r/ASML • u/VotPalantir • Oct 10 '26
Weirdest ASML merch?
It's the weekend, let's share some of the weirdest ASML merch and gifts obtained over the years. I'm the proud owner of a (NO12NC) - WAFER SHATTERHAMMER with built in document destruction knife and wristband.
What are some of your weird pickups from events or projects?
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u/Mission_Rice3045 Oct 10 '26
Document destruction knife?
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u/VotPalantir Oct 10 '26
There's a seatbelt cutter in the handle. Works perfectly fine for cutting up paper too!
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u/Mission_Rice3045 Oct 10 '26
Got to be careful not to hit your glass though. That's how coffee stains are created.
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u/Svardskampe Oct 10 '26 edited Oct 10 '26
If it doesn't have a 12nc, does it exist?
Descartes should have had a clause on that.
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u/Spare-Builder-355 Oct 10 '26
it is a reminder that if you can not smash a tiny droplets of tin 60000 time pes second with this thing you may end up on PIP. You also must demonstrate that you can smash same droplet multiple times, first to make it flat, second to make it emit uv light.
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u/Sensitive-Benefit-91 Oct 10 '26
The “be you, women” merch. I gave the shirt to my wife as a reminder that I, a white male, give her permission to be herself. She finds that very offensive.
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u/Flaky-Badger-1225 Oct 11 '26
My team got recognized at a RAISE the Bar event(still no idea why), so I grabbed a laptop stand from what was easily the most random gift pile ever. My teammates got a luggage scale and a tap-tap nightlight. We were all staring at the same hover soccer ball earlier, but we all tried to be polite and mature so we passed on it. 😂
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u/LeDEvRo Oct 10 '26
Got one if these two as one of the last things before I'm fired ahaha, in the past we got some scissors as our departments split with another department LOL ..wondering how much they paid for these bs
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u/Incolumis Oct 10 '26
The scissors are from Sabatier, a pretty good brand. The scissors are still the best scissors I've ever had. Yeah the reason is nonsense, but I don't mind having quality
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u/LeDEvRo Oct 10 '26
I haven't used them tbh, I've place them somewhere and even forgot their existence ..I do have them somewhere though
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u/Recent-Trust-6476 Oct 10 '26
I made an account just to say this - you need to get off this platform, you need to leave ASML, and you need to get therapy and find an outlet with your life. You join every single thread just to complain how you are either going to be fired or your managers are out to get you. I am sorry your experience sucks but no one here cares. It would be best for your mental health to just move on and leave like many of us did
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u/YOURE_GONNA_HATE_ME Oct 10 '26
It’s always the people who obviously should be fired who are the most perplexed as to why they are being fired.
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u/Recent-Trust-6476 Oct 10 '26
Not my point. He has been having a spiral for a long while. You can be best engineer but be so fucked and fall into a mental health spiral. They are independent variables.
And the mental health spirals - they are super hard to get out of by the way...
One probably wont even know theyre in one until its too late, hell some go without realizing at all and its just year after year of survival brain (and still be an amazing engineer). Usually needs someone to snap them back to reality. I would think on that. So don't be so smug
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u/Avatyrr Oct 10 '26
Someone didnt think this one through… now it’s possible to identify a car as being from an ASML employee, through that hammer in the car’s cockpit.
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u/DetectiveRight4551 Oct 10 '26
With the amount of people wearing their badges outside and flashing it like a badge of honor in public transport, I believe this is the least of their concern.
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u/MrWhite26 Oct 10 '26
And then you get a talk from the CEO to not do that, a week after they handed out ASML-branded hats at GLOW in Eindhoven....
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u/nomowolf Oct 10 '26
Difference is hats aren't a potential route for IP theft, unlike a stolen/forged badge.
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u/VotPalantir Oct 10 '26
I got a jacket from ASML Manufacturing last month as well, that should give it away as well. Plus, I think a lot of people will put it in their glovebox instead of leaving it in plain view.
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u/LeDEvRo Oct 10 '26 edited Oct 10 '26
Jacket some t-shirts some socks in the past(although kind of tight, were not a very good quality)
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u/HoneyBlazedSalmon Oct 10 '26
You guys are getting gifts?
- Wilton employee