We need help, Server Room Air Con died... Chairman cuts a hole in the wall for a fan!!!!!

Posted by Outrageous-Boss6324@reddit | talesfromtechsupport | View on Reddit | 212 comments

Our Air Con recently died in our server room, luckily it's basically a separate room in our office, thus we used our office air con with the server room door open hoping to get our Air Con replaced.... our chairman saw the quotes and decided to instead KNOCK A HOLE in the wall and put in a big old fan... not a particularly sealed unit.

Now at this point my boss and the CEO were on holiday. Myself and the other IT guy tried to explain this is a very bad idea and were essentially told to stay out the way and let them do it. Now we have a hole in our server room wall and a fan,

My boss flipped his lid obviously but our Chairman said it works. Currently it's now hotter in our server than outside and we still have to use our office air con to keep cool and the chairman still thinks his idea is excellent... both my boss and the CEO can not convince him to replace the air con....

Also to note we are a damn national company with a bunch of location but all IT is done from the head office and the equipment in the server room is worth roughly 100K to replace IF we take our time shopping around for the best quote... its a damn mess!!!!