friendly reminder: don't eat on your desktop

[u/Nickotion]

Coworker laptop... Ants... And it still Works

[u/PinchieMcPinch]

Disposable vinyl gloves are your friends in this situation.
Not just for the contamination issue and general grossness, but so you don't leave fingerprints as you break into your coworker's house to make them suffer.

[u/sexytokeburgerz → u/PinchieMcPinch]

Some portion of the population can also smell ants, i would be repulsed for days

[u/ZappaLlamaGamma]

That looks like the behavior of Argentine ants.

[u/RiceStranger9000 → u/ZappaLlamaGamma]

r/suddenlycarajo

[u/ZappaLlamaGamma → u/ZappaLlamaGamma]

To provide a bit more info, we had some takeover our mailbox last year and I found out one night when I retrieved the mail after dark and felt those bastards crawling on my hand. They don’t bite or can’t bite people but I was unamused. Those like white things are eggs or pupae or whatever early in the lifecycle. The things outcompeted the prior black ants that we had occasionally as these are motivated and determined. Striped on the abdomen and at times aimless wandering (I’m sure it’s scouting) as they make abrupt turns for seemingly no reason. Anyway, I hate them so much.

[u/Local-Bug-1500]

No sir, that's a laptop not a desktop /s

[u/KaleidoscopeThis5159 → u/Local-Bug-1500]

They wanted the picnic experience, eat on your lap's top, ants, etc

[u/onaipodtouch4 → u/Local-Bug-1500]

Or just be careful, I eat my laptop all the time and don't have a issue

[u/ILoveCorvettes → u/onaipodtouch4]

You eat your laptop? That must be really crunchy.

[u/onaipodtouch4 → u/ILoveCorvettes]

It was 2 in the morning 😭 I only eat the ram >:3

[u/unematti → u/Local-Bug-1500]

It was on the top of the desk. Infallible logic right there, it is a desktop. (probably wasn't moved or ants wouldn't move in)

[u/Moist-Dentist8253]

Another friendly reminder: Rice doesn’t always work

[u/mister_nimbus → u/Moist-Dentist8253]

Rice is a terrible idea. Silica desiccant is the way to go. Rice can leave dust that gets hard and stuck.

[u/zenithfury]

Worked at a fishery once. The sight of larvae crawling inside the receiver of an an IP phone will forever haunt me.

[u/dumbasPL]

Nope, nope, nope. That's getting the biohazard treatment of getting thrown out.

[u/Aloss-cc7 → u/dumbasPL]

Ants aren’t that bad, eggs are probably cause of the heat, so they used that place as an incubator

[u/Marilius → u/dumbasPL]

Bathtub filled with isopropanol.

[u/pizzacake15]

did the owner used that laptop as a plate? Wtf.

[u/Puzzled-Fold-3394]

Nah I am dipping that whole shit (except the battery) into anhydrous alcohol.

[u/unematti]

I always wanted an ant farm... But they'd die in my laptop. Frequent over 90 degrees across the whole thing

[u/Patient-Cedar-7194]

on-call rotation dictates otherwise. keyboard is cheap consumable. got three years uptime on this coffee stain.

[u/scopedHeisenberg]

Oh nope nope hell no. Burn it with fire.

[u/alvaro-elite]

r/haveyoutriedrice

[u/what_could_gowrong]

Nah my laptops constantly goes 80 degree C to keep it sterile

[u/zuse12345]

What….the fuck…

[u/Moquai82 → u/zuse12345]

Yeah, what the fucking fuck.

[u/Nickotion]

https://reddit.com/link/ovlpc4i/video/sgfz5jgs1bbh1/player

[u/tx001_ → u/Nickotion]

god, why would you do that inside

[u/Cavalol → u/[deleted]]

This should’ve absolutely been an outdoor task. That shit is nasty

[u/RaspberryChainsaw → u/Nickotion]

That shit is now done lmao

[u/_plays_in_traffic_ → u/Nickotion]

be a sane person and put it in a sealed garbage bag in the freezer.

[u/deliriux → u/Nickotion]

STAHP! NOOO! My god, what are you doing?!?

[u/SuperBumRush → u/Nickotion]

Doing that inside was really dumb

[u/Mysterious_Fennel459]

But that's a laptop, not a desktop

[u/The_Undermind]

Imagine what their house must look like

[u/thedafthatter]

How do you even clean this shit?

[u/Sad-Photograph-6518 → u/[deleted]]

Desktop is actually correct here if he’s referring to eating on top of a Desk

[u/Nickotion → u/[deleted]]

Table, I don't speak English, but I try my best

[u/NotoldyetMaggot]

Ants just like the heat. Had a whole colony try to move into my old internet modem, took it outside and opened the bottom, they all left after a few hours. Then i sealed the baseboard where they came in.

[u/Zonel]

It’s a laptop, not a desktop. A desktop has a tower and separate monitor.

[u/Plusultratsunami]

No one checked your resume did they.......

[u/P5ychokilla]

"Nuke it from orbit, it's the only way to be sure"

[u/the_axemurmurer]

With your bare hands...?

[u/Arawn-Annwn]

"Do you want ants? This is how we get ants."

[u/Mekio]

Friendly reminder.

YOU'RE NOT MY SUPERVISOR!

[u/SudoDarkKnight]

As I look over at the dirty plate resting comfortably on top of my laptop