Re: Being Resourceful

Subject: Re: Being Resourceful
From: Bruce Byfield <bbyfield -at- axionet -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 12:33:31 -0700

Jane Carnall wrote:

> This is why I think that it's always a good move for the technical writer
> (whatever team they're nominally part of) to be sitting where the developers
> are sitting.

Sometimes, even that's not enough. I was at one job for three days
before I realized that the developers were doing all their talking via
e-mail. And if you're at a company where developers are allowed to keep
irregular hours, even less work is likely to be done verbally.

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Bruce Byfield 604.421.7177 bbyfield -at- axionet -dot- com

"I just hope that I don't die
Before the harvest comes."
-Si Kahn, "Mississippi Summer"

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