A Beloved Boss
The PC World Test Center staff.Greg Adler, an assistant editor and former Test Center employee, recalled Uli as a selfless person who went out of her way to be a great boss. "She was constantly cracking the whip about getting projects done and working hard, but she always made sure the work was fun and enjoyable at the same time."
"Every Tuesday, per tradition, the whole lab would eat lunch together and we would talk about what was going on in our lives, or tell stories about our past," he added. "Whether Uli was talking about her childhood years, or how she met her husband, or her mischievous dogs, Uli always told the best stories."
Uli's devotion to her Rottweilers, which she showered with affection, was well-known. Her office walls were covered with dozens of photos of the dogs.
"One of my fondest memories of Uli is the day I met her dogs," said Narasu Rebbapragada, senior editor. "I had heard so much about them--how big they were, how there was no way in the world that I was big enough to walk them for her. So when I rang her doorbell one day and heard their deep, resonant barking, I was a little nervous. But when I saw them, I just started laughing. They were like two huge balls of happiness jumping up and down at me. A smiling Uli stood behind them and ushered them outside. That's when I saw their expansive dog house--essentially an at-home, off-leash dog park that took up Uli's back yard. You could tell how much Uli loved those beautiful dogs by the thoughtful home she had built them."
Contributing Editor Carla Thornton recalled Uli's dedication to the Test Center and to "her boys" in the lab (as she affectionately called them). "I rarely got her out of her cubicle for lunch (she usually ate at her desk, glued to her screen). But we often sat and talked about the difficulty of balancing independent lives with being long-distance daughters of older mothers who we constantly worried about (and hers was still in Germany)," Thornton said.
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