Good know about Lidl, it should be all systems go to get my booze from aldi later. Get a few bog rolls in just in case
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Global IT outage
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Tuearts right boot
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My thoughts go out to Ralf, the guy in the windowless office, 3rd on the left at the end of the corridor, who pressed the wrong button and is still in there.
Johnny Mars Bar
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My other half works for a very famous household name multi multi billion dollar American tech company.
She’s said they’re having a catastrophic global outage and instead of giving their staff who can’t currently get anything done while they fix it the Friday off, they’ve got to sit there doing some bullshit pointless tedious online training courses haha.
Seems like a load of bullshit to me, should just let people clock off, it’s Friday ffs.
She’s not happy at all. Treating thousands of employees like kids with a supply teacher.
She’s said they’re having a catastrophic global outage and instead of giving their staff who can’t currently get anything done while they fix it the Friday off, they’ve got to sit there doing some bullshit pointless tedious online training courses haha.
Seems like a load of bullshit to me, should just let people clock off, it’s Friday ffs.
She’s not happy at all. Treating thousands of employees like kids with a supply teacher.
Johnny Mars Bar
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How can the world depend on one system without any kind of back up in place?! Even if they say it's 100% never going to happen again all it takes is one person to not get all of it lined up to upgrade a system and this happens! Maybe they think 1 to 2 days of outage is fine!?
It doesn’t.
Unfortunately Crowdstrike is one of if not the biggest security software companies in the world though so them having a catastrophic meltdown is going to affect a lot of other businesses given they have so many customers.
It’s a bit like if Visa went down. They’re not the only payment system out there but it would fuck up a hell of a lot of people.
Johnny Mars Bar
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My thoughts go out to Ralf, the guy in the windowless office, 3rd on the left at the end of the corridor, who pressed the wrong button and is still in there.
Haha
I’m picturing Milton in Office Space.
hampshireblue
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And that's the reason productivity in this country is so poor. It's only 20% of the working week that gets written of because it's Friday. FFSMy other half works for a very famous household name multi multi billion dollar American tech company.
She’s said they’re having a catastrophic global outage and instead of giving their staff who can’t currently get anything done while they fix it the Friday off, they’ve got to sit there doing some bullshit pointless tedious online training courses haha.
Seems like a load of bullshit to me, should just let people clock off, it’s Friday ffs.
She’s not happy at all. Treating thousands of employees like kids with a supply teacher.
Johnny Mars Bar
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Hahaha remember that absolute bollocks? My god people are stupid.
One of the reasons Y2K never happened is precisely because software developers prepared for it.
What issues. I never understood why so much money was thrown at an issue. My simple thoughts were.
So a device that uses a date thinks its 1900. Do these devices decide that they were not invented in the early 19th c and think how can I work I don't exist?
As computers didn't exist in 1900 no conflicting dates exist in the system. Records.
Not 1 IT person has explained satisfactorily what was wrong with my logic.
There's lots of code involving dates.
If you had a bit of code say looking back two days from the current date and the current date is now wrong because of a bug then the data being displayed is wrong or doesn't now exist.
So if the machine that decides what the time is for that particular server is saying 1900, 1970 etc instead of 2000 then a lot of things will break.
Johnny Mars Bar
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And that's the reason productivity in this country is so poor. It's only 20% of the working week that gets written of because it's Friday. FFS
You can’t be productive if all your work tools are broken.
I just think it’s a petty to make thousands of people do online training exercises that have no relevance to their job just to avoid giving them the afternoon off. Seems a bit snide.
Anyway (un)fortunately my job isn’t affected. I live in a Mac / Google Drive bubble.