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Subject:Re: re The Sub Shop Guy From:"Herman Holtz" <h -dot- holtz -at- worldnet -dot- att -dot- net> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Sun, 4 Feb 2001 06:36:34 -0500
Perhaps the view or reaction of coworkers and/or management is dependent
on what your work and its results do for them. If they get no personal
reward--e.g., aid in performing some chore of their own--it's easy to take
your work and your achievements for granted. No body cared whether I won a
new contract or not, unless that contract yhad some effect on thei lives,
even as little as bragging rights, if they had been even indirectly involved
in the accomplishment. - Herm
>
> I've been performing and supervising technical writing for more than
> twenty years, and I've been the least appreciated when I worked
> the hardest. I don't know whether it's because when the management
> doesn't appreciate the writer, the management tends to assign a
> lot of work on the assumption that it's easy; or perhaps
> because by doing a lot of high-quality work in a short time, I
> lead the management to assume that the work is easy and therefore
> not deserving of much appreciation; or simply because when I am
> working very hard I am not as cheerful, forgiving, and mellow as
> when I have plenty of time to spare.
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