I don't think that programmers should be writing user documentation. API documentation, yes. But not documentation geared towards users. It should be reviewed by the programmers who wrote the system, but they shouldn't write it.

One thing that annoys me are arbitrary deadlines. I once had a "manager" tell me that to help me out in working faster, he's going to put a deadline on the project.

Of course that's why the project was late! It's because I had no deadline. It's not because it needed 10 programmers and I was the only one working on it. Needless to say, I didn't work there for long.