Re: What does a Tech Writer do? (Tech writing, publicity in US)

Subject: Re: What does a Tech Writer do? (Tech writing, publicity in US)
From: Laura Johnson <lauraj -at- CND -dot- HP -dot- COM>
Date: Wed, 7 Sep 1994 17:26:34 GMT

Julie Barker (julie -at- harston -dot- cv -dot- com) wrote:
: Reactions to revealing my status as a Tech Writer
: -------------------------------------------------

: Q: So what do you do?
: A: I write manuals that tell people how to use computer
: programs. <Bright smile>. Deep breath.


Here's the one I like:
"Oh, hey, maybe you can help me then. At work sometimes when I run the
flibbertigibbet word processor and then I connect to stimpy to run
SPSS, I don't get the Q: prompt and then I have to reconfigure the
scumble. What do you think is wrong?"

(Further investigation reveals that speaker is using a PC and proprietary
software to access a campus mainframe, which runs an obscure 70's-era OS.)

--
Laura Johnson * lauraj -at- fc -dot- hp -dot- com * Hewlett Packard NSMD * Ft. Collins, CO

"You have to remember that American publishers believe that their readers
are Spam-sucking trailer trash who'll buy whatever's shoved on the stand at
the local store, and it embarrasses them when they take an interest."
- Terry Pratchett


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