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Subject:RE: Top ten dumb comment - long From:"White, Shannon S" <ssw82247 -at- GlaxoWellcome -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Fri, 20 Apr 2001 12:11:17 -0400
I have to stop at 10?
(1) Can you just put this in pdf format? (which only requires clicking the
pdf button as we all know)
(2) If you could come up with some folder names and move these files into
them. . . (and that's the whole task)
(3) Can you make this PowerPoint presentation really neat? (meaning flying
text, sounds, etc.)
(4) Just cut and paste this information directly in. Don't change it at
all. (into RoboHelp because I'm smart enough to be the only one who knows
the software but apparently too freakin' dumb to write the text - FOR AN
APPLICATION I'VE SUPPORTED FOR OVER A YEAR!!!!.)
(5) I really need a screenshot of this. Could you do me one right now?
You're just the queen of screenshots.
(6) I think I know more about writing than you do. (in a snotty tone - the
guy was a jerk insurance analyst - it became such a problem that there was a
meeting between us and 2 levels of management on both sides - at one point I
practically screamed that I had an MA in English, the job title of Technical
Writer, and this was something I did as a career and not a clerical hobby.
I won. One of the managers came by later and told me he was sorry I had to
do that, but the jerk and his management wouldn't have understood
otherwise.)
(7) No, you can't be on that project. You do tech writing and not
documentation. (uh, the difference?)
(8) We'll need 12 copies of each of these 25 manuals. Can you see to that?
(I fought with the printers 100% of my time for 6 weeks trying to get these
done.)
(9) Just get this information into an Excel spreadsheet. It doesn't matter
how it looks.
(10) and, my very favorite, "Can you change this word? Now." (It was in a
Word document. All that was necessary was using the delete or backspace key
and then typing in the alternative word. She, however, brought it back to
me, because it was clearly beneath her to do, but I was obviously clerical
so it didn't matter. She stood over me to make sure I dropped everything
and did it then. She then watched as I e-mailed the file to her. Needless
to say, there was no "thank you". Then again, why thank the hired help?)
Shannon White
Technical Communication & Design Specialist
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