In my short career I have thus far worked in IS, IT, TSG (Technical Services Group) and IS&T - all without changing jobs!

The department name change has also never been reflected in my job title, which is simply "Corporate IT Support". I did ask for "Senior Idiot", but was told that the best I could hope for was "Assistant to the Senior Idiot".

[Sigh...]

Kent, as for naming schemes (servers, printers, whatever) you're opening a huge can of worms. Whilst I appreciate the logic of a server named (for example) CORPDRDC01 (our first Corporate division domain controller at the DR site) - I personally would much rather have a "friendly" naming scheme. So we have a compromise - the names get friendlier if users will need to reference the servers directly. Hence, CORPPRINT01, CORPDATA01 and others. I did try to hold out for a Lord of the Rings theme, thinking GANDALF was a great name for a PDC, but the support wasn't there...!

Printers are a different matter, though. I firmly believe that printers should have good friendly names, to help the users refer to them. I'm based in London in the UK, and at my last company, our printers were named after stations on the London Underground. This worked really well, as each dept could be assigned a line, and we never ran out of stations. It means more to a user if his printer has a big sticker on it saying "Baker Street", or "Leicester Square", when compared to another printer naming scheme I've come across (print server-location-printer ID) - horrible names like LONPRT04-OMP4th-02 - not too memorable.

Just my £0.02.
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