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Subject:Re: best self-teaching materials From:Barry Kieffer <bkieffer -at- ims -dot- com> To:techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com Date:Thu, 12 Oct 2000 09:27:32 -0700 (PDT)
Good points John. Let me also add...
> From: John Posada <jposada01 -at- yahoo -dot- com>
> What may be missing is:
> 1) One has 10 years seniority over the other.
I think it is great that the "Lifers" get the perks. Show you loyalty to a
company by digging in your heals, building moats and walls, and staying with
that company until they kick you out, and you get rewarded with perks.
> 2) One is an employee and one is a contractor.
> 3) One may be a supv or dept lead and the other not.
Good points.
> 4) The conference may be specific to the purpose of the other
> writter. I do help, someone else does documentation. The conf is on
> online help.
Nope. You got this one wrong my friend. The poster specifically said that one
was being sent and the other had to learn on their own.
> 5) The company is small, there is limited $$, the next turn will be
> the other writter.
Yeah, like that ever happens. Oh, Frankie, you can go next time...
> If you were able to answer all these questions from the post, you're
> a better man than I am, Charlie Brown.
I accept my superior place with humbleness. <grin> Oh, and I am not Charlie
Brown, never even found that comic strip to be funny.
