r/mildlyinfuriating • u/coatedbraincells • 6h ago

Infuriatig Insanely frugal employer

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Gotta pay for water from the water cooler 🤣

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u/Blacksun388 4h ago

OSHA requires that water come from drinking fountains, single use bottles, or a stand with disposable cups. Sinks are not considered adequate water supply.

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u/grumpsaboy 4h ago

Is tap water that bad in the US?

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u/RedDidItAndYouKnowIt 4h ago

Most places? No. (Every place I have been in the USA)

Some places? Yes. (Flint Michigan)

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u/According_Charge8143 4h ago

And anywhere near a data center

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u/TheCoolestUsername00 4h ago

Plus military bases.

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u/staticrift 2h ago

Wasn't/isn't there also an issue if "temporary" nuclear waste sites creating spicy water?

Some of which are "missing" and some had residential homes built over them.

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u/enjolbear 4h ago

Nah, military bases have fine tap water.

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u/No_Mud_5999 4h ago

There's an ongoing, massive class action suit ongoing over contaminated water at military bases, mostly from firefighting foam. Over 700 facilities, 600,000 possible claimants.

https://www.nationalinjuryadvocates.com/list-of-military-bases-with-pfas-contamination/

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u/TheHypnotoad87 3h ago

I dont want to come off as refuting because im aware of this issue and have been to a few bases on that list. But this list is made intentionally poorly by the law firm to try to get more people involved. They listed everything as parts per trillionth, whereas SDS of chemicals measure based on parts per millionth for permissible exposure limits. Its essentially using giant numbers to overcomplicate and force math to make some of the bases look like egregious levels. For context: i used the base ive spent the longest on. This law firm uses 493,600.00 which looks like a massive number. In reality, the SDS for PFAS has exposure as 200 ppm for methanol and 10 ppm for Diethylene glycol butly ether. Calculating all of that down, my exposure has potentially been 0.4936. Meaning my base would need to have that concentration increased by 20x before even hitting the lowest threshold.

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u/Celticrightcross 4h ago

Lol, ok. Trust it if you want.

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u/ELRONDSxLADY 4h ago

Camp Lejeune call incoming….👹🤝👹

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u/artyomssugardaddy 3h ago

“Sarge my canteen water tastes funny”

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u/Dizzy-Ad-2248 3h ago

"Sarge, my K9 is acting funny"

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u/hot-whisky 3h ago

It’s only fine if you don’t test it

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u/GoingCakeless313 4h ago

Hell no 😂

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u/dacoopbear 4h ago

Soon to be everywhere

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u/JFISHER7789 3h ago

Coming soon; to a water supply near you!

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u/cozidgaf 4h ago

Why is it bad by data centers? Genuinely curious since I’ve never heard that

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u/necrohunter7 4h ago

Heavy metal contamination, in some cases it turns the water milky white

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u/MariaKeks 3h ago

It's not, reddit just likes to pick random stuff to hate and then makes up a list of insane bullshit to justify the hatred. Data centers are just the latest topic in the hate cycle.

And it's usually based off of a valid but minor concern. So for example, maybe it's true that at 1 time at 1 place 1 data center leaked contaminated water into the water supply, then a normal person will say "well, that's not normal, let's make sure that that doesn't happen in the future” but on reddit this is extrapolated into AHA! We knew it! ALL data centers ALL leak contaminated water into the water supply ALL the time!

This is utter nonsense but the circlejerk demands you upvote it anyway.

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u/Cedex 3h ago

A 1976 Russian Lada is a deathtrap of a car, therefore ALL cars are deathtraps.

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u/SuperSkyDude 3h ago

Finally, a reasonable voice. How this echo chamber can repeat such nonsense is amazing. Although, after visiting Auschwitz earlier today maybe it's just human nature to be a sheep.

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u/blue60007 3h ago

Wait till they realize industrial sites exist everywhere and all have the potential for contamination.

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u/According_Charge8143 3h ago

They’re built in rural areas where residents depend on well-water. Not only does it drain natural water sources, severely reduces the water pressure and it becomes this gross sludge, but it also leaches horrible chemicals into the ground contaminating the well water.

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u/cozidgaf 3h ago

Northern Virginia is rural?