Who, Me?

The office sink is always a horror. Managers worried this one glowed

WHO, ME? Welcome to a fresh, tasty, instalment of Who, Me? It’s The Register ’s reader-contributed column in which readers confess about things they did at work that probably deserve to remain a secret.

This week, meet a reader we’ll Regomize as “Ray” who told us he once worked in a research lab repairing nucleonic instruments.

We understand they’re gadgets that use very short half-life isotopes that emit just enough radiation it’s possible to measure the backscatter. According to the World Nuclear Association this is helpful to measure the level of coal in a hopper, or the thickness of paper!

Like many workplaces, the lab Ray worked in had a microwave oven staff could use to warm their lunches, and a coffee machine too.

The difference in this lab was that the appliances lived next to a sink used to wash the nucleonic kit.

Ray’s manager decided that posed a risk to workers’ health – which it didn’t – so insisted the…