Oh my god. There was even a sign. And a lockbox around the outlet. Decades of research destroyed.
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@histoftech Alternative take - extremely bad lab management to place 20 years of research at risk from a failed circuit breaker. Lots of not particularly expensive options, like a UPS or even distributing the cultures to multiple freezers on different circuits. Seems like they're looking for scapegoats here.
@histoftech OK, instead of failed let's substitute "mistakenly switched off". My point is that this was an obvious vulnerability that could easily have been mitigated. If someone could ruin their research by tripping a breaker, how were they protected against power outages?
@twitskeptic yeah that isn’t what happened though