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Subject:Re: ANON: My replacement From:Tom Herme <hermet -at- DNINEVADA -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 27 Jan 1999 09:51:15 -0800
So John, did you like to write, organize your thoughts? Did you like thinking? I'll bet
you did. I agree that proofing my own stuff (dealing with English rules, as you put it)
is a pain, but it's a necessary evil and goes with the territory. My point is that the
individual I'm describing didn't really care about putting together content in some way
that made sense to end users. Basically she just kissed up to the content authors
(engineers) without any critical judgement exercised. She took what she got and did a
slam dunk into a format.
Tom
John Posada wrote:
> Tom...
>
> I didn't like English classes in school either. They weren't hard, I just thought
> they were boring as hell. I still think dealing with English rules is boring.
>
> >.....after he hired her, she and I were just talking, and she said that she always
> disliked English classes in school. I had to
> >crank my jaw up from the floor where it fell when I heard this.
>
> --
> John Posada, Technical Writer
> Bellcore, where Customer Satisfaction is our number one priority
>mailto:john -at- tdandw -dot- com mailto:jposada -at- notes -dot- cc -dot- bellcore -dot- com
> My opinions are mine, and neither you nor my company can take credit for
> them.
> "Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish,
> and he will sit in a boat and smoke cigars all day."
> "The only perfect document I ever created is still on my hard drive."
>
> From ??? -at- ??? Sun Jan 00 00:00:00 0000==
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Tom Herme
Senior Technical Writer
DNI Nevada, Inc. mailto://hermet -at- dninevada -dot- com
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