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Between high school and college, working in a circuit board manufacturing storeroom.

Fun fact: when we are bagging small boards, we do not gently lay them in containers, they're usually thrown at least 6 feet into a bin of the same type of board after they're placed in the bag. We also don't remake a board when pins are bent, we just bend them back with tweezers. And you know that rule about not touching the gold connectors... Yeah... So much for that... Did I remember to mention that these boards are for medical equipment?

On the bright side, we at least have electrostatic discharge control going on all the time.

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  • 8
    That is why, boys and girls, a brand new component can fail after a couple of days.
  • 2
    This is why we need machines doing some jobs. People aren't made for X hours of continuous task.
  • 5
    There is a line in a Cory Doctorow book that goes something like "see how the solder is clean, it was done by a robot; if it is sloppy it's because the 7 year old Chinese kid was about to pass out from the fumes after working 14 hours."
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