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Subject:Re: more #$ -at- %#^&$# secretary stuff... From:Wayne Douglass <wayned -at- VERITY -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 12 May 1998 11:05:26 -0700
At 01:56 PM 5/12/98 -0400, Mary Durlak wrote:
> Went to talk to a potential client today. Talked to the Project
>Coordinator, the lead engineer....got past them, apparently, because they
>brought in the Project Manager.
> He asked a few relevant questions (no cannonballs, no grenades)
>and then said, "Are you willing to take meeting minutes and make copies?"
> Does this *happen* to you gentlemen?
>
Never. But here in Silicon Valley tech writers are too expensive to be given
admin work.
--Wayne
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