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This is on the fridge at work today.

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[-] MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 64 points 8 months ago

It makes me wonder why they didn't just unplug it and put up an "out of order" sign instead lol

[-] BallShapedMan@lemmy.world 56 points 8 months ago

Last year it took 6 months to get water to stop leaking in my office, so yeah I'm just excited the note is charming...

[-] Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 8 points 8 months ago

You should have got a little downspout to put it into someone else's office. That's pretty much what they did to you

[-] BallShapedMan@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago

In Nate's office, he deserves it! Lol

[-] The_Tired_Horizon@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

I've been waiting 6 years for our Trust to fix our work equipment and the access areas we use ...they spend as low an amount as they can only for stuff to fail again

[-] merc@sh.itjust.works 37 points 8 months ago

Whoever wrote that note isn't great at communication.

"The refrigerator is currently heating items." Ok... does this mean it is broken? Or is the heating intentional and this is just a warning not to put things in it that you don't want heated up? Is this heating up phase meant to stop anytime soon?

"Thank you for your time and consideration," for what? Reading the note? Is this a request that the refrigerator be fixed? Or is it merely a warning to other people? If we're meant to assume that the fridge is broken, has someone in charge been informed?

[-] BallShapedMan@lemmy.world 13 points 8 months ago

All good points! I put in the ticket to get it fixed after eating questionable chicken the previous day, I survived so yay me.

Whoever put the note up wasn't part of facilities I found out that, they were just trying to be clever. Facilities wrote a hand written note on it saying they know and are waiting for parts.

[-] Empricorn@feddit.nl 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

This *raises more questions. Did you take your chicken out of the fridge and not notice it was warm? Did you put it in the microwave?

[-] BallShapedMan@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

I noticed the bag was warm, then I noticed my salad fixings (all in separate containers) were warm, then I put my hand in the fridge and saw it was warm. I then contemplated eating the chicken or not and decided it's been 20+ years since the last time I've had food poisoning and ate the chicken.

I then put it in a working fridge and have eaten from it 3 more times.

[-] Empricorn@feddit.nl 4 points 8 months ago

Wow, braver than me. Food poisoning is one thing, but the risk of salmonella!? I don't fuck with that...

[-] BallShapedMan@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

Probably dodged a bullet there. I feel a little like Neo.

[-] Everythingispenguins@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

I feel like you have a job where you get "broken please" fix tickets.

[-] Empricorn@feddit.nl 1 points 8 months ago

Haha, I bet they totally do! I get tickets where the title is "n/a" or blank or "broken" with no item or details. Drives me crazy!

[-] son_named_bort@lemmy.world 34 points 8 months ago

Marge, can you set the oven to cold?

[-] Neato@ttrpg.network 22 points 8 months ago

I'm trying to figure out what kind of defect would cause that. The heating elements of a fridge, the air exchange that has the hotter refrigerant, are all outside the box I believe. If the compressor fails, the refrigerant doesn't move and doesn't move heat. So it'd just be an insulated box, right? I think that'd get hotter an ambient but I'm not sure I'd say it's "heating".

[-] moody@lemmings.world 37 points 8 months ago

If the compressor dies but the evaporator tray is still heating, it would definitely cause the fridge to warm up.

[-] HikingVet@lemmy.ca 3 points 8 months ago

Also if the TXV goes it could cause that.

[-] marcos@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago

Some malfunction on the control of defrosting. Or maybe it's powered by Peltier elements.

[-] gnate@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

Thermoelectric was my first thought, since it can heat or cool, to maintain a set point, warm food, or chill beverages, as implemented in some fancy lunch boxes. I didn't know if the same applies at this scale, but I'm assuming this unit uses a compressor.

[-] marcos@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

Something of this size should absolutely use a compressor.

But there's a difference between "should" and "does", and the fact that failed into heating changes that expectation a lot.

[-] usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 5 points 8 months ago

I've seen this happen when the condenser coil is outside and during electrical work to the building the phases were swapped so the unit essentially ran in reverse.

[-] Revan343@lemmy.ca 4 points 8 months ago

That can only happen on 3 phase though, which a small fridge generally is not

[-] usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 6 points 8 months ago

Correct. The picture is not great, but you can see the racking that implies there's at least one other door so this could be a larger commercial fridge running 3 phase

[-] Revan343@lemmy.ca 2 points 8 months ago

Oh yeah, looking closer I think you're right

[-] where_am_i@sh.itjust.works 3 points 8 months ago

just install the compressor in reverse and done you got a heater.

[-] Neato@ttrpg.network 2 points 8 months ago

Yep. But you can just install a valve for the refrigerant and that's how you get a selectable heat pump.

[-] EdibleFriend@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

Clearly it's tapped into an alternate dimension of pure heat.

[-] Zier@fedia.io 19 points 8 months ago

It was jealous of the microwave and wanted to be "hot" as well.

[-] herrcaptain@lemmy.ca 6 points 8 months ago

But in its quest to be hot, it became no longer cool.

[-] Zier@fedia.io 4 points 8 months ago

True, but it's still using the facade of being cool why pursuing the goal of being hot. Never realizing that it can never be smoking hot like the Microwave. Does anyone else smell popcorn burning? No? Just me?

[-] Adramis@lemmy.world 14 points 8 months ago
[-] BallShapedMan@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

Oh damn, that's fantastic! That's a much better name than Rob lol

[-] underwire212@lemm.ee 8 points 8 months ago

The fridge’s name is Rob

[-] TragicNotCute@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

And he loves you

[-] PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 6 points 8 months ago

"YOU HAD ONE JOB!"

[-] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 5 points 8 months ago

I got dibs on the hot reddi whip!

[-] 1995ToyotaCorolla@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

Mmm… warm ranch dressing

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