http://rumored.com/2010/02/27/three-stars-in-the-sunset/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=three-stars-in-the-sunset Dispatches, news, stories, and ramblings from fiction writer Jon Konrath Thu, 17 May 2012 15:24:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://rumored.com/2010/02/27/three-stars-in-the-sunset/comment-page-1/#comment-743 2010, we hardly knew ye | The Wrath of Kon Sun, 02 Jan 2011 01:26:04 +0000 http://rumored.com/journal/?p=1955#comment-743 [...] In February, I quit my job at the Korean status report company that happens to also make mobile phones.  During my tenure, I did all of the things a high-priced technical writer is most adept at doing, such as working at trade shows answering questions about said company’s televisions and washing machines, maintaining a bug database that was hardly used because the company preferred to use ten-meg excel spreadsheets mailed to the entire division to keep track of bugs, and daily maintenance of a farm of cell phones that nobody used that required battery-out reboots.  You can read more about my departure at Three stars in the sunset. [...] [...] In February, I quit my job at the Korean status report company that happens to also make mobile phones.  During my tenure, I did all of the things a high-priced technical writer is most adept at doing, such as working at trade shows answering questions about said company’s televisions and washing machines, maintaining a bug database that was hardly used because the company preferred to use ten-meg excel spreadsheets mailed to the entire division to keep track of bugs, and daily maintenance of a farm of cell phones that nobody used that required battery-out reboots.  You can read more about my departure at Three stars in the sunset. [...]

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