Another workplace microwave damaged

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Today someone put something in a foil tray in the microwave. Stunk the place out.

This is about the 5th employer in my career where someone has damaged a microwave

Do these people put foil in their microwaves at home?

I know someone who once put their coat in the microwave because it was still wet from coming into work that morning and they needed to go back out. Amazingly the microwave carried on working afterwards. One of my colleagues did ask the person in question if that is the type of thing that they would do at home and they replied: "Well no, obviously, I have more than one coat at home!"

They walk among us...

Must have been a very small coat…

One of our very senior directors put a mince pie in the microwave in its foil tray.

Utterly baffling.

It was one of those kagoule-type things.

My microwave says it is safe to use foil trays inside as long as the foil doesn't touch the sides and the tray isn't ridged. Apparently most modern microwaves can. So yes, your coworker might put foil trays in at home.

My microwave can take metal not sure if it’s a brand thing

Someone tried to cook a whole chicken from scratch in the office microwave once.

Another woman put a bagel in for about 20 minutes and caused a noxious fire.

Someone I used to work with knocked a cup of coffee over his phone and put it in the microwave to dry. Microwave survived phone didn't

At school, we finally got a new microwave and second day a teacher warmed up fish and chips in the paper bag and set the smoke alarms off (and stunk the place out). It was a science teacher.

mine didn't like the foil with butter I once popped in for 20 seconds to melt, and once at work, I used a rice packet that I didn't realise that couldn't go in the microwave because of the metal. Each time I stopped it immediately and took it out. Same microwave at home still lives to tell the tale.

I broke my home microwave within 10 seconds because I didn’t realise a mug had a small foiled line within the pattern on the side.

We replaced it with one that’s both a microwave and grill. Putting metal in it to use the grill function still feels really wrong.

I had a colleague once who screwed up at least two toasters because she would butter bread then out it into the toaster so the butter would go all melty. before the toasters finally gave up the smell in the kitchen was just of rancid butter for weeks.

Another colleague killed a microwave by putting in an un-opened tin of tuna in to hear up for his lunch. He was a 40-year old solicitor so in theory had some brains, and/or was old enough to know better.

One of my DC, an adult who works full time, is competent, no LD, is able to cook full blown meals etc didnt know you couldnt put foil in the microwave!

Was only when someone as work saw them putting their homemade wrap for lunch still in the tinfoil to be heated up that they learnt they couldnt do that.

They rang me in honest surprise that it wasnt something they could do. I was shocked! They had never tried to cook something in foil in the microwave before so genuinely didnt know you couldnt! My mind was blown..

We had similar, with someone who tried to toast a cheese panini.

I heard once on a thread like this of a poster who had a colleague who used to use the office kettle to make herself a boiled egg.

That angered me for so many reasons- not least because I have a cousin with a severe egg allergy. She'd hardly be expected to be wary of her cup of tea.