Management refuses to pay for unlimited WiFi in a new office, instead buying the cheapest data package possible, causing entire office to halt work: ‘The WiFi stopped working after an hour’

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Bar Mor Hazut • Senior Editor
Dec 23, 2025 9:00 AM EST

Offices have a few essentials that a functioning workplace cannot exist without. For example, every office must have desks and chairs for its employees; otherwise, no one will be willing to come work at that space for 8 hours a day.

Another essential, just as important as a chair, if not more, is WiFi. It doesn't even matter what the office is for; without WiFi, work cannot be done. It's vital for communication, research, and almost every single action performed in an average office. Without it, all employees might as well go home and work from there.

When the management in the story below decided to pay for the cheapest data package possible for their office, they basically set themselves up for failure. No way can an office of 20 employees manage to work without proper data for everyone. It's a classic case of a corporation trying to save a small penny, only to realize it causes them to lose a big buck. 

Cutting corners on something everyone actually needs in an office is not the brightest idea. Scroll down to find out how long it took for management to admit their mistake and fix the situation.

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  • That time managment didn't think an office full of people needed unlimited wifi data?

    This happened years ago, but something reminded me of it recently. So I use to be a contract/gig
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  • In my industry we ended up in a lot of temporary offices. Places that were either vacant or not being used daily before we moved in for a few months, did our thing and then packed up and moved out.
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  • I was hired onto a job and began to process of moving into our temporary office space along with around 20 other people.
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  • It was an old warehouse that had been empty for sometime before we moved in. Anvwav.
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  • So were unpacking and setting up and of course priority #1 is the coffee pot, but priority #2 was wifi.
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  • As this was an older building there was no established network connection to just turn on in our name, so managment decided to get us these little data hot spot things to plug into each general area.
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  • Apparently when activating such things you can select different levels of data usage for different prices.
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  • And managment, in their ultimate wisdom, did not only not choose the unlimited version, but chose the cheapest and smallest amout of data possible.
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  • For an office of 20 people that would all be there 8+ hours a day for months....
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  • (oh and they didnt think to tell us this fact. Just told us wifi was up and running).
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  • Man using a laptop to connect to wifi but wifi not connect.
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  • I'm not sure how much data they actually paid for that first day but the wifi stopped working AN HOUR after it was connected.
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  • A lot of hemming and hawing and back and forth about "well how much do you think well actually use on a daily basis" managment finally s ed it up and paid for the unlimited version.
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  • It took them 3 days to reach that conclusion. What absolute fucking mess it was.
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  • BouncingSphinx A real case of tripping over a dollar to pick up a penny.
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  • lightning_po I am willing to bet that nobody involved in that decision understood what a gigabyte is
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  • thetrivialstuff I worked for a "startup" (that had been a startup for 15 years) where the CEO got a "deal" on the main Internet connection to a small datacentre, where he got it really cheap if it was limited to a certain amount of data transfer per month. Worked great until the first time the overage charges section of that special contract became relevant - $10,000 in overage charges in two weeks (on a connection that he was paying about $500/month for). Pretty much wiped out all the money he'
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  • Goddess Rayne that's lacking some foresight!
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  • CAPS_LOCK_STUCK_HELP you were running an office of 20 people off of mifis? jesus christ
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  • Alia_Explores 99 JFC, they wanted to buy internet by the teaspoon
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  • BuddyHank Are you one of my old co workers, OP? Had the same situation, but we used those damn hot spots for like 6 months.
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  • mojo5864 Why do companies even think like this? I have traveled to numerous 3rd world countries where just about everyone can connect to Wi-Fi, even out in the bush/jungle just about everywhere..
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  • SchizoidRainbow IT personnel here. One year to celebrate huge profits the management bought 100 iPad minis (new gen just popped) and lotteried them out. In a WiFi system accustomed to supporting about thirty devices and a few phones, 100 bandwidth thirsty iPads crammed in all at once. The whole system became unusable.
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