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RE: Convincing management of the value of documentation?
Subject:RE: Convincing management of the value of documentation? From:"Porrello, Leonard" <lporrello -at- illumina -dot- com> To:Peter Neilson <neilson -at- windstream -dot- net>, "techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>, Keith Purtell <keithpurtell -at- keithpurtell -dot- com> Date:Mon, 19 Mar 2012 16:54:12 +0000
I love Peter's idea.
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Subject: Re: Convincing management of the value of documentation?
On Mon, 19 Mar 2012 00:52:50 -0400, Keith Purtell <keithpurtell -at- keithpurtell -dot- com> wrote:
> once stated that our job was so easy that "a ninth-grader could do it."
Find a better-paying job elsewhere and recommend a ninth-grader to replace you.
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