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Re: Expectations (possible rant - it IS Friday!)

Subject: Re: Expectations (possible rant - it IS Friday!)
From: Bruce Byfield <bbyfield -at- axionet -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 19:14:05 -0800


Peter Neilson wrote:

The QA folks can have it much worse.

You're right. I've seen several companies where QA is like a dead chicken waved in a vaguely placatory way in the general direction of a mythical ideal development process, and its members haven't been allowed to do their work with any thoroughness.

Tech-writers may have to regularly settle for producing less than ideal documents, but they don't face a total outrage of their professional standards nearly as often as QA people.

Frankly, QA work is like being a high school teacher - it's a job that no amount of pay would make me take on. By contrast, I could conceivably work again as a technical writer one day.

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References:
Expectations (possible rant - it IS Friday!): From: Robyn Richards
Re: Expectations (possible rant - it IS Friday!): From: Bruce Byfield
Re: Expectations (possible rant - it IS Friday!): From: Peter Neilson

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