RE: This too is technical communication

["Dori Green" <dgreen -at- associatedbrands -dot- com>]

Taking meeting minutes is a fine job for a TW or TC.  We're often the only member of a team who's remotely qualified to do so.  I facilitate our quality management system team meetings and take and prepare the minutes, no problem.

Being told that we're only there to record the minutes, or type them up, is getting into dangerous territory.  Especially if the previous <male> tech writer wasn't required to take the minutes or type them.

It depends on the situation.  I have happily pitched in, and in two instances in my career this has been the back-breaking straw (on top of other problems) and I have left that job.  It depends.

Dori Green
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