2. A person who, in real terms, is unskilled, and cant
see it, despite thinking they have a 'talent'. The
person often makes inappropriate, obtuse, or
simplistic comments, to everyone elses amusement.
So you're saying he's really insulting the people who came up with the phrase "Sandwich Artist", not the people who hold it as a job title? Because that's ridiculous. He used the phrase "Sandwich Artist" to evoke the image of an unskilled person who thinks they're much more important than they think they are. It comes from the fact that Subway employees are called "Sandwich Artists", despite their job being much the same as any other fast food server.
It does not take a degree in linguistics to understand that using someone else's job title in a derogatory manner is shitting on the person with the job title. This is something you should have learned in grade school.
I've never encountered that definition. I've only seen it in terms of "god, the management at Subway sure is full of itself". I think it was the Subway definition that enko was using. Management using a ridiculous fancy term to pretend they care about employees.
Ironic that I couldn't quite get my point across, after complaining about misuse of language!
This point has been belaboured far more than it deserves, but for the record I had in mind both the cynical management with their ludicrous, condescending job titles, and any employee naive enough to believe it.
The blogger in question didn't make up the phrase, it's been handed down to him, but he's taken it up with gusto. He's sort of an enthusiastic consumer of the management BS. I hadn't thought of the angle of criticising the poor hard-working minimum wage Subway employees; wasn't my intention. Think Gareth/Dwight from The Office though, wearing his Sandwich Artist badge with obnoxious pride, and that's sort of close.
Anyway, more words have been wasted on this matter than ever it deserved...
It does not take a degree in linguistics to understand that using someone else's job title in a derogatory manner is shitting on the person with the job title. This is something you should have learned in grade school.