Re: Horrible Situation

Subject: Re: Horrible Situation
From: Chuck Martin <cm -at- writeforyou -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 11:06:12 -0800


Tech Comm.... wrote:

Hai Paul

Thanks for your suggestions I find some solace in your mail.

After all people were picturing I am wrong, see first of all I am a
fresh Tech Writer .

So I dont know the in and out of the trade especially in TW field. So
I came very blank to Software industry so I was carried away by my
Project Lead's plan, where I dont know how to deal.

Anyhow this will serve as a lesson for me to take guard in my future endeavors.


Reading over the original post, and then this one, my impression ("fresh Tech Writer," "don't know the ins and outs of the trade") is of someone who has zero experience and zero training in the discipline, yet who has attached a title, who has gotten themselves into a situation where some minimal level of industry competence is required, and who now expects those who have that competence to bail them out.

The lesson here is to speak truth to power, to tell your Project Lead the truth about your capabilities, and that the real solution is to give the job to someone with the appropriate training and experience.

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