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At 11:02 AM 4/1/98 PST, KevinX Feeman wrote:
>Hey all! Due to cost reductions here at Intel, the technical
>publications department is being disbanded. It was previously all
>contract employees in the department except for one perm employee, which
>is being asked to find employment elsewhere in or out of the company.
>All contracts are not being renewed and I will be the last. The
>engineers and programmers will, after my contract is up, be responsible
>for their own documentation. Yea, right! Like that is going to be a
>good idea!
>
>Anyway, one of my duties before my contract is up is to create a virtual
>department, using a web page design. Good thing for my resume.
>However, I have little knowledge of this department (I started 6 weeks
>ago) and have never created a web page of this type. What type of
>information, features, etc. would go on this web page?
This is an April Fools Day joke, right?
--Wayne
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