r/PodcastGuestExchange • u/ITHorrorStories • 1d ago
Established Seeking Guests [IRTR] Looking for IT people with real horror stories ā sysadmins, developers, infrastructure, mainframe, OT, networking, etc.
SFW ? Yes.
Episode count : 20 regular episodes published, plus Jack's Rants. Running since April 2025
Homepage : https://ithorrorstories.eu
Genre : Technology / IT. Real-world IT incidents, infrastructure failures, sysadmin stories, mainframes, networking, security, datacenters, DevOps, Shadow IT, incident response, and the lessons learned afterward.
Episode length : Approx. 30ā60 minutes for regular episodes; Jack's Rants are shorter.
We make IT Horror Stories, a podcast about real things that happened in IT and the people who were there when they happened.
We're looking for more guests.
Not necessarily CEOs, founders, authors, influencers or "thought leaders." No crypto pitch required. No AI-generated portrait of you staring thoughtfully into the middle distance.
We're looking for people who actually worked with the technology.
Sysadmins, developers, helpdesk, infrastructure engineers, network people, project managers, security people, datacenter people, mainframers, OT people... basically anyone who has been around IT long enough to hear:
"This should have been a routine change..."
...and immediately know where the story is going.
Maybe you survived a major outage. Maybe you inherited a system nobody understood. Maybe the technology worked perfectly but the organization didn't. Maybe a tiny mistake caused a surprisingly large problem. Maybe your "temporary" workaround is still running fifteen years later.
The incident doesn't need to have cost millions or made the news. Small disasters often make better stories.
We generally look for stories that are at least two years old. Companies, customers and individuals can be anonymized. This isn't about naming and shaming people. We're interested in what happened, how you dealt with it, and what others can learn from it.
You don't need previous podcast experience, a book to sell or a personal brand.
Just a good IT story.
If you have one, reply here or send me a message. Happy to answer questions before you commit to anything.
And yes, you're allowed to have a LinkedIn profile without describing yourself as a thought leader.