User talk:Oeloeloel

ZILCH means something to me. I know the meaning of Antonym and Synonym, but I didn't learn the meaning of Eponym until I became one. This is the story of how I became a living Eponym of a word that means "nothing". This is a story that asks why, of the thousands of words used in oral communication in jest or anger every day, this word ZILCH caught on and became used worldwide. There were certainly enough words meaning "nothing" such as; nil, zip, zero, aught, naught, and of course, nothing. Our story begins in the early 1960's in an industrial section of Newbury Park, California.

Technology Instrument Corporation, later to be Bowmar/TIC, was located in this Southern California industrial Park with companies such as Packard-Bell, Northrup, Semtec, etc. TIC was a company that designed and manufactured precision rotary components such as potentiometers, switches, and commutators in addition to electro-mechanical packages. I was sales manager from 1958 to 1964 of this Company whose sales input was approximately five million annually made up of contracts ranging from twenty five thousand to four hundred thousand. Unfortunately the sales input was usually very uneven making difficult managment problems of too many employees and not enough business or too much business and not enough employees causing late deliveries.

Every week the Managers of Sales, Engineering, Accounting, and Manufacturing met with the President, Mr. Joe Looney, and Vice President, Mr. Ivan Dornbush, to discuss, review, and plan the Company's general plan of action. (to be completed)

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