Re: Has the industry gone insane?

["Collin Turner" <straylightsghost -at- gmail -dot- com>]

Thanks everyone for your comments and support on this thread.

I've negotiated a new position at a new company, left the old company
and took appropriate action.
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On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 1:43 PM, ct <straylightsghost -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
> 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
> collinturner.com
>
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