Live: Global 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
      42•4 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.

        • @[email protected]English
          2•4 months ago

          Is the 4x10 really worth the extra day off? Tbh I’m not sure it would work very well for me… I find just one 10-hour day to be kinda draining, so doing that 4 times a week every week feels like it might just cancel out any benefits of the extra day off.

          • @[email protected]English
            2•4 months ago

            I am very used to it so I don’t find it draining. I tried 5x8 once and it felt more like working an extra day than getting more time in the afternoon. If that makes sense. I also start early around 7am, so I am only staying a little later than other people

        • @[email protected]English
          2•4 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.

    • @[email protected]English
      15•4 months ago

      Yep, anything done on Friday can enter the world on a Monday.

      I don’t really have any plans most weekends, but I sure as shit don’t plan on spending it fixing Friday’s fuckups.

      • @[email protected]English
        3•4 months ago

        And honestly, anything that can be done Monday is probably better done on Tuesday. Why start off your week by screwing stuff up?

        We have a team policy to never do externally facing updates on Fridays, and we generally avoid Mondays as well unless it’s urgent. Here’s roughly what each day is for:

        • Monday - urgent patches that were ready on Friday; everyone WFH
        • Tuesday - most releases; work in-office
        • Wed - fixing stuff we broke on Tuesday/planning the next release; work in-office
        • Thu - fixing stuff we broke on Tuesday, closing things out for the week; WFH
        • Fri - documentation, reviews, etc; WFH

        If things go sideways, we come in on Thu to straighten it out, but that almost never happens.

    • @[email protected]English
      2•4 months ago

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