Re: Presidential Speechwriters

On Sun, 12 Aug 2007 16:40:04 GMT, "Wayne Lundberg"
<Waynelund@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


"noname" <noname@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:9b6ub3174fnkn5ais6m3evnunvgn3d7h4t@xxxxxxxxxx
There is a fuss about the chief speechwriter for
President Bush not himself writing all the language
he has taken credit for:

.---snip--->.

You had better luck than I did with a corporate Caterpillar speech I was
assigned to write. I focused on the accomplishments in innovation and
technology the engineering teams had made happen in that division. When the
speech was given by the VP Ops it was as though in another language. Pure
corporate BS. Not a word about the real progress the company was making.

You were writing about substance and I wrote a cheerleading speech.

My job with this company was varied and I did like many of the people
I worked with. My immediate boss steered me around the politics of
the place and helped me not annoy difficult people.

I liked the job because I was able to use many skills I had learned
as a printer == to design various publications and see them through
the production process. I did a lot of work explaining the online
computer system the company installed in its branch offices --
training manuals and a publication to market it to other companies
in the same business. The job was not boring and I was able to use
my own initiative to devise projects.

My immediate boss was a very funny man with a black sense of humor.
He used to tick off the names to me of the people in the company
he hated and rate them in order. He died suddently after undergoing
a heart operation and I was made department head. By that time he
had taught me well about office politics.

I was in a tizzy for a time when I thought I was going to have to
report to a VP I detested. So I gambled and told the company
treasurer I would like to report to him. Thankfully he was
flattered and lo and behold a week later the president himself
marched into my office along with the treasurer and said,
"Meet your new boss."

I was a bit disgruntled a couple of years later when one my
staff informed me a young woman in my department was having an
affair with the treasurer:) Oh well, nobody's perfect.



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