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Karen makes a valid point. Either documentation needs to be a profit center,
or it needs to be grouped with other cost centers and directed as such. For
example, where I work now, Documentation and Quality Assurance are grouped
together under "Engineering Services", which is a cost center. We don't have
a director, per se, but we do have a manager overseeing other managers
within those departments.
Bill Swallow
wswallow -at- nycap -dot- rr -dot- com
::: -----Original Message-----
::: Don't do it! In the last 2 years (plus a bit), I've seen,
::: let's see, 2
::: directors terminated in the last month, total of 5. Climb down.
:::
::: For a director, Documentation better be a profit centre (as
::: opposed to a
::: cost centre).
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