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Subject:Letting off steam From:Michelle Vina-Baltsas <Michelle_Vina-Baltsas -at- US -dot- CRAWCO -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 10 Jun 1999 16:48:11 -0400
Howdy,
I have to let this out to someone and the others in my department are all
gone.
I have just discovered one of the really bad things about letting the SMEs
have
the source files to review. I spent a day fixing all the little things in
the manual
(you know: spaces before MHz and kbit) which our style guide dictates. I was
wondering how I missed so many of them the first time around (it was the 2nd
review).
I've gotten it back after the 3rd review and I have discovered that one of
the engineers
spent a chunk of their precious time TAKING ALL OF MY LITTLE EDITS OUT!!
ARRRRGGGHHHHHH!!!!! <sigh> ARRRGGHHHH!!!! Deep breath. That's better.
Thanks for letting me blow-up about that one.
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Response:
How rude of the engineers. I feel your pain!!! Is there another way you can
send the files next time?
Also, I was glad to read that I'm not the only one out there who misses the
"little things" before the SME finds them.
