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Subject:RE: Wanted: Dumb Tech-Writer Stories From:jsmith -at- informatica -dot- com To:techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com Date:Tue, 7 Mar 2000 13:57:38 -0800
A coworker at my former company ran into an interesting situation with her
boss from a previous company. Her boss, the pubs manager, must not have
been all that much of a documentation person. Once, the doc group had a
deadline coming up and they were in a time crunch. (Surprise, surprise.)
In order to save time and effort, the manager told his employees to just
*re-use* the index from the previous version of the documentation. I think
he told them to copy and paste it.
Okay, so this is a scary story, and not a funny one...
