RE: Senior/junior level technical writing

[John Posada <JPosada -at- book -dot- com>]

Lisa...I solved THAT problem by including the company CTO (800 pound gorilla
who assigned me to this assignment) in the CC line of the third request
email that I sent to the developer who was particularly uncooperative.

Sometimes ya get to discuss animation movies and sometimes you get to have
virtual batting practice on the developer's head. They both work...just a
matter of knowing your audience.

>power struggle, but that was with a
>particularly cocky "senior" programmer
>who was dismissive of my input until
>forced to understand that I was a 
>peer and was supposed to have input.)


John Posada
Senior Technical Writer
Barnes&Noble.com
jposada -at- book -dot- com
NY: 212-414-6656
Dayton: 732-438-3372
"Alright, nobody move! I've got a dragon here, and I'm not afraid to use it"
---------- Donkey

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