Every American has been there since the invention of the modern-day smoke detector.
Even though there are no signs of fire or smoke, that annoying smoke alarm keeps beeping while you are trying to get some rest.
Every American is intimately aware of groggily going to the alarm and either turning it off or removing its batteries given how common the scenario mentioned above is.
Most Americans, however, are not aware of the situation where the journey to stop the constant beeping ends up costing a million dollars.
A janitor at Troy, New York’s Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute took it upon himself to turn off a freezer that was continuously beeping and ended up in that nearly impossible situation.
The lawsuit RPI filed against Daigle Cleaning Services, the outside cleaning company the research university utilizes and which employs the janitor in question, was obtained by The Albany Times Union.
The complaint claims that these catastrophic “whoopsies” occurred on September 17, 2020, however, the actual cause was a few days before.
When the alarm on the aforementioned freezer initially falsely sounded on September 14, 2020 (the alarm is designed to sound when the samples inside the freezer reach specific temperature milestones), RPI believed the problem had been fixed.
Repairs were requested by the professor in charge of the research, but they were postponed due to lockdowns and the ongoing COVID-19 epidemic.
According to the lawsuit, a note with instructions on how to silence the malfunctioning alarm was left close to the freezer.
“THIS FREEZER IS BEEPING AS IT IS UNDER REPAIR. PLEASE DO NOT MOVE OR UNPLUG IT. NO CLEANING REQUIRED IN THIS AREA. YOU CAN PRESS THE ALARM/TEST MUTE BUTTON FOR 5-10 SECONDS IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO MUTE THE SOUND,” the note read, according to the lawsuit.
The janitor allegedly turned off the noise by turning a circuit breaker after becoming “annoyed” with the beeping.
According to the lawsuit, when that circuit breaker was flipped, it also shut off or reset the freezer unit, causing the samples within to reach lethal temperatures.
The lawsuit said that despite the team’s best efforts to salvage the samples in the freezer, “a majority of specimens were compromised, destroyed and rendered unsalvageable demolishing more than 20 years of research.”
Michael Ginsburg, one of the attorneys representing RPI, actually described the incident as having cost the laboratory even more than 20 years of research.
“People’s behavior and negligence caused all this. Unfortunately, they wiped out 25 years of research,” Ginsberg said.
Regardless of how many years of scientific progress were lost, Ginsburg estimated the cost of recreating the lost research would be $1 million.
RPI sues janitor for hitting light switch? Really? What kind of lessons does this give students? Blame others for your incompetence? Ignore best practices when it comes to engineering & research management?
Really? #stupidity #incompetence pic.twitter.com/b4nbkLr5Lk— Civil Squares (@CIVILsquares) June 25, 2023
It’s important to remember that RPI is suing Daigle for specific financial losses.
Interestingly, the Times Union noted that after a round of interrogation, the janitor looked to be guiltless and believed that by turning off the beeping, he had done the institute a favor.
The experiment in question, which was described as potentially affecting solar panels, was centered on investigating photosynthesis.
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