> Companies try to cheap out all the time, in incredibly stupid ways.
Yeah, and sometimes that results in someone turning their freezers into ovens. I don't think we disagree on this bit.
Grocery store owner A's revenue last year was €500,000. Its profit was €0. It does not have an IT department because it's a corner shop that employs 2 people and has one computer.
Grocery store owner B's revenue last year was €50,000,000,000. Its profit was €0. It has an IT department because it's a huge fucking corporation with a thousand massive stores, multiple office blocks, 150,000 employees and all of the networking and IT infrastructure an operation of that size needs. It's considering opening a bank.
The number that tells you the difference between the scales of these two companies is the revenue, not the profit.
I need to stop wasting my time on the pit of ignorance this site has become.
I have worked at several different companies, of various sizes. One place sold equipment, 1 machine was between 100 ~ 250k, they usually sold 10 or so a month so revenue would be ~12 million. IT department was 1 guy, he eventually was able to get a helper.
Another place I worked at used to have IT on site at every location, they cut that as a cost savings. It became a small team at corporate HQ, then was outsourced after that. Regional offices and factories worldwide.
A story about their policies; They decided to ban USB drives in the name of security but there was equipment that you needed to get data off that could not be put on the network. Their solution was "Get a computer that we not controlled by IT, Login to Teams on that computer and use it to send the files to yourself."
This is a company that has over 5 billion dollars in revenue...
I think neither revenue nor profit can give you a good idea of what a company's IT ability is.
Myself, I have no idea why the fridges would be on the network/ internet but wouldn't be surprised that the utilities requested it be done.