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Subject:RE: Using "Fences" as File Management Tool? From:"Wright, Lynne" <Lynne -dot- Wright -at- Kronos -dot- com> To:Emoto <emoto1 -at- gmail -dot- com> Date:Wed, 1 Nov 2017 19:40:35 +0000
Oh boy... then you're likely in for a long, frustrating ride.
Not that she doesn't have the potential to learn, but it sounds like she's already way in over her head.
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On Wed, Nov 1, 2017 at 11:20 AM, Wright, Lynne <Lynne -dot- Wright -at- kronos -dot- com> wrote:
> Except i don't think he DID hire her... he just said she was an internal hire that was added to the tech writing team, and that he's trying to train her.
Correct. Not my hire.
> Now I'm wondering about all kinds of things that aren't clear about this situation... was he assigned to be her mentor/trainer? Or did he just take it upon himself to tell her how to do her job?
I am assigned as both mentor and trainer.
> And IS she a complete novice, or did she take some kind of tech writing courses to qualify for the position? Because maybe you're right... maybe she's actually capable, with some fresh and useful ideas. In any case, while she needs to follow whatever protocols are in place for backups of work-in-progress and the storage of final docs, its her business how she chooses to manage her local files.
Novice. I think her comfort zone is with Fences and that Windows Explorer and the concept of a folder tree structure are outside her comfort zone.
Bob
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