Re: "Are technical writers the unsung heroes of document generation?"

[Lin Sims <ljsims -dot- ml -at- gmail -dot- com>]

Depends on where you work, though. The writers at the company I'm working
at have been putting in unpaid overtime (exempt, all of us) for *years*. We
simply don't have enough people to do the work being demanded, and we're
not going to get them, either. Lot of documents going out that were written
by the engineers. It's sad.

On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 4:20 PM, Gene Kim-Eng <techwr -at- genek -dot- com> wrote:

> It's been FIFTEEN years since the code was enacted and FIVE years since
> the Sun lawsuit was finally settled. And probably about ten years since the
> last time there was enough of a tech boom for writers to be putting in much
> overtime. You've already seen all the impact you're ever going to see.
>
> And that's my last word on it.  Let's check back in five years to see what
> happened.  If we even remember that anything ever did.
>
> Gene Kim-Eng
>
>
>
> On 6/24/2015 12:39 PM, Janoff, Steven wrote:
>
>>
>> Give it a year or two or three.
>>
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