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TIPPERARY READER Betty Gleeson writes to complain about the latter-day tendency of employers to give their staff ever-more complex job titles, for no good reason.

An example that particularly bemuses her, spotted on a reply to one of her son’s job applications recently, is “Talent Acquisition Specialist”. But I respectfully suggest that, by the standards of the genre, this is a rather modest title. In fact, the TAS in question may be selling himself a bit short here, given the potential for a more dynamic-sounding acronym: TASK. “Talent Acquisition Specialist and Know-all” might do the trick.