I’ve worked in the medical device industry my whole career and something is definitely up. Traditionally, the environment is hard core, work until you bleed, into the weekends, during Christmas dinner- do whatever it takes to make the numbers. For the last 6 months to a year, maybe longer, my company, along with almost every other one I know of is dealing with backorders... and no real plan to address them, as if it doesn’t matter. Aside from the constant corporate wokeness factor, I received CEO messaging that basically says to take Fridays off now. I have a friend at a competitive company who was recently given similar instructions to work less. Its as if we are winding down and preparing to close the doors. What’s going on?
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This is purely anecdotal, but when I in-processed my last Army installation, the civilian who goes through this process of receiving people and giving the same information over and over (a real charmer with nothing to gain, a crusty person you might say) was bragging about his son who worked with IBM about how they had machines that could test your poop and know if you had cancer as well as other devices. He mentioned it so offhand.
Another anecdotal story is about a prototype for spray applicated solar energy. Like a paint spray can, you just spray a rock and hook a wire up to it and it provides solar electricity.
I know these are very much hearsay, but what did either individual have to gain by telling some random person about this technology?
Not solar but a slightly more advanced procedure with 2 or 3 different sprays may certainly make something like spray-on peltier elements possible and that could be rather huge......