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Subject:RE: Best laid plans of mice From:"Gordon McLean" <gordon -dot- mclean -at- ciboodle -dot- com> To:"'Cardimon, Craig'" <ccardimon -at- M-S-G -dot- com>, "'Technical Writing'" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Tue, 2 Dec 2008 15:47:37 -0000
Fascinating.
Is there a point or was this just a random pondering?
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Sent: 02 December 2008 14:39
To: Technical Writing
Subject: Best laid plans of mice
Once when I l left a place for which I was maintained their databases, I
wrote procedures for all the things I did. I was working as a programmer at
the time.
I put my notes into a nice binder, showed it to everyone in operations, went
through it with someone, and left it in plain sight.
Sometime later I discovered the binder got kicked under some furniture and
forgotten. My notes were never used. How about that?
I actually went back to work at that same company years later at another
location and found my old binder in a box of old papers. I retrieved it and
kept it. I still have it.
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