atw: Re: Tech Writing Soap Box

Allan,

Very good point.  I think I'd prefer a good coffee to a software manual 
anyday! :)

- Naomi

> Mary's job ad is wonderful.
> I'm sure that "Create training manuals" most likely means photocopying
> manual pages and assembling them in a folder, not writing them.  But
> even so, it puts an important publishing task only slightly above the
> making of coffee and tidying the kitchen.
> 
> I'm left pondering the relative importance of coffee.
> If a manual has some pages the wrong way around it's easily fixed, but
> if the coffee is badly made it ruins the whole day.  Shouldn't the
> making of coffee be at the *top* of the list?
> 
> <grin>
> 
> Allan
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