The scene is straight out of a black comedy: A janitor working in a lab is driven mad by an incessant beep, so they flip a switch that kills the sound – but also shuts off a storage freezer t…
Oh, I’m absolutely on board with it not being good enough. But I’ve had personal experience with janitorial staff just pulling the plug on the icp-ms at night as the noise was too loud. Customer kept wondering why the vacuum was so bad each morning and up to regular again right before they left, so we stayed longer and watched it happen. You can’t hide every plug, at some point people are meant to be taught what’s acceptable and what isn’t in the environment they work in.
I feel like actually flipping the breaker is a pretty intentional move. Not a “woops, we opened the door when we weren’t meant to”.
Oh, I’m absolutely on board with it not being good enough. But I’ve had personal experience with janitorial staff just pulling the plug on the icp-ms at night as the noise was too loud. Customer kept wondering why the vacuum was so bad each morning and up to regular again right before they left, so we stayed longer and watched it happen. You can’t hide every plug, at some point people are meant to be taught what’s acceptable and what isn’t in the environment they work in.
I feel like actually flipping the breaker is a pretty intentional move. Not a “woops, we opened the door when we weren’t meant to”.