Bob Blaylock
Diamond Member
- Banned
- #141
That some nut can come back 27 years later and say he was a creep to work for, and damn, I'd have a hard time telling you the names of people I worked with in 1993 and so would you.
In 1993, 27 years ago, I was working for a very small company in Santa Barbara, that was into underwater acoustics. My boss, the owner of the company, was one of the best men I ever knew, a great scientist, a great explorer, and adventurer, a great philanthropist. There's a geographical feature in Antarctica named after him. He's one of four primary authors of the definitive work on the subject of the effect of industrial noise on marine mammals. I get a terse mention on page xv in the Acknowledgements.
It was a small company, with irregular activity, so workers came and went. During the time I was with this company, we sometimes had as many as perhaps a dozen or so people working for us, and as few as one. My boss and I were the most constant. The time we were down to one, it was me, my boss having effectively laid himself off, and taken a job with another company, but there was some work to be done, which he had me doing, while he worked at that other job. I remember most of the other people who I worked with in that company. All very good people. It seems that my boss was an exceptionally good judge of character, and managed to associate only with people who were worthy of considerable respect.
I have no trouble at all remembering who I worked with in 1993.