I'm not saying you *have* to be in the office to be successful, but I
*am* saying that you also should not underrate the value and importance
of at least occasional face time. I worked for a few years for one
company totally on a telecommuting basis, and I was quite successful at
it. No problem.
A former boss of mine (oh, how I hate to call him a boss since he had NO idea
of how and what I did) was a dedicated member of the youre not typing /
youre not working school of thought.
The guy (a VP, no less) was gone most of the time on business, but when he was
in the office I
Bill Swallow wrote:
No, even the Devil despises overhead. These bosses just get
reincarnated over and over and over again.
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Oh, _THAT_ explains why there are so danged many of them!
Dori Green
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IS there a special place in hell for these so-called bosses? Oh, I hope so.
No, even the Devil despises overhead. These bosses just get
reincarnated over and over and over again.
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Sue Heim wrote:
In fact, I'd say I'm more successful than the on-site writer.
I'm quite visible, have a great working relationship with
several VPs (which astonishes those writers who are not remote),
as well as others with whom I work closely (including several
remote developers as well as
Dumb luck, John. Just plain ol' dumb luck.
While I've had some really, really, really fine bosses, I never thought I'd
find pond scum below the last worst boss, yet sooner or later, he or she shows
up.
Sort of like like Queen Narissa from the Enchanted movie just released. (A
really good film
Yeah, I don't use Word either. ;-)
On Nov 26, 2007 11:28 AM, Mike Starr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
snarkAh, perhaps anything YOU do with YOUR computer is likely to corrupt
Word files. I, on the other hand, have learned how to use my tools and don't
suffer corrupt Word files./snark
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Bill
Word doesn't dare to mess with me, either.
Dori FEER MAH POWRZ Green, Goddess of the Documents
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o hai. it lookz like ur rit'n uh memmo. i can helps. k thx bye.
On Nov 26, 2007 11:52 AM, Dori Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Word doesn't dare to mess with me, either.
Dori FEER MAH POWRZ Green, Goddess of the Documents
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Bill Swallow
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WWP-Users List Owner
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What has using your tools to do with Word corrupting files?
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Peter
snarkAh, perhaps anything YOU do with YOUR computer is likely to corrupt
Word files. I, on the other hand, have learned how to use my tools and
don't
suffer corrupt Word files./snark
Mike
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Generally speaking, I would say things haven't changed
significantly in the 15 years I've been a tech pubs mgr.
Whether a company and/or manager sees the need for
managment skills the way you do and invests the timeand
effort to provide/get whatever training and experience is
needed to develop
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Sorry to be so late weighing in on this one, but I can comment on Chuck's post
from the (ex-) manager's perspective.
When I managed the publications group at a small, feisty start-up,
telecommuting was the norm. Two of our writers were remote, and the rest
telecommuted according to their
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