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Annoyed janitor turns off super-cold freezer, destroying decades of scientific work and causing at least $1M in damages: lawsuit
NY Post ^
| 06/26/2023
| Steve Janoski
Posted on 06/26/2023 7:18:46 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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Wow this is insane
To: ChicagoConservative27
“The cleaning company had a $1.4 million contract to clean the RPI facilities during the 2020 fall semester.”
For the sake of an annoyed, but stupid, janitor. Had.
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posted on
06/26/2023 7:21:54 AM PDT
by
Jonty30
(If liberals were truth tellers, they'd call themselves literals. )
To: ChicagoConservative27
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posted on
06/26/2023 7:22:15 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: ChicagoConservative27
What is insane is that if all this work was so valuable, that the University didn’t have alarms for the freezer.
Power outages happen, so I would have expected an independent monitoring system would alert key personnel if the temp rose above a set point.
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posted on
06/26/2023 7:22:55 AM PDT
by
Yo-Yo
(Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
To: ChicagoConservative27
What surprises me is that this hasn’t happened before. Maybe it was caught before it was too late in other instances, but I can definitely see this happening.
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posted on
06/26/2023 7:23:15 AM PDT
by
FamiliarFace
(I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TPetty)
To: ChicagoConservative27
They could have made a grad-student clean the lab for the same price.
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posted on
06/26/2023 7:23:22 AM PDT
by
PGR88
To: dfwgator
AI is also capable of doing this kinda stuff.
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posted on
06/26/2023 7:27:18 AM PDT
by
C210N
(Everything will be okay in the end. If it’s not okay, it’s not the end.)
To: Yo-Yo
Perhaps the annoying beep was an alarm.
To: ChicagoConservative27
Me thinks there’s more to this story.
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posted on
06/26/2023 7:28:33 AM PDT
by
Baldwin77
(Be not deceived, God is not mocked)
To: dfwgator
LOL! Poor Timothy Leary!
Darn, all those viruses they created are dead… ;-(
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posted on
06/26/2023 7:30:11 AM PDT
by
Jan_Sobieski
(Sanctification)
To: Baldwin77
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posted on
06/26/2023 7:30:39 AM PDT
by
dforest
To: ChicagoConservative27
So there was a third-party cleaning service.
I suppose that at one time the university had custodians on staff who did the cleaning. Those folks might clean the same rooms for a decade. They usually knew what to do and what not do.
But it’s much cheaper to hire an outside company. Well, you get what you pay for.
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posted on
06/26/2023 7:30:45 AM PDT
by
Leaning Right
(The steal is real.)
To: ChicagoConservative27
How about $1. If it was so important, it would have had backup and more robust alarm reporting. My guess is the school is happy to have this gone, happy to have someone to blame for it going away.
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posted on
06/26/2023 7:31:07 AM PDT
by
Reno89519
(DeSantis in 2024. No Other Choice Works. Trump Needs to Stay Home and Endorse DeSantis.)
To: Jan_Sobieski
I wonder what was in that freezer.
If it were biological material, he may have done the world a favor.
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posted on
06/26/2023 7:32:18 AM PDT
by
metmom
(He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus!)
To: ChicagoConservative27
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posted on
06/26/2023 7:32:27 AM PDT
by
NohSpinZone
(First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers)
To: dforest
The janitor’s name wasn’t Joe or Hunter, was it?
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posted on
06/26/2023 7:35:29 AM PDT
by
chopperk
( C)
To: ChicagoConservative27
25 years of work is priced at a mere 1M$? was this the work of 1 grad student who’s advisor kept asking for ‘1 more thing?’
To: ChicagoConservative27
This is not that unusual. Labs and researchers always complain about this sort of thing. Always moaning about the inadequacy of their facilities. Then when we propose projects to fix it they never find them. Yet they always say how much money is at risk...why not take 3% of the supposed at risk revenue and fix the facility problems? Stop relying on 25 year old, neglected equipment. Doctors are not that smart
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posted on
06/26/2023 7:38:34 AM PDT
by
Bratch
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