RE: Certification: Ernest and Scribbler

["McLauchlan, Kevin" <Kevin -dot- McLauchlan -at- safenet-inc -dot- com>]

Peter Neilson wrote:
> 
> Kevin McLauchlan wrote:
> 
> > credential.  Maybe there wouldn't be a specific law that 
> > says it's outright illegal, but there come to be official 
> > stances and practices that say "if you hired somebody 
> > without the correct alphabet soup following their names, 
> > and something goes wrong, you are uninsured and wide open 
> > to negligence lawsuits (because after all, the XYZ 
> > credential is now the minimum standard, is it not)?" 
> 
> So now's the time for me to establish the ASTW, the TWO, the OTW, the 
> TWCS, and three or four dozen other membership and 
> certification bodies. 
> At least two or three of them will catch hold and stick, and 
> get in with 
> Obama's yet-to-be-created National Technical Writer's 
> Authority*, and I 
> (rather than or in addition to the STC) can be in charge of my 
> certification.
> 
> (* Yes, National Technical Writer's Authority. Because 
> Writer's is the 
> plural of Writer, see? That's how plural's work.)
> 
> -Peter (I'll be certifiable yet) Neilson

I read two possibilities into that:

Either

a) you are politically cunning and thus a good man 
to know for career advancement purposes 

or

b) you are horridly cynical. 

Either way, next time you are in Ottawa, I'm buyin' you a beer. 


 - Kevin


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