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How can all 16 fail at once and how can nobody notice before its to late?
Maybe a janitor turned off power to the whole lab to stop the irritating alarms... no, wait, I think that was a different case.
This happened?!?
Yep
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/27/cleaner-college-research-freezer-rensselaer-polytechnic-institute
Omg
Everybody was out of town for Christmas.
More likely, they were saving costs and fired the non-essential janitor who turned out to be totally fucking essential
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
Most likely that.
Because they were home for Christmas. Of course they should have better monitoring, but that is why.