RE: New poll question? (Was Re: Pinsky poem in the Atlantic "Jar of Pens")

[Marguerite Krupp <mkrupp -at- cisco -dot- com>]

Like many others, my answer would have to be "kind of."

I'm the local doc tools guru (Frame, Word, PSP, etc.), but the engineers who
actually write the software are the real SMEs in the subject matter. And our
publishing software is served by a cadre of priests and priestesses. Lay
folk like us must beg their intercession (on the appropriate form).

Funny thing is, though, I keep getting an automated message from somewhere
deep in the bowels of Cisco asking me to register as an SME on the products
I document so they can refer customer calls to me. I tell them that I'm the
tech writer, not the engineer. The message comes back that "tech writer" is
not an accepted job category. I must be a "content provider." If all I did
was "provide content," I would be very "DIS-content." <Sigh!>

Fortunately, the Delete key still works for such messages.

Marguerite


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