Natural Science Forum / Physics / Relativity / August 2006

I will admit that most of my managers at NASA have been good to me.  My
first managers liked my style of not giving into the status quo.  This was
John Sims, Charlie Brown and Ray Dell'Osso.  Ray was the "big boss" in that
at the time he ran the training division.  I initially came to NASA to
interview as an astronaut instructor for the contractor.  Ray saw my resume
and interviewed me. I ended up being hired by him as a Civil Servant.  My
first supervisor was Charlie Brown.  He moved up the chain and John Sims
took over the job.  As I have said earlier, the training division was nearly
as powerful as the flight controller divisions.  We were always at odds with
each other.  I was trained to do combat up to and including nuclear strike
of Eastern Europe while in the military.  Making a few flight controllers
unhappy was OK with me as long as I was doing the job I was assigned.  All
three of the people I mentioned supported me 100%.  Maybe this was a bad
deal for me, because going against the flight controller division was not
good for a career - I am currently unemployed J

I had a serious of bad managers from the time I left the training division
until I returned from my illegal hospitalization in the summer of 1999.
Then I worked for some very good people for a while.  This was Mitch Macha
and Stephen Gonzalez.  Both of these people helped me develop.  But me job
was easier at this time.  I was a programmer and didn't have to butt heads
with managers in other departments to do my job.  I simply wrote code that
worked - my code always worked and I always had happy customers.

I made a mistake of going into a program management job.  Too much office
politics for me.  My supervisor was Greg Hite.  At first he supported me,
but deserted me toward the end.  I sent a couple of emails to my divorce
attorney and NASA obviously intercepted them.  The summary is based on this
traffic to my attorney, Greg agreed with me in a meeting in his office in
Jan 2006 my memory would have been erased if my father had said yes.  I was
completely freaked out by his statement.  I knew NASA knew I was about ready
to prove in my divorce court they told lie after lie about me to my doctor.
They knew I had a strong case they wanted to erase my memory in 1999.  I had
panic attacks coming into work knowing NASA knew what I was about to do in
the Family Law Court of Harris County Texas.  Greg allowed me sick leave,
but then higher level people kicked in and started using my sick leave as a
tool to manipulate me and my doctors.