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Subject:Re: This too is technical communication From:Emily Berk <emily -at- armadillosoft -dot- com> To:<techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Thu, 07 Jun 2007 22:51:29 -0700
For the moment, the position I occupy at my current company is "writer of the stuff no one else can figure out how to write".
It's not a bad position to be in.
-- Emily
At 12:59 PM 6/7/2007 -0700, Gene Kim-Eng wrote:
>I would say your situation in this company was the functional equivalent
>of "you don't have time for me to come up to speed..." except that in
>your case it apparently ended up becoming your norm (not unusual in
>the "pool" form of matrix organization). And you weren't in situations where you "understood just about nothing" about the subject matter.
>
>Gene Kim-Eng
>
>
>----- Original Message ----- From: "Ned Bedinger" <doc -at- edwordsmith -dot- com>
>
>>There's a lesson for tech writing management in this--I don't mind being pushed from the plane, but I can't learn to fly in the short time it will take me to freefall and crater, so we'll all be happier if you give me a parachute. That initial meeting with the project managers was the parachute. I'd have been in the spin cycle for weeks on every project without it.
>
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