This is on the fridge at work today.

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[–] 64 points 2 years ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] [S] 56 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    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...

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  • [–] 37 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    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?

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  • [–] [S] 13 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    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?

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 34 points 2 years ago

    Marge, can you set the oven to cold?

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  • [–] 22 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    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".

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years 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.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    The fridge’s name is Rob

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    "YOU HAD ONE JOB!"

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    I got dibs on the hot reddi whip!

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    Mmm… warm ranch dressing

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