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Subject:RE: What to do??? From:"Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:27 Oct 2003 18:56:17 GMT
First, ask yourself *why* you feel the way you do. Are you
rushing to meet tight deadlines, or is it just that the bad
input itself is dizzying? If it's the former, then don't
tell your boss how you "feel," but point out that telling
the SMEs to pay NO attention to grammar and spelling (as
opposed to telling them to "do the best you can and let
Wade fix your mistakes") is causing enough comprehension
issues to be putting schedule at risk. OTOH, if you're
being given enough time to do the work and it's just making
your head spin, take the breaks you need to catch your
breath and realize that your boss appears to have a lot of
confidence in your ability to single-handedly make all of
these peoples' work comprehensible, which in the long run
can translate into job security. They need you because
their engineers *really* can't write...
Gene Kim-Eng
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Mon, 27 Oct 2003 09:59:19 -0800 Wade Courtney?wrote:
I just started a job at a new company in Sept. Some of the engineers
are Russian and they have problems with their English. Ok, no worries,
but my boss has given them instructions to not worry about grammar,
spelling, or anything else because I will fix it. Editing these
documents puts me on the edge of insanity and I have to take a break
nearly every half a page. How can I tactfully handle telling my boss
how I feel?
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