Re: Expectations (possible rant - it IS Friday!)

Subject: Re: Expectations (possible rant - it IS Friday!)
From: Peter Neilson <neilson -at- alltel -dot- net>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 21:51:23 -0500


On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 18:21:15 -0800, Bruce Byfield <bbyfield -at- axionet -dot- com> wrote:

Few [managers] have the time or inclination to learn much about
the job - any more than they do to learn about programming or
quality assurance.

The QA folks can have it much worse. My wife's not the only QA
person to have been fired (or cornered into quitting) for refusing
to sign off on material not meeting specs, where the signature
carries a genuine legal liability. At one job she could not
claim, for instance, that she signed in ignorance of the specs,
because she was the author of the FDA specs! She was fired for
refusal to obey a direct order to approve the out-of-spec material.
Had she passed it, a subsequent FDA inspection would have ended
her career or sent her to jail. (The person who fired her was
later fired.)

We tech writers are merely at fault for not being omniscient, and
are not usually asked to guarantee that bad is good.

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References:
Expectations (possible rant - it IS Friday!): From: Robyn Richards
Re: Expectations (possible rant - it IS Friday!): From: Bruce Byfield

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