Rebirth: The Explosive ChapterChapter 5
The next day
In the office area, I saw Awei bragging to a few colleagues about how I helped him with the account reconciliation. Old Liu also came over and patted me on the shoulder:“Little Li, President Lan just called and said that your method of adjusting the drill bit angle is effective, and the material jamming issue has decreased significantly. He also said he wants you to visit the factory again to provide more suggestions!””
I was about to agree when I caught a glimpse of the fan in the corner of the room. I suddenly thought of something and said to Old Liu:“Old Liu, there’s no rush from President Lan’s side. I think we need to address the safety issue in our office area first. Look at that fan; the wires are almost worn through. If there’s a short circuit and it catches fire, it would be a problem. Also, the pile of waste newspapers and parts over there is too close to the power source; we need to move it.””
Old Liu was taken aback, probably not expecting me to bring this up suddenly. He looked at the fan and then at the pile of waste by the wall, scratching his head and saying:“You’re right; that is indeed a problem. Alright, I’ll have the logistics team come to fix the fan this afternoon and organize everyone to clean up the waste.””
I breathed a sigh of relief; at least I had eliminated one hazard. But I knew this was just the beginning; there would be more challenges ahead, whether it was leveraging future technologies to develop the business or avoiding potential dangers, it all had to be done step by step.
Just as I was pondering how to connect with President Lan regarding factory optimization, the piercing fire alarm suddenly went off in the office area, its sharp sound shattering the previous calm, the noise of chairs colliding and people gasping intertwined, plunging the entire office area into chaos.
Everyone was frantically pushing towards the fire escape, but I was pulled deeper into a daze by the sudden alarm, my gaze fixed on the freshly printed PCB design drawing on the desk — it was the core circuit diagram of a new product developed by the factory that President Lan had sent over that morning.
The water stains at the corners of the drawing were spreading in a strange manner, the ink lines becoming blurred, and this seemingly ordinary water stain suddenly reminded me that in my previous life, it had caused a short circuit in the workshop, ultimately leading to the destruction of production equipment worth millions!
Cold sweat “whooshed” down my spine, the icy sensation snapping me back to reality. I grabbed the drawing and pushed against the crowd towards the fire escape. Just as I turned the corner, I collided head-on with the supervisor coming from the opposite direction.
“Are you crazy? Running in the opposite direction when there’s a fire!”” The supervisor yelled, but his voice was quickly drowned out by the louder screams.
I gripped the drawing tightly, my veins bulging, knuckles turning white, as memories from my previous life flashed through my mind: three days later, in the dead of night, it was this water-stained drawing with critical parameters blurred that rendered the quality inspection process completely ineffective, ultimately resulting in irreversible losses.
At this moment, the green light at the end of the corridor’s emergency exit was glaringly bright, but I suddenly turned around, ripped the fire extinguisher off the wall, and smashed it hard against the fire hydrant in the corridor.
“Crash” With a loud noise, glass shards flew everywhere, and I shouted at the stunned crowd:“Don’t go out! The problem isn’t the fire; it’s the circuit board!””
The crowd’s gasps mixed with the alarm sound into a chaotic mess. I crouched down quickly, unfolded the drawing, and scraped away the water-stained copper foil circuit layer with my fingernail.
The details that had been easily overlooked due to industry experience in my previous life were now magnified as if under a magnifying glass — those manually calculated impedance parameters hid several subtle yet fatal errors that could destroy the entire project. And this rebirth granted me not only a vision of future technology but also a sharp blade to cut through the industry’s accumulated problems.
I suddenly realized that in my previous life, starting from this month, I had been seen as a soft target by the department supervisor because I was new to the PCB industry and didn’t understand the depths of it, and I had been made to take the blame for the design errors of his incompetent nephew. That guy had messed up the wiring diagram completely, and in the end, I was pushed out to take the fall, resulting in my disgrace in the industry.
In my previous life, I was crushed in the PCB industry, driven to despair by the hypocrisy of human nature and the blind spots of expertise. In this life, I will use the professional knowledge ingrained in my bones and my understanding of future technologies to gradually expose the schemes of those wearing masks and rewrite my fate. And all of this will start with correcting this erroneous wiring.
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