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Subject:RE: Naming a department From:"Combs, Richard" <richard -dot- combs -at- Polycom -dot- com> To:"Janice Gelb" <Janice -dot- Gelb -at- Sun -dot- COM>, "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Sun, 21 Feb 2010 15:17:25 -0700
Janice Gelb wrote:
> Years ago, I was working on a joint project with
> Hewlett-Packard and the technical writers in that
> group were called "Learning Products Engineers"
> because they said they wouldn't get any respect
> from the programmers unless they were called
> engineers too!
Look how well that worked out for "sanitation engineers." ;-)
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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