entertainment.

Remote worker with a very secured laptop. Came back from vacation to a BSOD, and after an entire weekend of teams video calls from my phone with our support team, they gave up trying to remediate since our security was so strict. Ended up getting issued a new laptop overnight, and sent mine back for reimaging. I just smiled and sipped coffee, while browsing lemmy on my system76 personal linux laptop. You literally cannot do anything off company resources, of which i had none for 3 days.

crowdstrike? did i miss something?

I was offline for 1/2 a day when I returned from work after 2 weeks vacation. This was 4 days later and my remote (onsite) Windows workstation was in accessible.

IT eventually had to remove it from its location and when in it for several hours to get it back up.

Then once back in I had to log back in to every internal and external website. If Chrome (work req.) didn’t save logins that would have been painful.

I work with a lot of healthcare vendors outside the hospital. Some of them could not get authorizations, access to their orders like medical equipment, etc. Our “e fax” was down. All medical faxing. Fortunately, everyone was understanding and we made agreements to give patients what they needed for their health and all our vendors got authorizations from insurance after the fact… All but one dumb equipment company.

Some of my clients weren’t operational and it gave me a lighter day to catch up on other tasks.

Most were ready to continue on Tuesday, but delays on their end pushed them back a week in most cases. They didn’t like hearing that I was pushing delivery back a week because their delays cause my delays, but thems the ropes.

That’s about it, I don’t use crowdstrike, my employer doesn’t use crowdstrike, and it mostly meant nothing to me.

Got stuck in the airport for a day , missed work and my boss got mad.

We were coming through ATL airport on the Sunday after things had somewhat calmed down. But… Not for Delta. The entire flights board was red. Delayed, cancelled, crazy.

One person and been stuck in Atlanta since Thursday and managed to get on our flight to move one step closer to home. We got stupid stupid lucky to miss the worst of the chaos and only ended up with a few hours delay. Hauling three of our kids through airports when you don’t know if any flight will even be scheduled is not a fun experience.

Made it home in a reasonable timeframe, but only by luck.

The self checkout booths didn’t work at the grocery store.

Fortunately none of the equipment I’m responsible for used that junk.

It caused me to not get a job there (I had been interviewing with them for a Linux Engineer position for a few weeks beforehand).

Other than that, it didn’t affect me at all.

I had to come in on the weekend and work to fix affected PCs. I’m on salary so that was for no extra pay, with the understanding that we’d take that time off sometime during the week. Unfortunately I have too much other stuff going on, so I wasn’t able to take any time off.

I never update my work laptop, so I was good 🤣

It didn’t at all. I refuse to run Microsoft products at home and in the cloud. At work I learned some Postgres database servers are running inside virtualized Linux on Windows hosts, which is kind of disgusting.

Was flying back from Tokyo, heard about the outage when i landed in Bangkok. Luckily i kept my paper tickets and had no issues transferring. Probably would’ve been stuck there for a while if i wasn’t in the habit of hoarding receipts.

Got to sit around and play video games for half a day until someone from IT called and was like “yeah we need to walk you through the work around.”