This is so fucking funny

  • VILenin [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    4 months ago

    Yesterday I was dreading having to work an early morning flight.

    Literally in the crew van right now making a u-turn heading back to the hotel. Thanks Microsoft! michael-laugh

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    4 months ago

    not to dox myself, but i work at a company thats basically tech support for a load of banks etc. and it is fucking wonderful seeing all these billion dollar companies come crying to us and telling them that it sucks to suck and we can’t do shit and immediately closing their help tickets lmao party-cat duane spongebob-party party-sicko crab-party

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    4 months ago

    Can confirm, in the hospitality industry. Had issues with the credit card machines and just got a call from an airline saying they needed to delay departures for guests.

    Maybe, and just hear me out: having the entire world rely on shit like this isn’t… a good idea. It’s definitely laughable at this point.

    edit: there’s a joke somewhere that the PCs are going on (crowd)strike. Someone cleverer than me, please articulate it.

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    4 months ago

    Half my company is shut down. Laptops crash into blue screens after bios post and probably need to be wiped. Gotta love Microsoft. Exceptional customer service.

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      Boot in safe mode

      Go to Windows\System32\drivers\CrowdStrike

      Delete “C-00000291.sys”

      Edit: Repeat manually for every computer on the system

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        4 months ago

        For some reason IT at my work either can’t do that or are taking a really long time to

        I don’t have access to do that on my work computer for myself though :/

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    Lol, thank you based god that this shit happened on my days off!

    I know I’ll walk into a shit storm on Monday but I don’t care. I’m maxing and relaxing now

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    GODDAMN IT!

    Here I was shit talking, and my boss just called me and asked me to come in. Yes, I work in desktop support. Yes, I’m getting overtime for this. No, I am not happy! angery

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    4 months ago

    I feel like every IT professional was waiting for something like this eventually. Seeing the shitty infrastructure that supports even mega corporations makes you wonder how this doesn’t happen more often.

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        4 months ago

        I worked for a company who had cut their IT department so bad they could not fix a payments database that handled over $1 billion in transactions annually in a timely manner. The fix was a non-IT analytics team created their own database in Access to store it in instead big-cool

        And you are rewarded for doing stupid shit like that in corporate America instead of rightfully being told you are a fucking idiot.

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    4 months ago

    My fucking god. I picked up a co-workers shift this afternoon because she received a relatively minor injury but would prefer not to work, and I was thinking it would be a regular Friday afternoon.

    Half the other cafes, restaurants and pubs in the vicinity lost their card payment systems and some even their ability to take cash (windows OS cash registers I guess??).

    We got away from issues because our boss is cheap and has a cheaper point of sale system with a cheaper bank and a cheaper cash regjster that apparently never bought whatever Office/CrowdStrike thing that causes instant, looping BSODs and so we were operating as normal.

    Imagine the amount of people that come in because our shit was working.

    There is a bit of humour that my particular small business tyrant boss being a stingy capitalist avoided the fallout of the large business tyrants being stingy capitalists.

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      There is a bit of humour that my particular small business tyrant boss being a stingy capitalist avoided the fallout of the large business tyrants being stingy capitalists.

      Don’t celebrate so soon because your petty tyrant will never upgrade their system after seeing this shit lol

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    4 months ago

    I’ve been watching the ABC coverage. It’s pretty minimal, they have no on screen graphics and can’t play video. Started as the RNC coverage was ending. Bless em, they’re doing their best.

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      4 months ago

      They had their first remote guest dropout! They’ve been covering this all arvo and that was the first. Still no on screen graphics but they did run video

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    4 months ago

    The finale plot of Fight Club but instead of using bombs the Fight Club just sits back and drinks Natty Ice while the corporations cut tech budgets until accomplishing the same thing.