Work pranks, Part 2.
As I've mentioned before, I work for a semiconductor manufacturing plant. (See www.b3ta.com/questions/dirtysecrets/post91344 for details.) For those of you not familiar with what a wafer of silicon is like, imagine an 8" circle of silvery glass about one millimeter thick- extremely fragile, and after they've been processed a bit, extremely expensive.

One night one of the polishers had an alarm and I had to manually recover the wafers from the deptchs of the machine and place them into their cassette so they could be finished processing. As one of the maintenance guys came in he said, "Well? Get 'em all out?"

"Getting the last one now," I replied, straightening up with a cassette in one hand and a wafer in the other. "Here, take a look at this one and tell me what you think." And with that I tossed the wafer to him like a frisbee.

It clanged as it hit the floor, and his eyes were about the size of wafers as he watched it hit. And then he realized that it was the aluminum dummy wafer that the maintenance guys used when rebuilding the polishing heads.

Never before or since have I been called a bastard with such sincerity...
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Thu 13 Dec 2007, 17:30, Reply)