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Subject:RE: A sobering encounter From:craig -dot- cardimon -at- att -dot- net To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Mon, 02 Dec 2002 19:56:17 +0000
Back when Web fever was running high, there was talk of training blue-collar
workers to do programming. The prevailing attitude was "Anyone can do it, it's
only programming."
Funny how no one ever says that about doctors, lawyers, or police.
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> "He shook his head, saying, "We got rid of them all. All they do is write.
> Anyone can do that."
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> Man, I HOPE that is not the prevailing attitude, although it seems to be so in
> more than one workplace. Here, they are training Clerks and Documentation
> Specialists to do the Tech Writing. This IS disturbing.
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> I do believe though, that that attitude will come back and bite them in the butt
> someday when it comes to quality of the documentation.
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> Tom Green
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