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Your colleague seems to be a person whose opinion can be safely ignored.
I have not experienced that attitude.
I feel that it's up to you to prove your worth. As a TA you are in a
unique position:
- You are a grammatical expert.
- You are continuously looking at the product from an end user's
perspective.
Make sure that you contribute to these areas of the product:
- The User Interface - writing about the user interface quickly
identifies where it doesn't work, where it isn't consistent, and where
the grammar used is less than perfect.
- Error Messages - can be painful if left to some engineers. Make sure
you review them.
- Bug Reporting and Enhancements - don't document around the short
comings of a product, get the product changed.
Be proactive and make a difference. Make that colleague eat her words.
