RE: Writing Corrective Actions for customers?

["Combs, Richard" <richard -dot- combs -at- Polycom -dot- com>]

Ned Bedinger wrote: 
 
<snip> for most months of the year the work was in wild places, and 
> most days had that characteristic wild place lack of walls, 
> roofs, and break rooms! Having a technical base of a ship or 
> seafarm is great, being outside is great, and I guess any 
> jaundiced perceptions of the office park and the controls I 
> work under there just naturally follow.

Never worked outdoors, except for some menial temp jobs. But I used to
do a fair amount of wilderness backpacking (often solo, and often to
decompress from work), so I think I understand how you feel.
 
<snip> that it isn't hormones that make we this way. I suspect it 
> has to do with my being raised by wolves--the wolf milk made 
> me growly. I think it's good ("builds character"), but not 
> the fact that most offices I've worked in don't accomodate my 
> quasi-lycanthropic proclivities it very well. I have to wear 
> a shirt that says "Don't shoot--I can write!"

Raised by wolves? Why, then you should be by nature a pack animal, and a
perfect fit for the cube farm! Just determine who the alpha male is, lie
on your back, and expose your underbelly. Everything will be fine after
that. ;-)

Richard


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Richard G. Combs
Senior Technical Writer
Polycom, Inc.
richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom
303-223-5111
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rgcombs AT gmailDOTcom
303-777-0436
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