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Subject:RE: What to do? From:Goober Writer <gooberwriter -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Wed, 29 Oct 2003 10:17:29 -0800 (PST)
> > < Choo Choo Charlie was an SME,
> > < Choo Choo Charlie was his name we see,
> > < He had an engine and he sure had fun,
> > < He used Good and Plenty Candy to make his train
> > run
> >
> > But Choo Choo Charlie didn't have a degree...
> > So the CEO took away his train, you see...
> > And an engineer *sans* sheepskin is a sad,
> pathetic
> > blighter---
> > He usually ends up working as a technical writer.
>
> And the technical writer sees all of the engineer's
> mistakes,
> And overcome with weariness his hoary head he
> shakes.
> For he knows that he will never get any useful
> changes
> made,
> And the %$# -at- ! engineer is promotable, and more dough
> is paid.
No, the tech writer was *not* an engineer.
Yet that writer was promoted twice that year.
Not for doing what's expected and doing it on time.
Rather, for paying close attention to the company's
bottom line.
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Goober Writer
(because life is too short to be inept)
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