From a correspondent ...

[David Casseres]

Damn, I wish I could've had the same pointy-headed boss as Pynchon.  Though
I've had a choice selection of pointy-headed bosses my ownself.

On 2/7/07, Dave Monroe <monropolitan at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> 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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