Responsibility for work?

Subject: Responsibility for work?
From: Bruce Byfield <bbyfield -at- AXIONET -dot- COM>
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 18:54:46 -0400

"Taylor, Steve" <steve -dot- taylor -at- ALLEGIANCETELECOM -dot- COM> wrote:

>I may be wrong here, but I would have an entry-level tech writer certainly
>take responsibility for his or her work. I just wouldn't expect it to be at
>my level (yet).

Well, I certainly would expect an entry level writer to write as best
they could in the time allowed, and arrange their own work day most of
the time.
The best supervision is the least supervision, so far as I'm concerned.

However, what I meant was that I wouldn't expect an entry level writer
to make final decisions about planning or sign-off work, or anything
like that (although I would certainly consult them).

At some companies, entry level writers wouldn't even help to develop an
outline for the sections they write. But I wouldn't work for such
companies
when I was entry level, and I doubt I'd work for one now.

--
Bruce Byfield, Outlaw Communications
Co-ordinator ,Vancouver Technical Communicators' Co-op List
Vancouver, BC, Canada
(604) 421-7189 or 687-2133
bbyfield -at- axionet,com or bruce -at- dataphile-ca -dot- com
www.outlawcommunications.com (update 8 June, 1998)

"As we pull in tight to shore, this armada bent on rescue,
I could curse the men behind the desks who spend our lives this way,
I never signed on board to save them from this bloody lack of planning,
That strands these fine young men beneath the fires of Calais."
- James Keelaghan




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