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Re: Time Management: WAS Criticizing Writers - What Would You Have Done?
Subject:Re: Time Management: WAS Criticizing Writers - What Would You Have Done? From:"Poster" <Poster -at- aurora -dot- cotse -dot- net> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Wed, 30 Mar 2005 17:23:25 -0500 (EST)
Amanda_Abelove -at- toyota -dot- com said:
> Nichols wrote:
>
>> everyone else in the process. The biggest problems were talking,
>> surfing the web, and writing personal email, to the point that
>> deadlines were missed on more than one occasion.
>
> Anyone have pointers? I'm a total social creature... Everyone at the
> gym
> knows me, I belong to a ton of clubs, throw parties 2-3x a month, know
> all
> my neighbors for three blocks at home... I can always count on at
> least 3
> friends in my house doing something or other almost all the time. I
> am
> doing culinary arts training, but that is for fun and to meet new
> people... I'm not looking to trade careers anytime soon.
Well, from the outside, it looks like you have it all together. The
developers give you info without the usual exhausting and painful
process of psycho-surgery; there's really nowhere else to go except
convincing lots of higher ups that just b/c the code's done, the
product isn't done....
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