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RE: Honestly -- when an SME completely REWRITES your text ... GEEZ!
Subject:RE: Honestly -- when an SME completely REWRITES your text ... GEEZ! From:"Downing, David" <DavidDowning -at- users -dot- com> To:<techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Fri, 17 Oct 2008 10:55:20 -0500
From: Peter Neilson <neilson -at- windstream -dot- net>
Subject: Re: Honestly -- when an SME completely REWRITES your text ...
GEEZ!
What he has done is far, far better than the SME who sits on the review
for days, says nothing, and then explodes after you have released
"erroneous" final material that only he could have corrected.
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Yes, people have done THAT many, many times, and both me and my manager
hate it.
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