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Just wanted your opinion on how I should handle this
problem. My boss feels that there's a very thin line
between a tech writer's job and a secretary's job and
he keeps dumping all kinds of nonsense on me like
keeping a track of the Daily Activity reports of
developers in my company, and making the resumes of
other employees. I feel very underutilized and
misused, but I don't know how to tackle this problem.
One reason is also that the organization is facing a
dearth of projects involving real tech writing work
and I am, technically speaking, on bench right now.
It's not so much the time that these tasks involve,
but more the feeling of not being respected and
violation of my rights. And I am a person who lacks
assertiveness. If there's no tech writing work, I'd
rather that I spend that time honing my tech writing
skills and learning more about tech writing, instead
of doing these silly jobs.
Do I need to justify the salary that my company is
paying me, by doing all this, just because I am on
bench right now? Please tell me how I should tackle
this problem.
John
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