Rotten Office Food Sickens 28 Employees!
Go open your office refrigerator right now. I bet there's a dried out faccia bread sandwich, a wilted chef's salad and a Yoo-Hoo, circa 1979-ish.
Actually, don't look! Because your boss may ask you to clean it out and your health benefits probably don't include hazard pay.
That's why you got to feel for the 28 employees of a San Jose, California office building who were overcome by the fumes from old rotting food.
Seven of the workers at the AT&T building were taken to a local hospital after trying to clean up the mess. The stink was so vile that the San Jose Fire Department's hazmat team were dispatched to the location.
Believe it or not, they were concerned about a terrorism attempt. A total of 50 fire-fighters and 18 emergency responders arrived at the scene, and were greeted by 325 employees standing out in the parking lot.
In the end, the hazmat team discovered no toxins, but they suspect the rotting food - whatever it was - coupled with the solvents used to clean it up created a strange brew, causing people to puke their brains out.
I wish I knew the recipe. I got a noisy neighbor!
Via Mercury News.
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Ok, that is just the grossest thing I've heard all week!
ReplyI read about this somewhere else & I am with ya Shauna!!!!
ReplyPuleeze, it wasn't rotten food. It's because whoever decided to clean it out didn't realize that you can't use both bleach and ammonia. Got chlorine gas? Now you know how to get some.
Hint: Know your chemicals! And don't mix.
ReplyI read about this too. I'm betting that the people involved that got sick got ill because the person cleaning the fridge mixed several cleaners together that probably smelled pretty terrible. I'm sure the moldy stuff would be pretty nasty too.
Our office fridge is actually not that bad. Mostly people just stash their lunches in there and take them out to eat them. We do have quite a nice stockpile of soy sauces and hot mustards from the Chinese takeout that some people get every now and then.
ReplyNo one person takes responsibility for cleaning the office fridge. The cleaners ignore it and the staff know they are not paid enough to do that! At home I know its my job, but in an office who is really going to do it.
ReplyMy old office used to "clean out the fridge" at the end of every month. Really, they just threw out all of the food. The same jelly stain was there for 6 months.
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