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> David wrote:
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> > The original post, though, was about how to deal with a manager who
> > didn't understand why that particular writer used the "brainstorm"
> > method rather than the "outline" method. To that manager, an early
> > snapshot of the document seemed haphazard, unorganized, and generally
> > unacceptable.
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> Understood. But my comment was aimed some recent participants in this
> thread, who seem in their own way as pedantic as that manager. Different
> strokes, I guess...
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I think the manager in question is behaving unprofessionally and I am
surprised that the person who suffers under such a manager feels he has no
choice but to leave the field of technical writing.
It's outrageous. Unless an employee has advance notice that drafts must meet
a certain standard, and advance notice that the manager may surreptitiously
read one's drafts, the employee in question has a valid and serious gripe
that I think he should take up with his manager's manager.
It is unethical to examine a document as if it were the work product without
notifying the employee that drafts are going to be so viewed.
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