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Subject:Meaningless Title contest From:"Clark, Robert" <Robert -dot- Clark -at- SCHWAB -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 7 Jan 1999 11:29:26 -0800
To reply to Martha Davidson's challenge
A challenge! A prize to the person who creates the most meaningless title!
How about these entries? Advance apologies to those who have these
ambiguous titles.
Administrative Assistant (that's worth a few flames)
Information Documentation Clarification Designer
Director of Customer Communications Publications
Senior Lead Engineering Department Spell Checker-Editor and Formatter
Managing Director of Information Dissemination
Product Documentation Developer
That guy/girl in the really small cube who knows FrameMaker cold
Desktop Publisher
Headhunter (oops, that one slipped in)
Information and Product Documentation Dude (or Dudette)
Information Architect
Engineering School Dropout
User Documentation Specialist
QA Support Writer
Customer Support Writer
Engineering Department Writer
Does anyone see a pattern here, oh much maligned writers of technical
materials?
No matter what you call us, we are and continue to be valuable contributors
to the customer experience.
Let's move on shall we?
