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RE: Stereotypes (WAS: what to look for in a Tech Editor)

Subject: RE: Stereotypes (WAS: what to look for in a Tech Editor)
From: "Kat Nagel, MasterWork Consulting" <mlists -at- masterworkconsulting -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 7 May 2003 14:30:11 -0400


Megan Rock wrote:

"Megan...what do you do?"

"ya know those huge robots you see in the movies and commercials that swing all over the place welding, painting, spinning, and assembling whole
automobiles? I write the instructions on how to build and run those beasts."

"Whoa, COOL! Isn't that how the Terminator started? From robots? Do you know Arnold?"


I got similar reactions from people a few years ago when I documented software for automated materials handling equipment.

"Hey, Kat, whacha doin'?"

"At the moment, I'm writing a manual for warehouse managers who use automated materials handling equipment."
<notices glazed eyes>
"You know, those things at <name of big builders' warehouse> that go "zip" when they move and "bop" when they stop, and "whirr" when they stand still, and get you your eighty-seven 14-foot-long two-by-fours and 200 toggle bolts and a screwdriver all by themselves without a driver. Those things. I write the instructions for the guy who sets it up so that when the clerk types in your order and clicks Send, the thing brings back eighty-seven 14-foot-long two-by-fours and 200 toggle bolts and a screwdriver, and not 13 light bulbs and a garden shovel."

"Oh, COOL!"

That was fun.
--
Kat Nagel,
with apologies to Tom Paxton

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