#fridges

[inbabylontheywept]

The Fridges. Oh My God, The Fridges.

This is a continuation of the last piece I wrote on the weird shit that happens in classified facilities. The building I work in has somewhere around 30-35 people in it. It also has around 20 fridges. There's kind of a saga that goes into this, so I'll start with the first part: The Hoarding.

The building has an insane overabundance of space. They just keep adding new rooms every time an old room needs an update, so it just sprawls on forever. There's also an extremely limited ability to get anyone who does not work full time in the building, into the building. This means that while we work on missiles, we also clean our own desks and vacuum the floors and mop and all of those other tasks that most places would consider "non-engineer work." This is fine if it's something anyone with a body can do, but this causes problems when you're looking at the physical limits of engineers. Namely, we are not very muscular people.

Thus, if something needs to get manhandled into a space, it gets manhandled by whatever group of nerds you can bribe, threaten, or guilt into joining you. When a fridge dies, it is a motherfucker to remove it from the building, so they often just...didn't. What they did instead was get the fridges onto dolleys, which isn't too bad, wheel those dolleys to the elevator, and then park them in a relatively empty part of the basement that we shall call The Graveyard of Fridges. This wasn't originally meant to be a permanent solution, but when you have space but lack muscles, it can become permanent really fast. Eventually, someone realized that you can padlock the fronts of the fridges and use them as document storage, which has the added perk of meaning that the people on site don't have to assemble more filing cabinets. Everyone here hates assembling filing cabinets. It's fucking terrible. (It is worth noting that in this era, you would occasionally get directions to a secret file that looked like "1970's model, lime green, left crisper.")

We will call this the peak of the Hoarding Era. It is followed by the Mechanical Engineering Era.

Around 2015, it was realized that the group needed engineers familiar with industrial machinery, and not just standard electronics, so mechanical engineers (MEs) began to get hired. The new ME's made it a sort of rite of passage for proceeding new hires to repair an old fridge. So the site went from having 4 functioning fridges and 15ish being used for document storage to around 15 functioning fridges and 4 used for file storage.

Every time a fridge got fixed, people just put them back on the dolley, wheeled them back in the elevator, and got them wedged in their personal office spaces. If you were a bigwig, you might be able to get dibs on your own personal fridge, and if you were a new guy confined to the cubicle jungle you might have to share one with four or five other guys. But it was still a ludicrous amount of fridge space.

And that is how a base with 35 people on it wound up with 15 fridges.

[apollohour]

okay since i recently realised this probably isn't normal

How many fridges do you have in your house (that are used/that you own)

With these options:

0

1

1

3

4+

Nuance

Results

Do mini-fridges count? (No.)

Notes:

Don't count freezers separately, if its one object its one fridge

How many fridges do you have in your house (that are used/that you own)

0

1

2

3

4+

Nuance

Results

Do mini-fridges count? (No.)

Voting ended onOct 22, 2025

[n0isy-gh0st]

I’m very correct about this

[custom-dolly]

AAAAAAA I LOVE MAKING DOLL SIZED FRIDGES!!!!!!!

[food-cake]

so hear me out: all fridges on earth suddenly gain sentience, sprouting muscly human arms and legs from out of their sides, then run out into the streets and rampage through the towns, killing every human on the planet and becoming the dominant species on earth. but then they have nothing left to kill so they start to fight each other, and form a hierarchy based on who beats the most of their fellow fridges

do u see my vision

[high-quality-tiktoks]

gee the wee flower some sunlight, it’s prolly dein fur some aw na-tu-ral photosynthesis x

[fourovcups]

Found on the work fridge today