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Subject:Re: Not given work we *are* qualified for From:Wayne Douglass <wayned -at- VERITY -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 23 Apr 1998 10:58:39 -0700
At 05:25 PM 4/23/98 +0800, Stuart Burnfield wrote:
>My boss could see that "something like it" would help every project.
>But he couldn't see it as a task for a writer. If it was a technical
>writer's document, it couldn't be a software development document. If
>it was a software development document, surely it shouldn't be written
>by a technical writer?
The technical term for this syndrome is "trained incapacity," more popularly
known as "the Dilbertization of American enterprise."
--Wayne
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