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Subject:Re: "If the docs are too good..." From:"Michael West" <mbwest -at- Remove -dot- bigpond -dot- com> To:techwr-l Date:Mon, 9 Feb 2004 00:05:39 +1100
<technical -at- theverbalist -dot- com> wrote in message news:227937 -at- techwr-l -dot- -dot- -dot-
>
> Well, it's Friday and y'all are being too serious. Here's something to
> have some fun with ...
>
> So an SME I was talking to floated the ol' air biscuit that he "was told
> by someone who'd been told that if the product docs were too good, that
> clients wouldn't purchase the training." Any suggestions for snappy
> come-backs to that one?
Me, I'd say, "If I thought that was this company's attitude
toward its customers, I wouldn't have come to work here."
