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Subject:A Tech Writer In Hell . From:"McMARTIN, Robert" <rmcmarti -at- BAEA -dot- COM -dot- AU> Date:Wed, 14 Oct 1998 16:32:04 +0930
Apologies to Eric for this one. Please don't compound the problem by
responding to this on the list.
Any responses please respond offline, coz I don't think I'll have Tech
Whirler posting privileges back for awhile.
> A tech writer dies and arrives in Hell, where Satan growls, "I gotta
> escort these other sinners into the pit, lady. Take a seat and wait a
> minute!"
>
> Terrified, the tech writer peeks behind a door and sees a tech writer
> agonisingly formatting 12 million lines of documentation on a flaming
> computer.
>
> Aghast, she peeks behind a second door and sees a tech writer writing
> 23 million manuals on a mountain of screen captures written by a
> shrill, egomaniacal programmer who shrieks at every line.
>
> In despair, she looks behind a third door and sees another tech writer
> like herself, chairing a never-ending meeting, munching bonbons,
> surrounded by fresh-faced admiring engineers sucking up to her with
> gifts of flowers, fresh fruit and fine wines and telling her she's a
> documentation genius.
>
> Satan returns and asks, "Well, which door, 1 or 2?"
>
> The tech writer says, "I'd like Door 3, please."
>
> "You can't have Door 3," Satan says. "That's Engineer Hell."
>
>
