Re: More on drafts --

Subject: Re: More on drafts --
From: "Bonnie Granat" <bgranat -at- editors-writers -dot- info>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2002 22:38:12 -0400


From: <kcronin -at- daleen -dot- com>

>
> David wrote:
>
> > The original post, though, was about how to deal with a manager who
> > didn't understand why that particular writer used the "brainstorm"
> > method rather than the "outline" method. To that manager, an early
> > snapshot of the document seemed haphazard, unorganized, and generally
> > unacceptable.
>
>
> Understood. But my comment was aimed some recent participants in this
> thread, who seem in their own way as pedantic as that manager. Different
> strokes, I guess...
>

I think the manager in question is behaving unprofessionally and I am
surprised that the person who suffers under such a manager feels he has no
choice but to leave the field of technical writing.

It's outrageous. Unless an employee has advance notice that drafts must meet
a certain standard, and advance notice that the manager may surreptitiously
read one's drafts, the employee in question has a valid and serious gripe
that I think he should take up with his manager's manager.

It is unethical to examine a document as if it were the work product without
notifying the employee that drafts are going to be so viewed.

It really *is* a question of ethics, to me.

Bonnie Granat
http://www.editors-writers.info







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