• Arcanepotato@crazypeople.online
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    3 days ago

    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 😂

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      3 days ago

      I’ve heard stories of grad students flat out refusing to work with HF. (Never relevant for me, other than being something very scary.)

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        3 days ago

        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)