[Libs-Or] WARNING: touchless hand sanitizer machine alert!

[Rhonda Alderman]

Omigosh, thank you for that, Dan... I really needed a laugh today.  (Though it probably wasn't a laugh for y'all at the time...)
Great detective work!
Cheers,
R


Rhonda Alderman

Dora Badollet Library, Technical Services

Clatsop Community College

1680 Lexington Avenue, Astoria, Oregon 97103

503-338-2508   ralderman at clatsopcc.edu

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Subject: [Libs-Or] WARNING: touchless hand sanitizer machine alert!

Hello:

Fun times in Seaside.

Part of our morning protocol is to test the touchless hand sanitizing dispensers.  Oddly, neither machine was functioning this morning.

We switched out the C batteries.  Still not working.

Hurm...

In the past, we had several new boxes of worthless/expired C batteries.  Maybe we were putting bad batteries back into the machines?*

Our office hand soap dispensers are also touchless and run on C batteries.  Oddly, neither of the hand soap dispensers were working this morning, either.

What are the odds?  Infinitesimal.

After trying every battery in the building, we made a special trip to Rite-Aid for fresh, fancy, Duracell C batteries.

Even with Duracells, all four dispensers still not working!!!

(Insert foul language here).

To make a long story longer....we miraculously deduced that the touchless laser switches do not respond to jet-black nitrile gloves.

Both persons attempting to fix the machines were wearing black gloves.  The batteries didn't need replacement.  The gloves needed replacement.

Fun fact:  they work just fine with blue gloves.

Don't be like Seaside.  Test your soap and sanitizer machines without black gloves.

TLDR,

dan cawley
hand sanitizer technician




Daniel D. Cawley
Seaside Public Library
1131 Broadway
Seaside, Oregon  97138
503.738.6742

www.seasidelibrary.org<http://www.seasidelibrary.org/>


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