I work with CNC machines, and those were unaffected. But the measuring devices we use to double - check tolerances and record the fact that our parts are good went down. The computer that tracks the number of good parts and scraps for the day were also down.
So, we kept running and did more manual checks with micrometers and gages. Work slowed slightly, and record keeping had to be on paper for a while and entered manually on Monday.
Also we couldn’t clock in that day, the time tracking computer was also down. So a head count was taken and also entered into eh computer once it got running
Schadenfreude.
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.
Don’t forget to hold them to it - there’s plenty of with that can wait!
Professionally, not at all. My company doesn’t use Crowdstrike. Unlike one of my former employers who had thousands of systems down for days. The Field techs there made a killing in overtime.
Personally: My (54m) oldest kid (17m) was stuck at Laguardia for 10 hours. Fortunately, a great gate agent at LGA got him on a flight that evening, with a first class upgrade, to get him into an airport about 1.5 hour drive from the house. I picked him up at midnight and home by 1:30.
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.
crowdstrike? did i miss something?
Yeah just look it up. Half the internet was down, basically.
it was a joke
i use linux btw
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.
entertainment.
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.
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.
Fridays are my cheat day. All week long I look forward to getting a big ole breakfast burrito at a local restaurant. I pull in that morning and there’s a “cash only” sign. Well I don’t have any cash on me. Ruined my damn morning.
great lesson why you have some cash on you, like enough to fill up your gas tank.
Yes it was a good reminder for me. I usually always carry cash for this reason, but I had spent my cash and was lazy about making the time to swing by the bank for more. I did do that later that day and am back to carrying cash on me.
What kind of breakfast burrito?
It’s called the big omelette burrito with brisket. It’s a big omelet, 3 eggs, cheese, meat of your choice (I go with brisket) pico de gallo, refried beans. It’s amazing. It also serves as my lunch because it’s huge.
Dear lord, that sounds incredible. I assume it feeds 3 adults
The real question here
It only affected our time clock system. So we just used paper timecards for a week while IT worked on getting it back up.
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.
Since I run Arch I was totally fine with it. I run Arch BTW.
