FoxtrotDeltaTango@sh.itjust.works to Comic Strips@lemmy.world · 3 days agoI love hearing about my engineer friends' livesmedia.piefed.zipimagemessage-square27linkfedilinkarrow-up1320arrow-down111file-textcross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up1309arrow-down1imageI love hearing about my engineer friends' livesmedia.piefed.zipFoxtrotDeltaTango@sh.itjust.works to Comic Strips@lemmy.world · 3 days agomessage-square27linkfedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: [email protected]
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minus-squareArcanepotato@crazypeople.onlinelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·3 days agoI’ve been a chemical engineer for 13 years, it was a joke about it being safe. One of my first jobs was with hydrofluoric acid 😂
minus-squareqjkxbmwvz@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkarrow-up4·3 days agoI’ve heard stories of grad students flat out refusing to work with HF. (Never relevant for me, other than being something very scary.)
minus-squareArcanepotato@crazypeople.onlinelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·3 days agoNow imagine a contract manufacturing plant that hires line workers through temp agencies and you can understand why I am yearning for a safe chemE job (I walked out of that place btw)
minus-squarenandeEbisu@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·3 days agoYou want the job designing plants, not the job where you die when the plant you designed blows up.
minus-squareArcanepotato@crazypeople.onlinelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·3 days agoNo I don’t I want safely designed plants and people who work at them to know how to work safe
I’ve been a chemical engineer for 13 years, it was a joke about it being safe. One of my first jobs was with hydrofluoric acid 😂
I’ve heard stories of grad students flat out refusing to work with HF. (Never relevant for me, other than being something very scary.)
Now imagine a contract manufacturing plant that hires line workers through temp agencies and you can understand why I am yearning for a safe chemE job
(I walked out of that place btw)
You want the job designing plants, not the job where you die when the plant you designed blows up.
No I don’t
I want safely designed plants and people who work at them to know how to work safe