@ai6yr I am out of it now, but I spent nearly 50 years in the corporate world on the engineering and engr-management side. Besides all the stuff going on in the other departments, engineers loved to pull the caste structures into their own lives with layers and layers of titles. At Bell Labs (decades ago), the MTS Member of Tech Staff title included people from newly graduated to Nobel Laureates. Other companies had titles that encompassed 5% salary deltas. Goofy gradations.
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