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It appears that you should check your local or state laws, because in the US, jurisdictions can define what standards need to be met by someone using the title of Engineer.
"Dick Margulis" <margulis -at- fiam -dot- net> wrote in message news:218021 -at- techwr-l -dot- -dot- -dot-
> I tried getting out of a
> that's-as-much-as-we-are-allowed-to-pay-tech-writers bind one time by
> arguing that I should be retitled a documentation engineer (it was a
> situation where that would have been a reasonable thing to do). The
> project manager pointed out that there are state regulations in New York
> that govern who can have "engineer" in their job title, and that
> therefore he would not be able to accommodate my request. I assume this
> varies from state to state, but it's something to keep in mind.
>
Don't laws such as those cover only jobs the do state work? If so, perhaps
that was an effective straw man erected by your former manager.
If not, perhaps we've found a new purpose for the STC.... :)
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