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deird1 ([personal profile] deird1) wrote2016-03-08 09:41 am

it's kind of my JOB

I asked one of the team engineers to check whether a technical term was written correctly. He huffed, rolled his eyes slightly, and demanded "Who's questioning it?"

Why, good sir, I am questioning it. It is my bounden duty, as company editor, to question every half-formed piece of drivel that crosses my desk; to tear it to shreds and reconstruct it in a way that makes sense; to challenge every fact, every phrasing; to correct, to change, to disrupt - so that when your document reaches its final destination, and your now-flowing prose delights their every sense, our clients will not, even for a moment, question it.
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[personal profile] velvetwhip 2016-03-08 12:24 am (UTC)(link)
Or you could just let it through and the company's reputation would be destroyed and everyone would be out of a job and then this team engineer wouldn't have to worry about writing anything correctly anymore.


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