Time for a reality check folks. Is it any wonder that so few job opportunities are posted on this list? So often it is the case that, when an opportunity is posted, the omniscient ones take it upon themselves to pick apart the grammar, the terminology, the rate/salary or some other aspect of the post: From: "nigeldawes" <nigel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >team are Senior Technical Writer? ...Yikes, Kirsty! From: "Brian Clarke" <brianclarke01@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> What's wrong with getting it right? From: fullpwr@xxxxxxxxxx I just have one word to say on this, albeit with gritted teeth: "preventative". I don't use it myself, but I fear I'm going to have to accept it from others.... From: "BJA" <bashley@xxxxxxxxxxx> If we don't protect the gates, who will? From: Stuart Burnfield <sburnf@xxxxxxxxxxx> To be fair to the folks at Mincom, in the next sentence they go on to restore balance to the Force: > Full details of the job ad is available ... > The Mincom LinkOne team are looking for an outstanding individual > ... (I don't know the salary they are wanting to offer) Presumably an outstanding one! From: SUNTER Bede <Bede_SUNTER@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> The *real* problem is in "details of the job ad is available". Subject-verb agreement. This is got wrong so commonly these days that I can see it becoming accepted as correct in the near future. But until then, there's no argument: it ain't the Queen's English. By and large, job ads aren't written by tech writers. Get over it. And not surprisingly, job offers don't suggest salaries/rates that sound all that appealing. If you like the sound of the job but not the salary/rate, negotiate for more. If you don't like the sound of either, look elsewhere. What I have to say to Kirsty is, thank you for taking the initiative to make known to Austechwriter this opportunity at Mincom with a team other than your own. My impression is you didn't write the copy you posted. I imagine you didn't have time to proof-read it either. Perhaps you even thought it presumptuous or tactless to edit someone else's copy. Almost certainly, getting hold of it and posting it for our benefit took up time that you might have spent on tasks more important to yourself and your team. Mincom. The People. The Experience. The Vision. Austechwriter. The Pedants. The Immaturity. The Pettiness. Peter Fagan IntraDoc Pty Ltd ************************************************** To post a message to austechwriter, send the message to austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx To subscribe to austechwriter, send a message to austechwriter-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "subscribe" in the Subject field. To unsubscribe, send a message to austechwriter-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe" in the Subject field. To search the austechwriter archives, go to www.freelists.org/archives/austechwriter To contact the list administrator, send a message to austechwriter-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx **************************************************