An IT Employee Was All About Saving Energy, Until The Landlord Crossed Him — Then He Got Payback
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Using energy costs money, and depending on how you are getting that energy, it could also be bad for the planet.
In this story, an IT worker tried to conserve energy at his company by powering everything down at night, but when the landlord refused to pay for a repair he was supposed to pay for, the employee decided to rethink his energy-conserving ways.
He finds the results of his pettiness very satisfying.
Keep reading for all the details.
Slumlord Refuses to pay for $400 building maintenance – pays thousands in electricity instead
My business moved into a fairly nice building that was recently purchased by a company out of a big city.
We were fine for a while even with building maintenance and ownership being pretty slow to respond to some minor issues.
Little while ago the AC unit that happens to sit above our unit in the ceiling started leaking into the unit.
Lease specifically says building HVAC is covered but landlord refused to reimburse us for the work that we had to have done to stop the leak. He told us to “sue him” knowing damn well 400 is not worth our time.
He decided to be petty.
I consider myself a fair person, albeit a little petty.
We’re an IT company and although we have a server rack I have configured our environment to use as little power as possible even though our power is included in the cost of the lease.
Two reasons. 1. It’s good for the planet. 2. It’s reasonable to save the building money by shutting down unneeded servers during off peak times.
He decided there was no reason to shut everything down.
Well, after that little discussion I decided that the rack of servers we have don’t really need to be spun up and down every day to save the building money.
That alone is worth at least 100/month in hydro.
But then I was standing there infront of the rack yesterday looking at my 4U server filled with GPUs for password cracking thinking… most people use these for crypto mining but stopped because of expensive hydro.
So now I’ve got a couple spare servers running some Monero mining at full tilt 24/7, i’ve got a couple VMs that spin up over night to do some monero mining(not very effective in a VM for generating crypto but very handy for driving up hydro costs) and then our nice password cracking server filled with GPUs is doing some etherium mining.
He feels pretty satisfied with his pettiness.
I’m not 100% sure how much power we’re using but my preliminary calculations put it around 500/month.
And THAT I find particularly delicious.
Personally I have no need for any of this crypto so I figured this would be a nice opportunity to support the local food bank with monetary donations from our mining operation.
WIN – WIN – WIN.
I love that he plans to use his petty behavior for good.
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Let’s see how Reddit responded.
Here’s an interesting idea.
This is a good question.
This person loves the petty revenge.
Here are some suggestions to make the electric bill even more expensive.
The landlord deserves that! I hope he notices the jump in the electric bill, and I hope it hurts. He may or may not realize it’s revenge, but this revenge could get very expensive.
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