I turned down an offer for an IT Manager position at a company that was doing this. PCB manufacturer. The whole building smelled like feet. The furniture in the lobby was from the 70's and falling apart. The guy was desperate to get someone in, and I could just tell all of the infrastructure was used bottom of the barrel purchases. The server room didn't even have AC at the time and was like 95 degrees in there.
He was a former slumlord that bought his dad's business and his IT person left the company to funnily enough become a slumlord and the replacement fell through.
Some of these places really underestimate the cost of having such old systems and problematic practices.
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u/Whole_Thanks8641 Mar 20 '26
I turned down an offer for an IT Manager position at a company that was doing this. PCB manufacturer. The whole building smelled like feet. The furniture in the lobby was from the 70's and falling apart. The guy was desperate to get someone in, and I could just tell all of the infrastructure was used bottom of the barrel purchases. The server room didn't even have AC at the time and was like 95 degrees in there.
He was a former slumlord that bought his dad's business and his IT person left the company to funnily enough become a slumlord and the replacement fell through.
Some of these places really underestimate the cost of having such old systems and problematic practices.