peon

They left the memo with the peon of PMO.

Funny thing: I was a peon in Rod Brooks' group right at this transition.

I don't want to get into specifics, but my first job out of college was as a peon in a non-tech industry.

The test of the white-collar peon is how well he supports his manager's reputation.

More work as a peon in other giant corporations, climbing the ladder to middle management?

So here's another reason not to call yourself a programmer: it suggests that you are a peon who needs micromanagement.

The data-entry clerk peon has to ignore that they're completely replaceable and that they'll probably be replaced by a computer sooner or later.

That's like a couple dozen people who post to HN, or someone with a successful medical practice, or a well-rewarded peon who has leverage in an industry made of money.

Part of leveling up from peon to not-quite-sure-but-definitely-not-peon was learning how to talk the part.

I don't see the higher-ups at Facebook thinking "oh, I get the cool stuff the kids today are hip to and I just need some peon programmer to translate my awesomeness into computer speak.

>>"Programmer" sounds like "anomalously high-cost peon who types some mumbo-jumbo into some other mumbo-jumbo.

This philosophy that the peon is too stupid and/or undisciplined to manage his own accounts and that the government must protect him from himself is what gets us into huge messes like this in the first place.

I keep telling folks to describe themselves in terms of making companies metric truckloads of money as opposed to using the word "programmer", which is "cost center peon with anomalously high wages.