TeamMisha t1_iwmzvyz wrote
If you don't believe ice machines get moldy take a look inside almost any machine in a white collar office kitchen. I never saw ours cleaned once in years until enough people noticed hmm that brown sludge on the walls doesn't look quite right lol. I think businesses and office have a habit of buying equipment and either assuming it'll magically maintain itself or never bother to setup proper maintenance
_allycat t1_iwpfj7n wrote
Employee turnover is one of the biggest factors imo how things get forgotten. Person who bought the ice machine probably trained the staff at that exact time it was installed. Lower level staff comes and goes nonstop so the people who would do cleaning and got the training are all gone instantly. Manager or whoever who bought it leaves eventually and never trains anyone about it or leaves instructions. There you go - instantly no one has any idea it has to be cleaned, or by who, or how.
TeamMisha t1_iwrvlv8 wrote
Oh absolutely, our office saw the same thing happen to these ipad knockoff terminals they installed on every conference room to book the rooms. They worked fine for a while and clearly we had staff who knew their functioning, then one by one after a while they'd go wonky, offline, or into a state where you could access the admin panel and mess with the Windows Embedded operating system. The original office designers and staff present when we moved in were all gone so no one had any idea who even to call to fix them lol
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