Re: Marvel at my stupidity

Subject: Re: Marvel at my stupidity
From: Metzger Karen <Metzger_Karen -at- PRC -dot- COM>
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 12:39:43 -0400

Hear hear!
kcm

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brady, Joy [SMTP:JBrady -at- ALLDATA -dot- NET]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 1999 12:30 PM
> To: TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
> Subject: Re: Marvel at my stupidity
>
> 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.
>
> Joy M. Brady
> Sr. Technical Writer/Retail Systems Documentation (CAD4A)
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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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