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Subject:Re: Re: You're not the only person who can write From:"M Page" <mpage -at- csl -dot- co -dot- uk> To:techwr-l Date:Mon, 26 Jan 2004 10:06:27 -0000
Bingo
My standard patter is "It's more cost effective to have me do this because
I'm cheaper, and since I do this all day, every day, quicker."
"Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com> wrote in message news:226233 -at- techwr-l -dot- -dot- -dot-
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SNIP
> The way to enlist engineers' support for the continued
> retention of tech writers is not to keep telling them that
> you're there because they can't, but rather that you're
> there so they won't have to.
>
> Gene Kim-Eng
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> On
> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 06:41:19 -0800 (PST) Steven Brown?wrote:
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> >Yes. But somehow they've made it through 24 months of
> >software developement and customer support without me.
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