From a correspondent ...

[Dave Monroe]

Pynchon was a technical writer, fired by the same
monstrous pointy-headed boss under whom I suffered at
Boeing in Seattle.

I was at the Kent Space Center of Boeing, near the
Green River of serial killer fame. My amazingly awful
manager Doggett was a former pig-farmer, who overspent
his budget over 100%, but fraudulently used his budget
from his next project to cover the losses, and then
did this again.

He hired an ex-Air Force drinking buddy, and the two
would go off all day to the bars after informing me
that they were "going to the Technical Library." Then
he hired the son of pig-farmers, so that I was doing
the work for all all 3 of them.

When I complained, he first shifted my schedule (I'm
not a morning person) so that I had to report to work
at 7:30 a.m.

Then he had me work through weekends and Christmas
vacation, and falsify my timecards (to under-report my
70 hours a week for which I was paid for 40).

When I complained further, he said:

"I figured out what you are. You're one of those
goddamned Creative people. We had one of those before.
Had to fire his ass."

In follow-up discussions with Doggett and his
colleagues, I definitely identified the prior suspect
as Pynchon.

Doggett left Boeing under a cloud, when he was 3
budgets deep in ponzi-funding. he went to work as a
manager at the famously mismanaged Nuclear Power
installation which I remember by the pronunciation of
its acronym "Whoops!" (WWPS or the like, Western
Washington Power System, or something like that).

I'd guess that he ended up after that at, perhaps,
Haliburton, or FEMA.


 
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