Re: Why the World Needs Tech Writers

["Ned Bedinger" <doc -at- edwordsmith -dot- com>]

> I believe that I accidentally sent this to a list member yesterday.  I
thought I'd share it with everyone.  It made me laugh.
>
> At my current job, I'm writing and rewriting policies and procedures.
Some of the policies qualify as the world's longest run-on sentence, while
others have more comma-splices than...er...well, something that has a lot of
comma- splices.  Then there's the policy that I started with this morning:
>
> "...the following procedures are to be followed until such time that the
problem has been resolved and the impacted area of services, have beer
restored to the client."
>
> Damn!  And all I asked for when I accepted this position was paid
holidays.  No one told me that hops and barley was an option:^)


Yep,  the typical group lifestyle insurance policy covers one barley therapy
session per week. (-: Where ya been? :-)




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