Hey Elodie, the CEO called! He said if you don't stop asking everyone in the office stupid questions he's sentencing you to bugfixing for the rest of your career
Generally we try not to shit on the new hires when they make a mistake - it’s a failure of the company if they were put in a position that that was possible.
I could see Amazon blaming a new hire though. They don’t care about anyone.
Lmao I was exaggerating a bit, when I was a new hire in my company they were very very nice to me (also I'm really good at power automate so I made the company's bonus system lol)
This screen brings me back to a troll malware that would play at full volume "you are an idiot a ha ha ha ha ha haaaa ah ha ha haa haaaaa" on repeat with popups ever couple of milliseconds.
Was hilarious, please tell me someone else remembers that. Late 90s early 00s.
Bless you, that’s the one lol. Also partly why I got into the IT industry was as a teen: you learned real quickly what to trust/not trust & when you gotta fix your own shit lol
I feel this very acutely. I was the expert in my section and everyone came to me to answer and fix things. Then a coworker left for six months so that had to fill his spot … and choose me. I knew nothing about his position or the manner of work, but the bosses were like, “You’re an expert over there in (completely unrelated) area, right smarty? You’ll figure it out.”
Now a couple months in I’m constantly told to just remember everything, don’t take notes, don’t ask questions, they’ll show me how to do something once in an annoyed huff and then expect perfection forever after. So much fun that I started getting hives when at work … I just begged for my old spot back the other day.
So I'm at Disney world for the week and I'm not kidding when I say this outage literally brought all fast passing and purchases in the park to a SCREECHING halt. It was straight up amazing. Like 0 backups and a lot of places were cashless
Airlines were impacted. Businesses that use services through venmo or other payment systems were all down. Restaurants couldn’t close out orders. My agency’s payroll department couldn’t process payroll due to ADP being impacted. Hell I couldn’t even schedule my dentist checkup.
It’s amazing how it brought a huge swath of the economy to an immediate stop, which highlights just how fragile and vulnerable we are with relying on a single private company for everything.
The opposite. It shows how effective targeted strikes are. If 5% of every company stops showing up to work, things keep running. If a much smaller concentrated group(like all the teachers or power plant workers) stops showing up, then it derails things.
Yeah, this is my thinking too. A concentrated strike (IT professionals, teachers, engineers, etc) can bring things to a halt much faster than general strike.
They do! Luckily my Microsoft-based programmes all worked during the outage because they have their own service. But a huge amount of companies (and government agencies) use AWS, and so a large percentage of companies and some government functions were suddenly offline.
Amazon's stock rose yesterday because of the outage making people realise how many big companies rely on being allowed to use Amazon computers for stuff
Dennis Nedry. He was a computer programmer in the first Jurassic Park film, and (spoilers for an old movie) he wrecks the park systems on purpose to cover his escape from the island with dinosaur embryos for corporate espionage. He doesn’t make it lol
Anyways the computer systems all displayed that little gif of him mocking the people trying to use the system
Jurassic Park was an enormous part of my childhood. My family had a VHS copy I wore out watching damn near every day while playing in the living room floor with Star Wars Lego. Now if you'll excuse me I need to drink my metamucil and hit my Lifealert pendant. I've fallen, and I can't get up!
The best description I've heard for this fiasco came from another artist on this subreddit: "The Cloud is just slang for running your stuff on someone else's computer"
Wait. My kids have been talking about the "You are an idiot" computer virus for weeks. I thought it was nonsense they made up for the bit. I know that's not what caused the outage, but are you telling me that's a real virus?
Not OP, but this has been around since like 2003 or longer. It's not a virus, but it was a web page that tells you "don't click this button" or something like that. If you do, it pops up a screen that says "You are an Idiot, ha hah hahahaha". If you close it, it opens two more in its place, like a shitty Hydra.
Eventually, it crashes your computer and you have to reboot. No permanent damage, it doesn't come back, it's just a thing people used to do to each other on the internet. I remember getting banned from an old message board because I kept the link in my Forum Signature, describing exactly what would happen if you clicked it.
The guy running the forum and game it was dedicated to clicked the link and took the whole game server offline for a while and he banned me. I haven't thought of that dumb link in years. I'm not surprised that most people forgot about it/didn't know it existed.
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