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I’m a traveling Metrology guy. It sure is fun bringing home a $250k Leica laser tracker home to my house that is worth less than what’s in that box.
Is that the same company that makes histology stuff? half my lab is Leica equipment
Possibly, Leica seems to make all sorts of fancy (expensive) stuff
Microscopes, too!
I work in scientific equipment. It helps to focus oneself to occasionally imagine the box as being full of $100k in $100 bills, when I debate whether to leave it in the car or take it inside overnight…
… I said to myself as I meticulously removed all traces of the serial number.
Also, typically notoriously hard to fence, cause nobody knows what the fuck they’re going to do with a gamma ray spectrometer or whatever.
Ya and taking off the serial number doesn’t really matter when it’s less than 10 😅
Over COVID I was given 3 of the widgets that my company manufactures to take home in case I needed to help diagnose a customer problem. Stuck them in my backpack and walked to my car, then realized that my backpack was now worth about $150,000. When I got home I emailed my boss to confirm that, if my house were to burn down, the widgets would be covered under the companies insurance policy
I actually got to use the Arecibo Observatory a few times. There are these things called tie downs that keep the big ball thing from falling over trying to look beyond its ability. At the time they were down for maintenance, so they told me to just not fuck it up. I was 22 at the time.
It has a euro sign so I wouldn’t be scared. It’ll just be insured.
I felt the same way after being handed a corp full admin account over the datacenter. Like “I wouldn’t give my car keys to a toddler, but here I am…”
This happened to me at work. I was talking to the chief engineer, and he handed me one of the products he was working on.
Thinking it probably was worth $100,000 I asked how much it was worth. He said “Oh about a million dollars”
Then why’d you hand it to me?!
It’s cool but holy moly!
make sure you do that with everything, like even a beaker full of h202 so when they actually break the expensive stuff they don’t sweat it
