Re: Not Technical Enough

["Ed Hanson" <edhanson -at- uswest -dot- net>]

Mike,

While I agree with you in principle, that that is how things should happen,
I have seen enough of corporate bungling to know that decisions like who
they keep and who they let go are rarely based on sound logical, rational
thinking.

Ed Hanson



|Thanks for condescending... not too many people on this list will do so,
|and I've recently felt a lack.
|
|Your "prediction" is based on exactly what, that happened in the past?
|Has there been some wholesale purge of tech. writers I haven't noticed in
|15 years in the industry?
|
|I do recall that, around a decade ago, there was a general series of
|"company downsizing" that resulted in both talented and untalented people
|being on the street. The talented got new jobs, and the untalented
|changed careers, I'd assume, or waited until the next shortage of writers
|and hopped in again.
|
|Your "anecdotal evidence" that people with majors in English are somehow
|the first ones up against the wall when the revolution comes lacks any
|citations (can you provide some?) and smacks of misguided elitism. Your
|privilege, of course, but in the end, this will be true:
|
|Good writers will keep their jobs, or get new ones quickly. Bad writers
|won't.
|
|That's always the situation when layoffs hit, and it is likely to
|continue that way. Any attempts to describe which educational background
|constitutes the "good writers" should be backed up in facts.
|
|Have a superior day,
|----->Mike
|