Re: Quote of the Day

["Suzette Leeming" <suzette -dot- leeming -at- gmail -dot- com>]

I faced a similar situation at my current company, except I was referred to
as a Documentalist. (The boss now says it sometimes as a joke, but has the
sensibility to duck when he says it, so I know he's joking!).

I spent a lot of time and effort proving my value to the various areas of
the company, and specifically sales. Everyone now knows that I am NOT a font
fondler, and there isn't an area of the company that it exempt from my
involvement and review, including sales proposals, websites, marketing
materials, etc. I don't "pretty up" documents - I review and rewrite for
logical flow, consistency, grammar, etc. Sales prospects have commented on
the quality of our manuals and online help.

I also post a list of current projects on my door, so everyone can see what
I'm involved in.

Suzette Leeming
Stouffville, Ontario


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> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: Quote of the Day
> From: Mary Arrotti <mary_arrotti -at- yahoo -dot- com>
> Date: Tue, August 28, 2007 1:54 pm
> To: Jim Barrow <vrfour -at- verizon -dot- net>,  techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
>
> Would your manager be willing to talk directly to the SVP & ask that
> the SVP use a less demeaning term to refer to the writers?
>
> Another suggestion - ask your manager to publicize the work your team
> does. On a regular basis (weekly, monthly) send to MGT a list of your
> group's contributions and their impact to other groups, the company, and
> the bottom line.
>
> Jim Barrow <vrfour -at- verizon -dot- net> wrote:
> After a recent all-hands meeting, in which a senior VP referred to us
> as scribes, these developers started walking around snapping, "Hey, tech
> writer, go scribe; jot that down".
>
> My manager is disgusted and wants to call a meeting. He wants to spend
> an hour extolling the virtues of the tech writers. Uh...no, I can't
> subscribe to this approach.
>
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