. Consumable products are done this way in order to guarantee some sort of return to purchase usually within a five to ten year period.
On some products that are warranty issues, etc, the devices only take a inexpensive part to be replaced and then the item is resold as refurbished.
Google it to see for yourself
