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[–] NoLifeKing@ani.social 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Bro what? Because of a fucking freezer?!?

[–] papabobolious@feddit.nu 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] NoLifeKing@ani.social 4 points 8 months ago (3 children)

How can all 16 fail at once and how can nobody notice before its to late?

[–] jarfil@beehaw.org 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Maybe a janitor turned off power to the whole lab to stop the irritating alarms... no, wait, I think that was a different case.

[–] jlh@lemmy.jlh.name 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Everybody was out of town for Christmas.

[–] 0xtero@beehaw.org 7 points 8 months ago (2 children)

More likely, they were saving costs and fired the non-essential janitor who turned out to be totally fucking essential

[–] wahming@monyet.cc 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Ironically, firing the non-essential janitor would have prevented the last incident of this type

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/27/cleaner-college-research-freezer-rensselaer-polytechnic-institute

[–] NoLifeKing@ani.social 1 points 8 months ago

Most likely that.

[–] papabobolious@feddit.nu 1 points 8 months ago

Because they were home for Christmas. Of course they should have better monitoring, but that is why.