Live: Major IT outage affecting banks, airlines, media outlets across the world
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There are reports of IT outages affecting major institutions in Australia and internationally.

All our servers and company laptops went down at pretty much the same time. Laptops have been bootlooping to blue screen of death. It’s all very exciting, personally, as someone not responsible for fixing it.

Apparently caused by a bad CrowdStrike update.

Edit: now being told we (who almost all generally work from home) need to come into the office Monday as they can only apply the fix in-person. We’ll see if that changes over the weekend…

    • Trailblazing Braille TaserEnglish
      37•9 months ago

      And especially now the work week has slimmed down where no one works on Friday anymore

      Excuse me, what now? I didn’t get that memo.

        • @corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
          2•9 months ago

          I changed jobs because the new management was all “if I can’t look at your ass you don’t work here” and I agreed.

          I now work remotely 100% and it’s in the union contract with the 21vacation days and 9x9 compressed time and regular raises. The view out my home office window is partially obscured by a floofy cat and we both like it that way.

          I’d work here until I die.

    • @sasquash@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      1•9 months ago

      Actually I was not even joking. I also work in IT and have exactly the same opinion. Friday is for easy stuff!