Re: Has the industry gone insane?

[ct <straylightsghost -at- gmail -dot- com>]

In all honesty, I was kidnapped into this group.

We have a parent company, that we (the child company) are developing.
I am writing the SDK documentation. She got the bigger budget, so she
was able to pull me and she HATES fighting with the doc manager. So,
she went over his head.

I came in one day, he patted me on the back, crossed me and said "Go with God".

I now walk in the valley of...you know the rest.

Seriously though. Out of a team of 45, 30 have said "It's the way she
works...just ignore her". Well, I never suffer in silence...heheheh.

-Collin

On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 3:06 PM, Elizabeth Labine <elabine -at- aurora -dot- com> wrote:
> How the heck did you ever get so unlucky as to have gotten moved to her
>  group?
>  'Management thru intimidation' IS truly the way it seems to be going
>  these days - certainly B-schools have an excess of courses on cut-throat
>  management.  Leave....
>  I'll keep my fingers crossed that you get something soon and one hundred
>  times better with a double or triple in salary.
>
>
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>  [mailto:techwr-l-bounces+elabine=aurora -dot- com -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com] On
>  Behalf Of ct
>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 2:02 PM
>  To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
>
>
> Subject: Re: Has the industry gone insane?
>
>  I am a pretty good mediator, that's failed...or is failing. So now I
>  simply follow CYA and yes, looking for a new job.
>
>  It's just madness though. Being pulled out of an established Doc group
>  in a company and placed in a new group where the manager can attempt
>  to manage by intimidation? Wow. Even the Doc Manager is amazed. His
>  hands are tied though, his words..."Wow, you're screwed!"
>
>  -Collin
>
>  On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 2:50 PM, Paul Kretschmer
>  <Paul -dot- Kretschmer -at- yardi -dot- com> wrote:
>  > 1.  Learn to meditate.
>  >
>  >  2.  Get a new job.
>  >
>  >  --
>  >  Paul Kretschmer | Technical Writer, Documentation
>  >  toll free 800.866.1124 x191 | local 805.699.2040 x191 | fax
>  805.699.2044
>  >  paul -dot- kretschmer -at- yardi -dot- com | www.yardi.com
>  >
>  >
>  >  -----Original Message-----
>  >  From: techwr-l-bounces+paul -dot- kretschmer=yardi -dot- com -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
>  >
>  [mailto:techwr-l-bounces+paul -dot- kretschmer=yardi -dot- com -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com]
>  >  On Behalf Of ct
>  >  Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 12:43 PM
>  >  To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
>  >  Subject: Has the industry gone insane?
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  > It's a trend I'm seeing more and more. "The return of
>  >  Micro-management" and "death-by-committee". The last two companies
>  >  I've contracted at have been overburdened by the syndromes. The tower
>  >  in which I currently toil is bad enough to extract me from the Doc
>  >  Writing department and place me under a manager who believes threats
>  >  are the best form of motivation.
>  >
>  >  I have no review process.
>  >  I have no style guides.
>  >  I have only 2-4 hours of XP meetings and a very tedious, slow-moving
>  >  "approval by 'track-changes' system" in which to get a document to
>  the
>  >  good enough stage.
>  >
>  >  About to throw my hands up and become a monk.
>  >  Calligraphy by candlelight is better than this!
>  >
>  >  Suggestions?
>  >
>  >  -Collin
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