[sdiy] <sob>Too honest for my own good...

[Glen]

At 03:13 PM 1/9/02 , Jim Patchell wrote:
>    At work today, I dug Qnty 150 AD633JN's (4 quadrant multipliers,
>they cost $6 each in that quantity) out of the trash...we do sort of use
>these, I took them back in, pointed out the mistake, and they were put
>back into stock...man...I could have used those...but, I suppose being
>honest is better.

Well, it *might* have been better to have kept your company from using those
150 parts, especially if they had been simply dumped "naked" into a
plastic-lined trash can. Think of the potentially high static electricity those
chips might have been subjected to. Can those chips really be trusted to
perform reliably in some mission-critical application, now that they have been
"mishandled" by leaving them in the trash?

It could be argued that using them at home for your own amusement would have
been a far safer way to handle these "not to be trusted, and possibly damaged"
semiconductors. That is, assuming your application at home isn't also
"mission-critical" as well. (I doubt that you would have used them in a DIY
life-support system.)   :)

Next time you want to be honest, try my ESD excuse. Tell the boss "What a shame
it is. Since someone placed these static-sensitive items in the trash, we can't
use them now because of ESD concerns". At this point, it won't matter if you
want to take a few home with you, because they are simply trash at that point.


Later,
Glen