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Re: #$ -at- % secretary stuff and the Grammar Guru
Subject:Re: #$ -at- % secretary stuff and the Grammar Guru From:John Posada <john -at- TDANDW -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 13 May 1998 13:15:07 -0400
Huh? I get paid substantaily more than the engineers or programmers around
here. You must be an employee.
Hutchings, Christa wrote:
> And there's the great paradox of our profession. The
> engineer/programmers get paid big bucks to design stuff, not to
> communicate. We get paid not so big bucks to figure out how that stuff
> works and communicate it to our customers. Seems to me we may be as
> important to the process as the engineer/programmers, yet how many of us
> command the salaries they do?
>
