Hardware Inspector Fired For Spotting An Error He Wasn't Trained To Find
The Register, Friday, September 26th, 2025
Manager's quality control priorities were upside down
This week, meet a reader we'll Regomize as "Tex," who briefly worked at a semiconductor company in the second-largest state of the USA.
"I was working in their receiving department inspecting and processing incoming components," Tex told On Call.
Most of the kit that crossed Tex's desk was mundane and uninteresting, but the job was a foot on the ladder and never more so than the day he was asked to inspect an incoming batch of motherboards.
"That excited me because I would finally be working with something technical," he told On Call.