[SATLUG] Bruce Bowen

[Borries Demeler]

> Look folks...the hitch mechanic that I worked with was just that. He used
> his welder and cutting torch to create custom trailer hitches for people who
> needed them. Moreover, he was a stoner. He really truly was the world's most
> incompetent employee when he was sober. His work brought in so much money
> that one of our company's executives (this was for a publicly traded, world
> class company that deals with rv's and trailers) instructed local management
> to look the other way. How do I know? I was the assistant manager. Yes...if
> you put anyone in direct contact with a hallucinagen, don't be surprised by
> the results. But in this guy's case, all the stuff did was make him
> comfortable and relaxed. And charging people $65/hr to build a hitch back in
> the mid-80s was generating a lot of income because he'd work 15-18 hour
> days. Would I hire someone like that? No.
> 
> But this joker was really good when baked and pretty bad when sober. He also
> didn't have an expense in the world because he moved into his late-mother's
> house, had no cable or phone, paid off his truck, and basically lived debt
> free.

Ouchh!
Would you like to tow a 1+ ton trailer with a hitch welded by this guy?
Over mountain passes? This executive/management/employee sound
like a major liability for this publically traded, world class RV company....

-b.