Feel my pain

I think I understand it . . . after reading it intently three times. But then, maybe not.

That man has a bright future with the government.

I have done some of that work (argh!) -- some of these people are very smart and good at what they do but they can't write worth a damn. And I'm the guy with an accent.

Maybe:

You can improve response time by using immediate pages, and by directly routing supporting documents to decision-makers for approval.

Not sure what "immediate pages" are. I guess it's like "paging someone immediately"?


You can improve response time by paging the decision-makers immediately, and by directly routing supporting documents to them for approval.

Improve response time with immediate pages and routing supporting documents for approval by decision-makers directly."


I think he's saying, "Improve response time by receiving (or sending, it could be either or both) pages immediately and by routing supporting documents directly to decision-makers for approval."

Would it be "receiving" or "sending" pages? Or both? That's why he wrote "with immediate pages" instead of using a verb.

alleycat said:

I think I understand it . . . after reading it intently three times. But then, maybe not.

That man has a bright future with the government.

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No, no, no. I work for the government (in the DOD specifically) and we _never_ route documents directly to decision makers. They all have to go through all the intermediate steps. Anything less would step on too many toes.

CaroGirl said:

I've decided I want everyone to feel my pain. I'm a technical writer and editor. Today I got a document to edit that was written by the marketing guy. It's a mess of nonsensical jargon and generally bad writing.

Here's a snippet:

"Improve response time with immediate pages and routing supporting documents for approval by decision-makers directly."

Okay, is it just me, or HUH? I get to make that make sense. Jealous yet?

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Talk about time management.. less is more LOL

I feel your pain, Caro. I tried to read between the words and came up with this:

"I want to surf web pages faster and want my documents routed directly to decision-makers instead of the usual cast of company procrastinators!"