RE: Technical communication under the gun

["Downing, David" <DavidDowning -at- users -dot- com>]

Yes, but I was the technical communicator on the team.

-----Original Message-----
From: Gene Kim-Eng [mailto:techwr -at- genek -dot- com] 
Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2008 3:13 PM
To: Downing, David; techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Subject: Re: Technical communication under the gun

Are you any good with puzzles?  I stink at them, and
would never be able to tell someone how to assemble
one no matter how much time I had to do it.

Gene Kim-Eng


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Downing, David" <DavidDowning -at- users -dot- com>
> Maybe I'm pushing the envelope to post this to the main list, but it
> does involve technical communication of sorts. Today, the company I 
> work
> for did its version of the Olympics, and one of the events called for 
> a
> blindfolded person to assemble a puzzle, with verbal assistance from 
> the
> other member of the team, who had a picture of the finished puzzle in
> front of them. The first team to get the puzzle assembled was the
> winner. Well, t occurred to me that this called for technical
> communication under the gun. I confess, everybody else on the team did

> a
> better job than I did, even though I'm the technical writer. I guess I
> don't work well under that kind of time pressure.

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