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Wendy, as a sage mentor once told me: "You have to pick your battles
carefully".
If you send him that "cranky-note" what will you gain?
I would go to the marketing person and ask if they really wanted meaningful
feedback. If they answered "yes" I would go over it in a very informal
monotone way. I would let no emotion show.
My advice: Do nothing today, rent a really funny movie on your way home,
laugh your a** off tonight, and tomorrow you should look at this whole thing
differently.
My $0.08
Regards,
Barry Kieffer
Senior Technical Writer
ADC Telecommunications
barry -dot- kieffer -at- adc -dot- com
503.350.6072
Wendy writes <snip>
-----Original Message-----
From: wlewis -at- nclogic -dot- com [mailto:wlewis -at- nclogic -dot- com]
I think I'll send him back a note that
says...
"Other than the inconsistency of tense, gross overuse of passive voice,
unnecessarily large words, technical jargon, sentences that should be broken
into *paragraphs*, and stressing the unimportant details over the major
improvements, yea... it's fine!" What would you do? </snip>
