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Re: What do you want to be called? (less serious)

Subject: Re: What do you want to be called? (less serious)
From: Dan Roberts <DRoberts -at- ISOGON -dot- COM>
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 09:31:03 -0400

at a previous employer, i worked with several women on a large document set. Some of the more - um, ahem - *carefree* of them referred to themselves at the "EDA babes" and "EDA chicks" (ala biker babes and biker chicks). The only response I could come up with was "You go, grrrlll!"

Dan Roberts
droberts -at- isogon -dot- com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Gembey [mailto:bob -at- SUPERNOVA -dot- NL]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 1999 2:05 AM
> To: TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
> Subject: Re: What do you want to be called? (less serious)
>
>
> At one company, my business card said
> "Manager of Manuals and Technical Documentation" -- I called
> myself the
> "Man Man"; when I left, my replacement was a woman.  I never found out
> what she called herself. :-)
>
> Bob Gembey
>
> >
> > At 06:42 PM 8/16/99 -0700, Cheryle W wrote:
> > >Although I've been known to refer to myself as a
> Documentation Goddess or
> > >Word Monkey I prefer plain ol' Technical Writer.
> > >Technical Communicator sounds too darn ... well ...
> Dilberty for my taste.
> > >:)
> > >
>
>
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