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Subject:FW: deer in the headlights From:Kim Roper <kim -dot- roper -at- vitana -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 21 Feb 2002 15:20:20 -0500
Keith Cronin wonders:
> So why is it that when somebody stands behind me, looking over my
> shoulder, and asks me to do something - anything - on my computer, I
> freeze up?
...
> Is it just me, or do I have a support group out there?
It's not just you. My former VP gave me a useful caveat: "I hired you as a
writer, not a typist."
This got me out of a fair bit of clerical work. :>
Cheers ... Kim
kim.roper at vitana.com
www.pixelink.com
Clamato. Yeah, I can see that being the brainchild of a bored technical
writer. "Let's see ... 'Instructions to Make Tomato Juice' ... One: 'Throw
tomatoes in vat.' ... okay ... Two: 'Add clams.' Clams?? ... okay ..."
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