OK, our web developer put it up on YouTube, so it’s not my fault. I won’t identify the whole team here, but I’m the last person on the far left. We’re missing about three team members here (they’re hard at work in the adjoining room), but these are the folks I spend my day with, […]
… than freaking out about the recovery of a completely fucked corrupted file at eleven o’clock at night when you have to be up at 6am the next day to present four hours worth of breakout sessions at a franchise convention. Yuuuuummmmmmmmmmmy.
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We’re working with a new software program here, and I’m reading through the technical how-to material that was sent to us by the software creator. There are typos, certainly, which I find even more annoying now that I do this for a living, but what stopped me in my tracks was this: “Help – Takes
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First impressions and assumptions (from here): The family picture is on his deskAh, a solid, responsible manThe family picture is on her deskUm, her family will come before her career His desk is clutteredHe’s obviously a hard worker and a busy manHer desk is clutteredShe’s obviously a disorganised scatterbrain He is talking with his co-workersHe
… than spilling coffee all over yourself first thing in the morning. I will now reek of coffee all damn day.
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The IT boys have decided they should just call me Tina… Tina the Tech Writer: She’s the technical writer in Dilbert’s engineering department. Tina believes any conversation within hearing distance is intended as an insult to her profession and her gender. She strives to maintain her dignity while surrounded by engineers who don’t have a
One of the hardest parts about writing professionally; that is, writing in the corporate world, is letting go of things you know you could do better if you just had more time. Deadlines come hard and fast. You often don’t have enough information to work with (and sometimes you’re just making up filler with no
… or, rather, I knew *somebody* at work had found the blog a couple of weeks ago because I found a second IP address sharing the same ISP as my my work IP. I waited around a bit for somebody to say something, but nobody did, so I shrugged it off. I mean, dude, I
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As of tomorrow at 8:00 am, I will officially be an employee of the financial services company downtown, working (officially!) as a document, technical, and copywriter. Benefits start first day. I’m not allowed to disclose how much I make according to the Employee Handbook or I’ll be fired, but I’ll say it’s more than I