Re: Marvel at my stupidity

["Brady, Joy" <JBrady -at- ALLDATA -dot- NET>]

                Take heart, Andrew. Email calls for hasty writing!
Especially with 30-40 messages during our work day (a sentence fragment -
please shoot me). Most of us realize this, and know to comment on the point
being made, not the spelling in this forum. I vow never, ever to correct
someone's spelling or grammar on this list, unless it's regarding the actual
topic.

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                                From:  Andrew Plato
[SMTP:intrepid_es -at- YAHOO -dot- COM]
                                Sent:  Tuesday, August 24, 1999 12:18
                                To:  TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
                                Subject:  Marvel at my stupidity

                        See what an idiot I am - I can't even spell prima
donna. Sorry you can all stop
                        telling me how to spell this now.  I am stupid. I am
a loser. I am unworthy of
                        licking the boot of a janitor. You have all
enlightened me.  I am whole again.

                        Which affords me another reflection.

                        Why are some people obsessed with perfection?

                        I worked for this guy once a few years back who
would turn red and scream at me
                        if there were more than one or two errors in my
draft documents.  I tried to
                        tell him that it was impossible to write a long,
complex technical document
                        without needing some editing. Sheesh, I'm not
perfect.

                        Nevertheless, he yelled that GOOD technical writers
should NEVER make spelling
                        mistakes or grammatically errors. Talk about a prima
donna.

                        I don't know about the rest of you but there is a
reason editors were invented.
                         Perfection is impossible.

                        I am so glad I own my own company now.  At least now
the jerk I work for is
                        pretty forgiving of me. I hated working for
incompetent managers.  Why does it
                        seem like every third manager is a raging moron
machine? As if the universe was
                        specially formulated just for them to torture the
little people.  I think STC
                        is behind this.  It is probably some really complex
global conspiracy.  It
                        always is.

                        :-)

                        Back to the grind.

                        Andrew

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