RE: My doc was too good

["Joe Malin" <jmalin -at- tuvox -dot- com>]

My immediate reaction is:

* no good deed goes unpunished
* you're locked in a room with a ravenous alligator, a great white
shark, a python, and a 
  marketing person. You have a gun with only two bullets. What do you
do?
  You shoot the marketing person twice.

  And I've *worked* in marketing. Never again.

Joe

Joe Malin
Technical Writer
(408)625-1623
jmalin -at- tuvox -dot- com 
www.tuvox.com
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Subject: My doc was too good


Well, fellow Whirlers, it's finally happened.  One of my documents was
'buked and scorned for being "too good and too polished."

Before you reply with one of the many possible variants of "why didn't
you ask about the requirements" and "Nothing is good or bad in itself,
it depends on the need" and so on, let me say that I wrote exactly what
MY manager wanted and asked for.

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