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Major IT outage affecting banks, airlines, media outlets across the world (www.abc.net.au)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by rxxrc@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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...

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[+] rozodru@lemmy.ca 77 points 4 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

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[–] 0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 42 points 4 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] meanmon13@lemmy.zip 15 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yeah it's great :-) 4 10hr shifts and every weekend is a 3 day weekend

[–] jedibob5@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] meanmon13@lemmy.zip 2 points 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

[–] Blackmist 15 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 points 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.

[–] sasquash@sopuli.xyz 2 points 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!