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by peddling-brink 823 days ago
Similarly, I’d like the movie credit Second Assistant to the Second Second Assistant Director.
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"Junior Assistant Vice-Dean" (or variants thereof) in academia. Those mostly exist to give a pay boost to administrators who've otherwise maxed out on pay.

I recall that my undergrad institution once invented a new deanship out of whole cloth for a coach who'd maxed out on the "professor" pay scale.

Even worse, the bastard didn't even win games!

In that case, I highly recommend watching the movie Synecdoche New York (2008).

PS Can I be your hairdresser?

I'll second that recommendation, and in that same sort of vibe I'd also recommend Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014) and Station Eleven (2021-2022). They all have aspects of stories within stories, which is a trope that I particularly enjoy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Story_within_a_story