Re: "Are technical writers the unsung heroes of document generation?"

[Gene Kim-Eng <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>]

Screwed in the example you proposed.  Because if Writer A and Writer B 
were being hired to write instructions for jet engines, food packaging 
equipment, heavy machinery or cake mixes, then their exempt/non-exempt 
status would be covered by Section 515 and not 515.5.

I have also successfully proposed to at least one past employer that 
writing for a $1.5M electro/mechanical/hydraulic/pneumatic robotic 
system that has a $2000 computer and software controlling it does not 
constitute being "in the computer software field" and been hired on as 
an exempt writer.

However, like you, this has not been my primary reason for avoiding 
working on software products.  Mostly, the lack of quality in conception 
and execution that I find endemic to that field just makes me want to 
climb walls.

Gene Kim-Eng



On 6/20/2015 3:27 PM, Robert Lauriston wrote: