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Re: Offshore writers and editors

Subject: Re: Offshore writers and editors
From: Michele Davis <michele -at- krautgrrl -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2003 11:18:19 -0600


I agree, please look at my post! I believe that quality is a consideration of the past. I have plenty of writer friends that are either 1) unemployed, 2) looking at working for Amex as a financial planner, or 3) working retail.

These are talented people! And I'm just keeping my head about water as a freelancer. I'm actually applying for full time positions, hoping that will work out because freelancing in the midwest has gone down the toilet with the offshoring competition AND all the other unemployed writers and trainers that are dragging rates to levels I was paid in 1985.

<shaking my head in disgust>

Michele

k k wrote:

It all comes down to money, pure and simple. It's
cheaper for companies to hire writers in India than to
hire writers here. A lot of companies don't really
care whether the documentation is any good, anyway.
Since documentation doesn't produce income, and it
can't be proven to add any value to the products that
do sell, they regard anything spent on documentation
as a loss and they'll do anything they can to reduce
that loss. The phrase "Nobody actually reads the
manual" used to be an expression of frustration among
technical personnel - it's become a policy statement
among bean-counters.






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