Title Inflation: When Everyone Is a VP

Companies hand out grand titles like participation trophies. In this episode Dr Disruptor performs a forensic audit on title inflation: why organizations prefer fancy job names, how titles become a cheap optics tool, and where that leaves you when responsibilities, pay, and promotion paths don't match the business card. The Survivor narrates the human cost—role creep, burnout, confused recruiters—and then hands out survival gear: a clear translation framework to map titles to concrete skills, resume-friendly rewrites that stay honest, and three humane scripts to get clarity from managers or push for compensation instead of cosmetic promotions. Entertaining, actionable, and just long enough to fit into a bio-break, this episode helps you protect your time, keep your career currency real, and stop measuring career health by font size on a business card.