RE: Tech writers are the new accountants

["Cardimon, Craig" <ccardimon -at- M-S-G -dot- com>]

> This week's episode of TV medical drama House features a recluse who
has
> unexplained seizures. He suffers from crippling agoraphobia and
refuses
> to leave his home to be diagnosed and treated. He believes he's OK the
> way he is because he can get everything he needs delivered, and you
> know, *he writes technical manuals for a living*.
> 
> Possibly this guy could get some life coaching from the protagonist of
> 2003 movie The Technical Writer, "... a chain smoking agorophobe who
> lives in abject squallor," who has "terrible personal hygeine" and who
> "would be happy to live his life in his basement apartment except for
> the crazy people who keep forcing him to respond to their own neurotic
> desires."

Looks like we technical writers get the *beat down* once again, eh?

As Rodney Dangerfield would say, "We don't get no respect."
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