Water from cooler at work - fishy smell - WHY?

[conjur]

Got some water from the cooler at work today and it has a fishy smell. I know it's filtered but maybe the filter needs to be changed?

 

[yoda291]

someone peed in the bottle. 😀

 

[MistaTastyCakes]

Eww. Our fridge at my job smells like ass but nobody can find what's making the smell. 🙁

 

[Brutuskend]

Does the cooler look something like this?

If so, I think I found the answer.

 

[MrBond]

Do they have city water there? Sometimes when there's been a lot of sun, bacteria levels skyrocket (not harmful, they just make it taste bad) and they can't control it with chlorine (I think).

That usually happens in mid-summer though, not early spring.

 

[conjur]

Originally posted by: MrBond
Do they have city water there? Sometimes when there's been a lot of sun, bacteria levels skyrocket (not harmful, they just make it taste bad) and they can't control it with chlorine (I think).

That usually happens in mid-summer though, not early spring.

Not sure how the water gets in there. :Q

And, it's been very wet here this spring. Lots of rain.

 

[Encryptic]

Originally posted by: conjur
Got some water from the cooler at work today and it has a fishy smell. I know it's filtered but maybe the filter needs to be changed?

Filter might need to be changed or cleaned? Maybe there's algae buildup somewhere in the system. ::shrug:: I'd get someone in to check it out if possible.

 

[clamum]

Originally posted by: conjur
Got some water from the cooler at work today and it has a fishy smell. I know it's filtered but maybe the filter needs to be changed?

Perhaps a lady's private area graced the suspected "fishy" water?

 

[GoingUp]

Originally posted by: Encryptic

Originally posted by: conjur
Got some water from the cooler at work today and it has a fishy smell. I know it's filtered but maybe the filter needs to be changed?

Filter might need to be changed or cleaned? Maybe there's algae buildup somewhere in the system. ::shrug:: I'd get someone in to check it out if possible.

 

[dighn]

chlorinate it

 

[Electric Amish]

Originally posted by: conjur
Got some water from the cooler at work today and it has a fishy smell. I know it's filtered but maybe the filter needs to be changed?

Probably have the beginnings of some algae growth.

amish

 

[Jzero]

Could be cup. Try a different kind of cup. We got some really strange smelling plastic cups once and for like two weeks we thought it was the water filter, but then someone noticed it was the cups...

 

[conjur]

Originally posted by: Jzero
Could be cup. Try a different kind of cup. We got some really strange smelling plastic cups once and for like two weeks we thought it was the water filter, but then someone noticed it was the cups...

I did use one of those cheap plastic cups that were stacked next to the cooler...hmmm.

 

[GroundZero]

Originally posted by: MistaTastyCakes
Eww. Our fridge at my job smells like ass but nobody can find what's making the smell. 🙁

that's where i left that hunk of ASS!
it's just a little hunk of old moldy ASS!
it won't bite
too hard

 

[Encryptic]

Originally posted by: americangigolo

Originally posted by: conjur
Got some water from the cooler at work today and it has a fishy smell. I know it's filtered but maybe the filter needs to be changed?

Perhaps a lady's private area graced the suspected "fishy" water?

I thought he was talking about a water cooler, not a douchebag? :Q

 

[Jugernot]

Originally posted by: Brutuskend
Does the cooler look something like this?

If so, I think I found the answer.

MuHAHAHAHAAHAHA! 😀

 

[Yossarian]

take the cooler apart, there's something growing in there. we used to have one that looked fine on all visible surfaces, but the lines to the valves were totally green with algae. pretty gross. so rather than have it cleaned my genius company got rid of the cooler, and I got blamed for us not having free water anymore because I was the first to notice it.

 

[Encryptic]

Originally posted by: PipBoy
take the cooler apart, there's something growing in there. we used to have one that looked fine on all visible surfaces, but the lines to the valves were totally green with algae. pretty gross. so rather than have it cleaned my genius company got rid of the cooler, and I got blamed for us not having free water anymore because I was the first to notice it.

I'm reminded of a story I heard some time back:

This guy worked at a restaurant, and one day he kept getting complaints about the iced tea being cloudy. So, he and another guy take the iced tea cooler apart, only to find a HUGE dead water beetle jammed in the spigot, holding a clutch of eggs leaking white crap into the tea.

Eeeeeugghhhh.

<----Thankful that he doesn't like iced tea

 

[conjur]

Appears they've cleaned it or fixed it otherwise. Forgot my bottled water today and took a chance.

Tastes ok.

 

[TheCorm]

Good way of saving company money is to just put tap water in those coolers....or....in your company's case....the old drained water from the MD's personal fish tank and/or pond.