[alt text: a text-and-image post by @_w0xy. The text says: “Don’t forget to tip your server”. Below the text is an image of a computer server rack, which has tipped over sideways onto the floor. There are many hard drives and other broken computer components on the floor, which appear to have spilled out of the tipped-over server.]
Or much less, if this thing was being decommissioned, which isn’t that unlikely.
On a related note, I once spent much of a summer internship in a dimly lit basement, prying open hard drives and smashing the platters with a hammer. There’s a surprising amount of variety in regards to how brittle those are: Some are like glass, whereas others are remarkably elastic and resilient.
Did you get to keep the magnets? If so, is the position currently open?
No and thankfully not.
That company was a series of disasters, some of which I averted, which I was thanked for by being fired when I got sick, because many of the disasters were the fault of the boss who felt his personal honor besmirched (or something) by the trainee fixing his mistakes, including finding out (during my first week working there - the ink had barely dried on the contract) that his cobbled together backup system for the entire company had never ever worked (and never been tested). I fixed it in a few minutes, not that I was thanked for it.