Re: What would you do?

[Kat Nagel/MasterWork <katnagel -at- EZNET -dot- NET>]

> this might simply be the work of a marketing
>person who isn't involved in the actual writing,
<<snip>But it still reflects on
>*somebody's* attention to detail. If the owner or chair or whatever
>of this group doesn't bother to look at the marketing materials, or
>*did* look at them and said "this is good enough for me!", wouldn't
>you consider that a bad sign?

Yes, I would.  But I would also tell the owner or chair or whatever that
the person to whom they delegated that job wasn't performing it very well.

BTW, that's one reason why I haven't expanded my business and hired
employees or subcontractors, even when I've had to turn down jobs because I
was too busy.  If I had enough work to justify hiring staff, I wouldn't
have  -time-  to micromanage every piece of copy that went out the door.
And I'm just too paranoid to trust  -anybody-  else with the image of my
business.


@Kat ___________________________________ katnagel -at- eznet -dot- net
Kat Nagel,    MasterWork Consulting Services, Rochester, NY
Technical writing / Editing / Document design

"She has very definite opinions on grammar, but enjoys
 debating them with me before insisting on doing it her
 way, rather like a cat toying with a mouse."
                ______T. Mauro, COPYEDITING-L (7/16/96)

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