Very early in my electronics career I spent a couple of years working in the chemistry lab of a large company - most of the work was electronic circuitry related, thin film coatings, electroplating and the like.
Steve, one of the heads of department, was a character - we were in labcoats, he had loud Hawai’ian shirts. Absent minded too: I once saw him go to take out a component that had been etching in hydrofluoric acid with his bare hands - he stopped when I said his name loudly, looked down and went ‘oh, yeah’ then got some teflon tweezers instead.
He may have just been winding up 18 year old part-time student me, but… 
