THIS JULY, MY SUPERIORS informed me that I have to
transition from my current technical-writing-slash-subtle-marketing project for
a U.S. client to a short-term proofreading-and-XML-tagging project for a Swiss client.
I concurred.
We started with a three-hour training session on a
late-night schedule. The following day the client sent an e-mail that required
administrative stuff, and I responded promptly to certain requests—of course
addressing my superiors, not the client, to avoid bypassing. A couple of days
later, I was summoned for an ad hoc
meeting in our conference room. When I arrived at the meeting room, I found two
fellow technical writers, who would be working on the same short-term project
too, talking with our U.S.-based project manager on the phone. The project
manager was addressing one of them, offering him a position to become the head
of our team. I heard a familiar name
too. Thinking about you and your
experience though you’re not yet a senior in this company but your experience…
but Alchris too came stepping in to these tasks and seems comfortable with it… deciding
who between the two—some of the unclear conversations I’d picked up when I
came in to the room.
