entertainment.
Schadenfreude.
Thankfully we’re 90% Linux so not much, but one of our SAs had to patch a bunch of instances.
We weren’t able to send work orders to maintenance for a day. We sent it the next day.
I was devastated.
2 911s stretching about 5 days for a legacy product. Lots of ec2 rescues and terminated databases. Linux side was fine but ouch.
Exactly not at all.
Non of our customers use it so no effect on us. Then again, I am a network engineer so even if it did it not like I could help much.
I work mostly with FortiNet gear so SSL 0 day are my bad days.
I was camping and forgot to bring cash and the shops had card machines, so I wasn’t able to send a postcard
We had to jump through minor hoops on EC2 to recover a handful of servers. And once those were back online, there were some scheduled reports and similar things to get caught back up. The downstream impact could have been much worse, but we got somewhat lucky on the timing with our weekly processes.
Our poor network support guy had to go around the building and fix a couple dozen workstations. We’re a “small shop, skeleton IT crew” type of place. So we were back to normal in less than a day.
I can’t imagine what a nightmare it must have been for a “large shop, skeleton IT crew” type of place.
I was supposed to go somewhere flying Delta. I had to reschedule for another airline and got to where I was going a day later than originally planned.
Same, but Eurowings.
Still waiting for the response from b their customer support about the ~600€ they owe me (train ticket to another airport, taxi fare and compensation)
Zero affect. Not traveling, and work systems apparently aren’t protected by it … not sure if that’s good or bad 😂
I got a TON of overtime.
My company was only minimally affected, directly (not a lot of Windows machines in our org). But almost all of our partners were dead in the water for the day, so our systems all worked fine but we still couldn’t actually do anything.
It didn’t
I was camping without cell service.
Came back to news of a massive IT outage and Biden dropping out, pretty wild how much can happen when you’re off the grid
Holy crap, same here! Came back to service and phone blew up with all the news.
In my experience the opposite happens more often, you expect at least some major news but nothing of note happened and you have no notifications from people trying to get ahold of you etc. so you just feel weirdly empty because you spend so much time and effort keeping up with the world, friends and family normally.
