I’m sure the same can be said of semiconductor manufacturing. My wife’s first day on the job in the clean room, she noticed the plastic ribbons on the vent above the photo resist station were not flapping. When maintenance looked into it, the vent was blocked-off; had been since it was installed. It’s this kind of shit.

She got the hell out of microelectronics and is now a data scientist. The former is a dead end job in the USA and the latter pays better.