{"id":179870,"date":"2024-01-05T03:22:32","date_gmt":"2024-01-05T09:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/janitor-attempts-to-turn-off-beeping-noise-destroys-research"},"modified":"2024-01-05T03:22:32","modified_gmt":"2024-01-05T09:22:32","slug":"janitor-attempts-to-turn-off-beeping-noise-destroys-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/janitor-attempts-to-turn-off-beeping-noise-destroys-research","title":{"rendered":"Janitor Attempts to Turn Off Beeping Noise, Destroys Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/janitor-attempts-to-turn-off-beeping-noise-destroys-research2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In an apparent attempt to turn off a beeping noise he allegedly deemed annoying, a janitor turned off the breaker to a freezer that contained extremely valuable cell cultures, samples, and other research.<\/p>\n<p>The freezer, which was set to minus-112 degrees Fahrenheit, as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesunion.com\/news\/article\/rpi-sues-cleaner-s-gaff-allegedly-destroyed-18164979.php\" class=\"\"><em>Times Union<\/em> reports<\/a>, warmed up to a catastrophic minus-25.6 degrees, damaging and destroying much of the decades of work.<\/p>\n<p>At least, that\u2019s what happened according to a lawsuit filed by the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute lab against the janitor\u2019s employer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an apparent attempt to turn off a beeping noise he allegedly deemed annoying, a janitor turned off the breaker to a freezer that contained extremely valuable cell cultures, samples, and other research. The freezer, which was set to minus-112 degrees Fahrenheit, as the Times Union reports, warmed up to a catastrophic minus-25.6 degrees, damaging [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}