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Having coordinator in your job title sucks ass!!!

I don't know if I'm the only one who notices this but if you have coordinator in your job title, you're stuck doing all of the garbage work. Here's a scenario:

Manager from other dept: "I need help with this task."
My boss: "Ok. CoCo will help you coordinate this."
Me: "Uh, ok! Is there a file with information?"
My boss and manager from other department: "No."

This has happened to me twice now. Two e-mails have literally ensured that I have more than enough work to keep me busy. Now, I'm all for learning new things and all, but what irks me is that nobody tells you anything. You basically have to relearn everything yourself by asking questions. People assume you should know this already. It's sooooo frustrating. People are so busy, doing God knows what, they cannot take 10 minutes of their time to explain to you the thread of events which led to the problem. I've surely honed my detective skills since starting work here. The work that I was originally hired to do has taken a backseat to these new projects I'm coordinating. Oh well. People will have to complain to my boss if they think the project I was originally hired to take care of is progressing slowly.

I have no more faith in my co-workers. From this day forward, I will treat everyone as a potential enemy. I'm sure this will make my work life a little easier.

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This is my title
Submitted by Intolerance on Thu, 10/04/2007 - 20:26.

"Systems Coordinator" an incredibly vague title, created that way on purpose, so I can never, ever, say- "It's not my job." I feel your pain.

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I was a "coordinator" until recently
Submitted by antilles1974 on Thu, 10/04/2007 - 21:56.

I completely agree with you. "Coordinator" can mean one of two things. The first is, "We think we need this position, but we don't know what this person will be doing exactly, so 'coordinator' sounds like an important title and we can justify it in our budget." The second meaning is, "Let's pay this person as little as possible and make them do the shit we don't want to do ourselves."

From the perspective of the boss or other staff, other meanings for the job title "coordinator" include:
- Having someone else do a completely simple task or set of tasks that I'm more than capable of doing (and should be doing myself), but was led to believe it is very complicated.
- Having a "coordinator" on staff makes me feel special and justifies the outrageous salary I'm being paid.

I haven't updated folks on my current situation. Let me just tell you that I'm much happier now in my new job. Still, I can't get this out of my head - overhearing the VP while on the phone say, "Honey, while you are up there why don't you get some information on how much one of those vacation homes cost?"

Makes me want to barf!

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