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Re: How to fend off a tech writer

Subject: Re: How to fend off a tech writer
From: DaveC <voicebox -at- dnai -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 00:12:40 -0700

One of our developers told me about a place he worked where the developers had cards, red on one side, green on the other, that they posted on the outside of their cubes.

I did a little writing/designing with the concept (the green side has white type dropped out of it saying "Feel free to knock"; the red side says "Not right now, please). I printed them up and put them in a Take One pocket on the outside of my cube. Word got around, and developers stopped by to pick them up. So how many birds did I kill with that stone? ;-)

Common parlance for handwritten signs hung across cube doorways where I once worked: "Please go away."

Everyone understood and no one took it personally.

Dave
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