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RE: Is this a typical technical writing environment?
Subject:RE: Is this a typical technical writing environment? From:"Bill Swallow" <wswallow -at- nycap -dot- rr -dot- com> To:"'T. Word Smith'" <techwordsmith -at- yahoo -dot- com>, "'TECHWR-L'" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Mon, 23 Feb 2004 22:07:27 -0500
::: The only problems I have and continue to run into from
::: non-technical writers has everything to do with
::: managers pronouncing from on-high about things they
::: don't understand (and don't want to understand) and
::: really nothing to do with any particular quadrant of
::: the brain. (You know, king-of-the-hill syndrome.)
Those aren't managers... They're manglers. ;)
If only your employer would institute an IQ test for candidate screening...
That would certainly solve that problem... Or not... ;)
Bill Swallow
wswallow "at" nycap "dot" rr "dot" com
