Re: Hey! She messed with *my* manual

Subject: Re: Hey! She messed with *my* manual
From: Mike Starr <mikestarr-techwr-l -at- writestarr -dot- com>
To: TECHWR-L Writing <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 22:54:36 -0500

<a. plato mode>We don't *own* the documents we create. Work on whatever you're assigned to work on and do the best you can on that. Get over it.</a. plato mode>

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Downing, David wrote:
> I was wondering whether anybody else here ever had the same reaction I just had in a similar situation.
>
> Our document set includes several manuals that I originally wrote, that have been around for many years, and that I have always revised when required. Well this time around, someone else in the documentation department was called upon to revise one of these manuals. Since it was one of mine, I offered to assist her if need be. But I just found out at today's departmental meeting that she was able to make the revisions without any consultation from me.
>
> Now I realize that when you work for a company, as part of a documentation department, no one person in the department owns a manual, and furthermore, I've made revisions to other manuals that I didn't originally write. But nevertheless, I found it rather disconcerting to have someone revising one of "my" manuals.
>
> Is that a feeling anybody else has had?
>
> David Downing
> Senior Technical Writer
> Credit Union Solutions
> Fiserv
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