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I was in a customer meeting a few years ago and our team was going around the table introducing themselves as systems engineer, software engineer, etc., so when it got to me I introduced myself as documentation engineer. LOL!
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Al
> Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2011 13:58:43 -0500
> From: jan -dot- jarnopolin -at- gmail -dot- com
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> years and years ago, i had a manager who insisted on calling the 2 tech
> writers "documentalists".
> Made me crazier than I already was at the time.
> jan
> On 6/12/2011 12:25 PM, voxwoman wrote:
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> Information Product Technologist
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> About 15 years ago, I tried to get "documentarian" to mean what we do, but
> apparently the people who make documentaries have co-opted that term. I
> liked it for it's vaguely cult-like connotations.
>
> -Wendy
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>
>
>
> On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 5:50 AM, Erika Yanovich [1]<ERIKA_y -at- rad -dot- com> wrote:
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> Hi Whirlers,
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> Have you noticed that HR ('manpower' is long defunct) recruiters now call
> themselves talent acquisition consultants? I wonder what would be the
> parallel for us.
>
> Erika
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