Talk:Signetics/Archives/2013

You should have been there. I was.

... 1981 - 1983. These "engineers" would not qualify for truck drivers. Department heads who could not make decisions occupied key positions.

... Moral was so low that when wafers broke there was a general cheer in the entire e-sort.

... Test equipment was broken, twisted, and antiquated. Engineers who had the capacity to upgrade test machinery, inexpensively, were told to keep out of the e-sort.

... When product 191A was being tested failed in massive numbers the "bosses" cheered because it was not yield which the bonuses were paid. It was throughput. A valueless number gave bonuses to bosses.

... Idiot technicians were given harmless positions sorting parts. Stupid bosses were intimidated by broken testing computers so circuit boards with discrete components were "overnighted" to the repair facilities in California. The cost for this foolishness was about $500 per repair on a $0.30 part. Boards were shipped out 5 to 10 at a time.

... Floor supervisors were comprised of a hated neurotic woman and a lecherous helicopter crewman. The woman had a car accident one winter and everybody was relieved because they thought she had died.

... The helicopter clown had women spread over his lap in full view of everybody who was present in or who had to pass by his office. He had impregnated 3 or 4 women who had worked at Signetics and was paying child support for all of them. Anybody want to file charges of sexual harassment?

... Waste was rampant. Controls were non-existent. Common sense was disposed of in an attempt to jostle for political position and self preservation.

... Once the engineers were attempting to find the reason for a part failure on an epoxy encapsulated chip. They had used fuming nitric acid to eat the epoxy away to obtain a visual of the circuit. The guess was that the failure was due to a "bugger" laying on the chip face. Evidently the fuming nitric acid could eat epoxy but not snot.

... Because the "snot" got the blame for the failure we had to get snoods and blue lint free suits and booties to keep the "snot" out of the e-sort. Trouble was that the blue lint free suits caused computer failure because they filled the test equipment with blue lint. The bosses denied that the suits caused problems because "it just couldn't be". The blue lint came and went with the suits.

... Radios could not be played in the e-sort because they could cause emf failure. But this only happened if you put the radio in the bowels of the test equipment. A distance of half an inch or less. Your own radio, in your pocket, was thought to cause part/equipment failure. No thought as to the relationship of a Faraday Shield or distance from the shielded wires. Just had to blame someone.

... Your wages depended on you receiving an "excellent" rating on your semi-annual job interview. The interview was highly subjective and even if you got that coveted "excellent" rating you were told that the company did not earn enough money to justify your miserable fifteen cent raise.

... All in all Signetics of Orem was a trash heap. It did not deserve to live. Politics and incompetence ruled the days the plant was running. Philips, the parent company did well to remove this blight from Utah. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.8.74.93 (talk) 06:44, 16 February 2009 (UTC)