“What is insane is that if all this work was so valuable, that the University didn’t have alarms for the freezer.”
What’s also insane is having a freezer that won’t SHUT THE HELL UP.
My refrigerator at home starts beeping if the door is left open for longer than 30 seconds. It's very annoying when I'm standing there with the door open, looking for something to graze on at 2 am...
Bingo. I have worked in an environment where every instrument manufacturer wanted the most obnoxious noise maker they could get.
There was masking tape over some of them.
It’s like the “tic toc” signal at Sellafield in Great Britain they broadcast over the PA system. I’d have to go home and stick my head in the oven after 1 day there.