Fw: What's a girl to do?

[wlewis -at- nclogic -dot- com (Wendy Lewis)]

Many of you agreed with Barry, I do to an extent but...
We are a 25 person, wholly owned subsidiary of NEC. The marketing guy is
new, but also a big wig at NEC. I am the lone writer at the subsidiary.

I didn't write release notes. I wrote a "What's new in 4.0" doc. His process
was to take that, add sales and distributer info, rewrite my info into the
*passive style* which is corporate standard for release notes, "you
understand" (and you would if you've seen any NEC switch manuals) -- throw
in a few pages of a document the marketing co-op wrote, also passive.
Mix liberally. Post to web site.

I had suggestions of renting a funny movie (ugh), take up kick boxing (?) or
getting drunk. I like the last one best ;-)

>From: Kieffer, Barry <Barry_Kieffer -at- adc -dot- com>
>
>>Wendy, as a sage mentor once told me: "You have to pick your battles
>>carefully".
>>
>>If you send him that "cranky-note" what will you gain?
>>
>>I would go to the marketing person and ask if they really wanted
meaningful
>>feedback. If they answered "yes" I would go over it in a very informal
>>monotone way. I would let no emotion show.
>>
>>My advice: Do nothing today, rent a really funny movie on your way home,
>>laugh your a** off tonight, and tomorrow you should look at this whole
>thing
>>differently.