And understand he had us believing that he was one of the most famous zoo directors in the country, if not in the world. Or that his reputation was less than sterling in the zoos that he had worked in prior to Riverbanks as a reptile curator. And he had this reputation as a very demonic, dictatorial leader, firing people right and left. I don’t think he ever fired anybody. I know he didn’t fire people when he was in Columbia, but he drove them to quit. He made their life. If he decided that Joe Smith was not a good employee, he made Joe Smith’s life miserable until he quit. That was how he dealt with personnel issues.
