Re: "Good enough"

["Karen L. Zorn" <k -dot- zorn -at- zorntech -dot- com>]

Many years ago, at the introduction of stand-alone word processing 
equipmentthe beginning of my career, I worked for a man for whom good 
enough wasn't--it had to be perfect. It made no difference that he was 
always very late bring the finished material to me. Or that it took X 
hours to type the information into the WP equipment which I had to teach 
myself--he wouldn't approve my going to the manufacturer's class (and he 
wouldn't proof read!). Also he insisted that I could reproduce the 
workbooks and class materials cheaper than the local print shop--this is 
also before high-volume copy machines.

We came to a parting of the ways the morning after I had stayed at the 
office until 4 am to get the books reproduced so he could get on a plane 
to the client site at 4 pm the following afternoon. He found a spec on 
pages introduced by a spec on the glass of the copy machine. It wasn't 
perfect, so it had to be redone.

I quit.

Karen L. Zorn
ZornTech LLC
Mesa, AZ

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