I’m more amused than angry, while that may change in the near future, for now I thought this mundane little story better suited to MPISM than the pit.
My company has several clean rooms. They are all class 10K clean rooms complete with huge banks of HEPA filters, HVAC units which monitor the positive pressure differential between the rooms and the outside world; blah blah blah… you get the idea. The largest of these is entered through an airlock which joins the clean room to a changing and staging area.
So I am talking to the facilities manager earlier, and he tells me, “Well, we had a hell of time cleaning up the hair from the clean room.” “What hair?” I ask, thinking he is talking colorfully about some modest amount of fibrous refuse. “Oh, you didn’t hear? One of the clean room technicians was giving haircuts outside the interlock. They then went inside and carried it all in with them.” Stunned silence on my part. Sure, food and drink are not admitted, bunny suits with caps are required, no paper or cardboard is allowed in the area, but there is no documented rule against using the area as a barbershop.
Andy why should there be? I mean really, the caps are designed to keep hair from falling off your head and into the room. Clearly hair clippings that you litter the floor with and drag into the room are a different animal altogether. The important thing is that you look good. If you don’t look good, I can’t expect you to get any work done. Next time take a few moments to shave your palms, dimwits.