Janitor heard 'annoying alarms' and turned off freezer, ruining 20 years of school research worth $1 million, lawsuit says | CNN
Janitor heard 'annoying alarms' and turned off freezer, ruining 20 years of school research worth $1 million, lawsuit says | CNN
A university janitor who turned off a freezer after hearing multiple “annoying alarms,” ruined more than 20 years of research, according to a lawsuit filed against his employer by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in upstate New York.
I can't wrap my head around the custodian's thought process. They were able to figure out which breaker to hit, but they couldn't read the note?
I can't imagine losing 20+ years of research to something so foolish. Then again, I also can't imagine not having an additional local redudancy for power failures (assuming they already had generators for the entire facility).
Only $1. Shows how little graduate student labor costs. I would think that this would be way more damage then that to replace the samples even if it was possible which it probably is not.
Employer: “We're not paying you to think!”
Janitor: doesn't think
Employer: surprised Pikachu