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Subject:Re: Top Ten Things You'd Like To Tell Engineers From:TechComm Dood <techcommdood -at- gmail -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Wed, 11 Aug 2004 11:10:26 -0400
> 1) Everyone loves chocolate. You want Mr SME to love your ass? Give him
> chocolate! Screw the inputs, he simply don't care and WE do NOT have the
> pull to take him.
Bribary is a cop-out. Somewhere in everyone's job description is
usually a clause to the tune of "collaborate with other teams" or
something. The fact is, you do have the pull. Maybe not on your own,
but you do have the pull. And who says it has to be a tug-o-war?
> 2) Mechanism: It's called payment. We are supposed to be grateful for that.
> You know, like the POW's are supposed to be grateful of water.
Well, I suspect that payment is seen more as an expectation than a
gift. After all, employment is nothing more than a contract for
services.
> 3) Wits? If only it were true. Most TECHNICAL WRITERS (I write audio
> scripts, movie scripts etc, this tech comm business is ridiculous. Look at
> basic semantics and tell me again how common symbology does NOT rule) use
> salubrious and esoteric arguments rather than finding the meat on the bones.
> Here, even Plato and I stand united - stop writing proc mans and start
> enacting them. Once you can enact a plan, it finally becomes a process worth
> embodying in documentation. Yes, the mans are necc. Yes, they ARE useless
> unless you stand behind them.
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