Lights Out.

It would seem that the thieves can't do nearly as much damage as the used car salesman. He noticed that a bunch of lights were on in the offices last Thursday. It was late, and not many people were around, so he took it upon himself to shut them off and save the Mecca some money on their electricity bill. Of course, he did so by flipping the breaker that controlled the power to half of the building. The half of the building that contained the freezers. The freezers containing something like $100k in newly acquired reagents, special reagents, lovingly procured, signed for by Swiper himself.

Friday morning came along, and the entire biology group spent the morning try to figure out why the alarm on every freezer was screaming at them, while the the heavy equipment in the engineering lab was fully functional. Apparently it was due to the fact that engineers are more likely to shut the lights off when they leave the room.

They probably should fire him. Of course, the last I heard the used car salesman wasn't actually getting paid. I think that he was working for toilet paper, rather than cash. I once heard it said, "If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys." So, does that mean if you pay in toilet paper you get ... Do I need to fill this in?

Is a used car salesman better than a petty thief?

The petty thief, formerly know as the CFO will have to wait for the next post. It would seem, though, his ghost still wandering the Mecca.