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Great, gonna have to have an ESD strap at home AND at work!
To give some perspective to the ESD thing, know when yo uare walking around when it's dry out and you touch a doorknob and get a shock? That's between 5,000 and 7,000 VOLTS. Not that you'd know it though. Under 2,000V is unfelt by you, but it's very destructive to semiconductors, and you'll never know it happened unless you replace the part itself (after much troubleshooting eliminating all possible causes).
I forget the number of volts, but when I took my refresher Surface Mount Technology soldering course in 2005, the instructor made a point of spending half an hour on ESD, and testing various things we had access to. Know that simply pulling a couple inches of Scotch tape off the roll produces an ESD of up to 1,000V? Neat, eh?
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