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Subject:Re: Drug testing and Working From Home From:Bruce Byfield <bbyfield -at- axionet -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Sat, 21 Oct 2000 16:59:31 -0700
Barry Kieffer wrote:
>
> This is another reason why technical writers should not be allowed to
> tele-commute and work at home - it is for their own good.
>
> I don't want my technical writers working from home, drinking all day and taking
> opiates.
>
> For their own good, technical writers need to be in the office every day, clean
> and sober, interacting with the engineers and other SMEs.
>
> Let them work at home and all they do is end up hopped up on goof balls, drunk,
> surfing porn, and having six or more hungry babies.
>
You forgot marathon sessions of Quake - an obvious incitement to
excessive violence. :-)
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