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

[Jim Patchell]

    The company is 5S'ing inventory.  Even though it is 2002, a lot of the
stuff that was scrapped last year, still hasn't made it to the dumpster.
Yesterday, I salvaged about 10 pounds (sorry, I don't know what that is in
KGrams) of metal film resistors.  Trouble was, they are all mixed together.
New metal film resistors are only 2 cents (or less) each, so it probably wasn't
even worth the effort to snag them, but, I just can't let junk like that get
tossed.  And, there have been several mistakes made.  I found several items
that should not have been tossed.

    -Jim

David Halliday wrote:

> And the question now is, who _else_ at your company is into building synths
> and tossed these gems with the intent of dumpster-diving them out 'fore you
> saw them...
>
> -> Glen wrote:
> ->
> -> >
> -> > 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?
> ->
> ->     Nope, still in the original tubes, inside vacum sealed
> -> shielded bags.  Can't
> -> believe how I smiled when I saw them...
> ->
> -> >