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At one gig we were saddled with the title "Performance Improvement
Specialists" (yea, like how long did it take those high-paying suit types to
sit around and thing >>THAT<< one up?) as everything that we developed, be
it writing or training, was designed to improve the end-user's performance.
And, when we rattled off that title to the recipients of our work and
received the to be expected slacked-jawed/glassy-eyed/deer in the headlights
look we just quickly followed it with "you know - writers and trainers" and
the light bulb of recognition would go on! If aint' broke . . .
TVB
Tammy Van Boening
Owner/Principal
Spectrum Writing, LLC
www.spectrumwritingllc.com
info -at- spectrumwritingllc -dot- com
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Behalf Of Combs, Richard
Sent: Sunday, February 21, 2010 3:17 PM
To: Janice Gelb; TECHWR-L
Subject: RE: Naming a department
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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303-777-0436
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