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Subject:FWD: New Employee Problems with Management From:"Eric J. Ray" <ejray -at- RAYCOMM -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 8 Oct 1997 09:24:18 -0600
Response forwarded anonymously on request. Eric
>Sometimes these situations do work themselves out. When I went to work for
>my current company, my boss was a project manager who knew nothing about
>writing; documentation to her was a slightly higher priority than making
>the coffee, but not much. "Nobody who's worth communicating with reads the
>documentation anyway" attitude. I told a co-worker at the time that I
>would give it six months before starting to jobhunt again, since in our
>company we tend to get shuffled around fairly frequently. Sure enough, she
>got assigned to another project and I was given a new boss. At the same
>time, as a bonus, we were reorganized into new teams and a writing team was
>finally created.
>
>So if you're in the sort of company where reorganizations and shufflings
>tend to occur pretty frequently, it might be worth sitting tight for a
>while and seeing how things sift out, if you like the rest of your work.
>
>This woman is working in an exciting new area in our company and actually
>will be hiring another tech writer soon, with a more editorial focus--I
>would enjoy that, but there's no way I would work for her again.
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