Re: R-E-S-P-E-C-T me! (Please!) -- Was RE: Gnaargh! Or, I Am Not Psychic

["Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>]

Frankly, my response to this at this point in my life is,
"screw this."  If I am told when considering a job that part of
my work is going to involve being  an "evangelist" for tech
pubs and selling the organization on the value of delivering
its product with good documentation (and yes, I do ask), my
response is "thanks, but no thanks."  If an organization has
already made that connection and the question is "how do we
get good documentation?" then and only then do we have a
basis for a conversation about what I think we'll need to do
and whether they're willing to go the distance to make it
happen.  As a manager, my message to my team is "here is
what I want you to do, if anyone gets in your way come see
me and I will move them."  I expect exactly the same level
of support from my own manager, because without it I can't
provide it to my people, and if I don't get it, a parting of the
ways is inevitable.  Respect in a working organization is not
given, it is expected and demanded, and if there is any question
on the part of your higher-ups as to whether you have the
chops to have "earned it," they shouldn't have offered you the
job in the first place.

Gene Kim-Eng


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dick Margulis" <margulisd -at- comcast -dot- net>