For those that have been at Intel for awhile, what are memories that stood out?
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Watching this pregnant girl smoke in the smoke room in Fab9
After a long bloodbath in the DRAM memory business in 1985-86 Intel exited the unprofitable memory business to focus on microprocessors. I joined in May '87 and they were celebrating being "back in black" after being unprofitable for 18 consecutive months. They celebrated by throwing parties and every employee got a jar of black jelly beans like this: https://images.ctfassets.net/ytpxmi3h6kca/2HN8FjwrgH0B4OLrs4IoTz/f4697a4ca1062499c15dce674ffc5e03/1987_Back_in_the_Black_Jelly_Bean_Jar.jpg?fm=jpg&fl=progressive&q=90&w=638&h=720
Co-workers at Intel would sell pre-programmed satellite dish cards so you could get all the channels.
Those from Rio Rancho, remember the guy who did people's taxes, called the Burger King guy. He would help you get some huge tax refunds.
@nv what was the question? Maybe your manager was right.
Who remembers the Burger King in CH3?
Free bunanas and seeing the minions go wild helping themselves to more than one.
Squirting IPA at teammates
Who is the beotch that is down voting everything. You are a BIG loser.
@nv you were cut out to work at Intel. Your boss was an a$$ for saying that.
My third day at Intel, I asked my manager a question, and he responded by telling me that was the stupidest question anyone had ever asked him, and he ought to fire me then and there for being so stupid. It was at that moment that I realized I was not cut out to work at Intel.
Hanging out with my co-workers at Quarters.
Hanging out with my co-workers at Stone Face Tavern.
there are ppl who are intellectual ra--sts and want to get their own agendas served stepping on innocent ppl work.
Someone got sick and threw up in his helmet. The helmets had the hoses that connected to an air filter pack.
Going through the air showers before entering the fab?
Was a college intern doing PCI chipset validation in the Folsom lab when Andy Grove created the huge public relations nightmare over the Pentium FDIV bug. Was quickly redeployed to a few large conference rooms converted to call centers so customers could call in to get their Pentiums replaced.
While doing PCI chipset validation, I would install UNIX and it would fail many times on the 47th out of 50 floppy disks. Fun times indeed! :-)
I remember when people did not spend all day hanging out in the cafe, posting on their phones and surfing the internet, thinking that no one was noticing.
Instead they were more concerned with earning a living in a challenging job market, always one step away from being fired, monitored by AI enabled cameras.
Yeah, 2026 was awesome!
There was an email from a guy who dated a coworker and basically committed scide because she was an absolute psychopath. Another mass email IT had to scramble to erase, I’m sure she got promoted after that.
Working hard in the fab all night and the guys sitting in the office taking credit for the work.
My time at intel involved working with the worst forms of life. I don't think they were human. They had the human suit but their soul was not human.
Remember when some areas would break up into three groups. Each group will work a certain amount of hours and the other two groups would be out of the fab. Oh wait that’s going on right now. lol
Omg remember that poor sad guy who sent the email to entire company about his wife's affair with a co-worker? IT couldn't erase that fast enough. Felt really sorry for the guy to be that desperate over it.
Signing up for projects with international travel.
ISMC was crazy & ridiculous. Bussing everyone to the House of Blues and an Open Bar.
Embedded team had Orange County Choppers make a bike for Intel.... waste of money.
Debra C. hired Will I Am to be 'Creative Director'... waste of money.
Eric C. did a sponsorship with Formula One... waste of money.
Paul O. got on stage with some tigers for ISMC.... not a waste of money !!!
We should have known we had issues when we couldn't get our chips out on time for Apple. We caused them to delay their launch several times.
12% 401k matches, good sound investment options with ticker symbols that cost nothing on employee's end. Winning Apple as a customer!
I love the cake from MF. Makes all my worries go away as we f-up the company.
This one ERT girl used to call people snapperheads. She was cool!
I remember a Circuit front page article saying "The desktop PC was making a comeback". Wishful thinking I guess. It was hard to watch Intel leadership flounder all of those years.
Using a Bic lighter to ignite a torch when it didn’t ignite.
Before Fab 11 was completely done, some people went to Ireland for training.
Some d-mba$$ used his boss’s PC (no login needed at that time) found people’s pay rates and printed it out and left it. The cover page had his info.
WHEATON, PHIL M. R.I.P. My friend.
Having PCs in the bullpens and not needing to login.
cruise ><
Going to the Wiski Inn at 7am.
- 2 week shutdown for Christmas in Fab9.
The 3.2 million dollars intel enabled me to save.
- Earned $15B foundry business for Intel from Microsoft - Feb 2024.
- Saved $165B of Chips Act grants rebates (hard earned tax payers money) when it was announced by President Trump that TSMC will invest $165B in the United States - March 2025.