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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