I worked at a place where someone (who we never caught) put some chocolate coffee-bean-look-alike candy from Trader Joes in the grinder. All the new peeps (myself included) got 'blamed' for being ignorant, and lots of signs went up. I hate signs because the can never anticipate all scenarios.
My next work place had someone try to cook bacon in the toaster oven. As it turns out, this is not a viable way of frying bacon and it caught the toaster and part of a cabinet on fire. Later that month the building management started doing regular fire drills. We'd take the opportunity to tell the story about Mike and his bacon as we stood on the street.
I'd say people were idiots, but that's a negative view practiced ineffectively by the first place. I'd rather see it more like people incorrectly assume what they are doing is right, and never question if its not. Silly humans.
Signs are also stupid because they're built on two faulty assumptions: one, that the morons read them, and two, that the mistakes of the future will be carbon copies of mistakes of the past. There's no bacon frying sign over the toaster oven at my work, and I've seen people cook bacon in the kitchen. But there's a sign over the sink listing things that shouldn't go down it, as if nobody has one of these things at home.
I cook bacon in the toaster oven all the time... it's the best way. As long as your toaster oven can maintain 425F / 215C constant temperature (rather than having the element on permanently) you end up with beautiful moist but cooked bacon without it being crispy and burnt.
My previous workplace had someone attempt to cook a ribeye steak in the toaster oven.
It actually worked, but management was angry the third time he pulled it and set a flat no-meat-cooking policy on the toaster oven (enforced via clipart signs).
My next work place had someone try to cook bacon in the toaster oven. As it turns out, this is not a viable way of frying bacon and it caught the toaster and part of a cabinet on fire. Later that month the building management started doing regular fire drills. We'd take the opportunity to tell the story about Mike and his bacon as we stood on the street.
I'd say people were idiots, but that's a negative view practiced ineffectively by the first place. I'd rather see it more like people incorrectly assume what they are doing is right, and never question if its not. Silly humans.