RE: employment law, overtime

["Dan Goldstein" <DGoldstein -at- riverainmedical -dot- com>]

I'm not worried about STC, BLS, or any other TLA. I think that most
employers who have previously hired a professional technical writer can
tell the difference. And if they can't, why would you want to work
there?

-- Dan Goldstein (exempt)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gene Kim-Eng
> Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 11:03 AM
> To: TECHWR-L
> Subject: Re: employment law, overtime
> 
> They're probably working on the view that writers, 
> technical or otherwise, are doing work that can be 
> standardized and taught to low-wage employees 
> without advanced education who work under direct 
> supervision, such as secretarial/admin, clerical 
> or DTP workers, rather than professionals with 
> advanced education and skills who design, invent 
> and/or manage as an integral part of their typical 
> work functions. You can probably expect to see 
> more of this sort of thing now that even the STC 
> has thrown in the towel and adopted the BLS 
> definitions and statistics for technical writers 
> instead of leading the charge to promote a higher 
> view of technical writing as professionals rather 
> than "glorified secretaries."
> 

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