atw: Re: buzz word de jour

MG,
I laughed so hard I nearly choked.  Replies like yours should come with a 
warning/disclaimer or reasonable facsimile.
BTW, did I mention that this is a part-time (20-hr week) short term (6 
month) position ? The wage has not been discussed.
Sad thing is, this is a step-up from a prior posting for a "tech writer", 
who job duties, in addition to producing all the tech manuals,  marketing 
collateral and internal newsletters, included making the coffee, answering 
the phones, and playing hostess to all the business meetings. All for 
$12.00 hr.  What a deal. God bless America and the <thriving> economy.
Mary

At 06:30 PM 3/14/2005, you wrote:
>Well Mary (H.T.)
>
>Here goes, in line, with no offence intended:
>
>At 11:02 15/3/2005, you wrote:
> >Anyone care to take a stab at translating the following:
>
>Sure:
>
> >A local consulting firm
>
>A small, privately owned company (note the use of "firm" rather than
>"organization") which subcontracts everything out to its customers because
>it only classes its bosses and its receptionist as "staff", which is local
>to an
>area inhabited by your recruitment agent:
>
> >providing system consulting, design and maintenance
> >solution services to organizations seeking to outsource their technology 
> needs
>
>Fixing major in-house IT stuff-ups and disasters on legacy systems, left by
>other consulting companies and unidentified roving programmers, which
>nobody else can now decipher or unravel.
>
> >is looking to add to their project team.
>
>They are stuck out at a client site on a time and materials project, in which
>they have just discovered to their horror that they didn't scope their
>involvement properly, so they are running way over time and budget, with
>their collective head on the chopping block and need someone to work day
>and night to do a quick clean up and text dump from old manuals, which
>they hope that nobody will actually read, just to produce the required
>"documentation" by an absurd deadline.
>
>Might not have even written a requirements spec yet.
>
>Bring slippers, a pillow, a thermos and several cut lunches.
>
> >Experience within the
> >consulting industry and knowledge of voice and data networks, a plus.
>
>Our network is unreliable, all of the voice prompts on our IVR system have
>defaulted to Lithuanian and our Telstra FemBot is on strike.
>
>We want you to be a business analyst and a programmer as well but don't
>actually want to pay you for it.
>
>Only people with multiple personality disorder and completely fabricated
>resumes that include every computing skill in the known universe need apply.
>
>We will smile and nod knowingly at your fabulous portfolio, wanting
>exemplary work, then have you forget everything you have ever done and
>just produce wads of unusable text to meet absurd time constraints.
>
>Of course, I could be wrong ;-)
>
>Sounds wonderful, Mary.  Go for it but, whatever you do, charge an hourly
>not a day rate or they will have you there all hours at no extra cost to them.
>
>Cynical, moi?
>
>HTH.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Micky G.
>
>
>Michael E. Granat
>Qualified Good Tech Writer Dude
>Fellowship Of The Ring Of Tech Writers, Yeah Baby!
>T/as Write Ideas
>E-mail: mailto:writeideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Web: <http://home.pacific.net.au/~megranat/>
>Without Prejudice.
>E&OE.


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