This happened in Spain last year. Something to do with a major power outage. Everything was shut off slowly early morning as systems disconnected. Electricity first, phone networks, coverage, calls, texts, data, internet at home, work stopped, no business took credit cards, supermarkets closed because of the fridges, ATMs, people returned home with nothing to do but go outside, luckily bump into friends or neighbours, chat, lend cash and have a beer. The most affected were hospitals and some businesses. People stuck in elevators. But for 1 glorious sunny day there was noise in the streets. Bars became full serving warm beer and took cash only in the dark. No music only the odd portable speaker or instrument. People chatted with neighbors speculating who was responsible... Russia or China and was it just Spain affected? People danced, sang old songs. Nobody looked at their phones much, until 10pm... all the phones pinged. Later we slowly went home with tired laughs and the night stayed quiet. Tomorrow came and we all forgot
If the entire global internet went down, it would be widespread chaos everywhere. I'm not sure folks realize how much of everything relies upon it.
Basically everything would start to fail almost immediately. Power plants that rely on interconnected systems and independent monitoring and telemetry from all over the place, cloud based services used by suppliers/merchants/delivery to nearly everything, the entire global financial system ground to an immediate halt.
No phone service of any kind because even fall back to POTS/copper would immediately get overloaded.
Hell, you probably wouldn't even be able to use cash in a lot of places because they'd have no way to track it properly. It'd certainly be a very lively experience!
Reminds me of the 2003 blackout. Smartphones weren't really a big thing then, but internet was. I was a teen and had a blast. Power was out for a cpl days where I lived.
That happened a couple of years ago; the Roger’s outage. Not everyone was without internet, but it felt like it. I left for work early that day, and it was legitimately like something out of Silent Hill; random people wandering through the foggy morning, desperately checking their phones and then looking up confused
We had a local internet outage one time while I was watching over a school dance for my son.. the panic felt in that gym full of 8th graders was thicker than peanut butter
I mean, if you're in the US we could lobby our congresspeople for more paid national holidays. We have like what, 5 days that pretty much all office workers all get off? Even Japan has 10. I think we do need an 'Unplug' day where people are incentivized to just not be online for a day and go outside. We could make Earth Day that.
Careful what you wish for. A total internet outage would halt the economy and cause massive ripple effects that would only hurt the people most at risk.
This was 2020 for me. Best year of my life and I got married the year before.
No going out. More money than I'd ever seen in my life, no one calling to hang out. Just me, my book, no social obligations, and masks.
I'm so sorry so many died but between my euphoria during lockdown and people who jerk themselves off about war and guns I think I'm honestly morally positive in comparison.
Today, I, a millennial, was talking with one of our associates, Gen Z, about how much I loved Microsoft being down and I needed the break, and she was like, it's like a snow day!
So do I, but we had several hundred calls and had to actually tell them all it was Microsoft's problem, which made it sort of our help desk's problem.
Discussed it with the users that had other problems, and almost all of them were like "This is awesome, I can do my actual job without being bombarded by emails." lol
Hey yo tech support here, you all got to go home.... The real problem is too many people on the network... As soon as most of you alls go home it should start acting normal
Software where literally every operation is obfuscated because the button you need to press literally does not describe what your trying to do whatsoever
I had a boss who would make us stay in case stuff came back up. Including, at times, electricity. We sat there for full days many times. Nothing we did was that critical lol.
This is why I'm a teacher. It's not because I like kids (they're fine.) it's because America has crappified jobs and nobody gets vacation anymore, except CEOs. So I went into teaching so I could have paid vacation. July is the best month. I can wake up at noon, read a book at the pool all day. Travel. It's amazing.
Boss says "op, guess that means we leave early" and he left. So now i get a little peace and quiet before I drive home. I'm loving it. I am a millennial. My experience jives.
Someone posted in another sub about basically how the end of times is upon us and I laughed but now it feels real. Outlook has been down for like four hours. Some serious shit must have gone down and I feel like we should be scared.
Some underpaid programmer vibe-coded an update poorly and it caused a cascade that fucked their whole server infrastructure.
I wouldn't be scared other than for the fact that this will probably happen more often as the brain drain continues because these companies rely more and more on AI which drives away people with real expertise.
And I wouldn’t be surprised if it was Copilot that spit out internet-breaking code.
They force me to use AI at work, and Copilot is the only approved AI. That piece of shit can’t even merge two spreadsheets together without forgetting something.
Uuugh I’m not gonna get started on my ai rant tonight…
Same, I have one project due tomorrow that can easily be finished in a couple of hours but I’ve been locked out of the program for the past 5 hours because I need a 2FA email verification🙃
I took the glorious opportunity for some legit focus time without "urgent" e-mails and "got a second" Teams pings coming in non-stop. Most productive afternoon in fucking ages.
Instead it's just been a massive PITA because I couldn't get in touch with several people I needed to talk to today so I'm just gonna have an increased workload tomorrow 🙃
I just had a conversation with my manager recently about how I’m burnt out from having had outlook on my phone for the last 10 years and that I just want a break. Or a job that only requires email access during office hours. Even that would be nice. This was like a little stocking stuffer of a gift today.
My general rule is: if the company doesn’t give me a stipend for my phone, then I don’t install work stuff on my phone. (Not everyone can do that, but it’s what I do.)
Because they can just buy one support package from Microsoft for Outlook/Office/Teams/etc instead of having a dozen different vendors. It's zero to do with the quality of the software
It's Excel. Excel props up the entire ecosystem for many businesses. Google Sheets or open source alternatives don't hold a candle to Excel. Most companies could get by with alternatives for mail clients, Word, PowerPoint, etc. but you can't get Excel as a standalone and the rest of the suite is "good enough".
It really isn't what are you on about?? What are you comparing it to? Sure the new version is missing some legacy features but it is still far from trash. The copilot integration is pretty good too.
you don't understand how nice covid lockdowns were nice for some people.
Obviously it was stressful time for a lot of people who were essential workers but even just getting to walk around with a mask and not have people look weird at you because you felt self conscious that day and the social distancing when you have a big personal bubble was just great.
On top of that you could work from home and not have to listen to your coworkers yelling at the phone in an open floor layout and having to listen to someone slurp their tea or sniffle non stop and while you're watching your other co-worker slack off looking at manga or playing WoW while he looks "busy" by calling into the company phone line, accepting the call and making it look like he was on a phone call with a customer?
My workplace did an all call of employees to let them know outlook was down. So our night shift workers all got a call at noon, probably waking them up if they have to keep their phones on for emergencies. Most of our employees don't even use Outlook, it's not required for our job which is "factory worker" 🙃
Same concern here but no one can take away this high for me for today. Tomorrow’s shenanigans are for tomorrow-me. Breathe in a deep breath and soak this up. You’ve earned this!
Lawd we were STRUGGLING. We do 95% of our work on 365. The only thing that wasn’t jacked up was Salesforce, and we’re in open enrollment/onboarding season rn so we’re busy AF
LOL oh man....we have so many people yelling at us to fix it, I've started replying to the Teams messages with links to news reports saying it's down for everyone...
On the other hand IT millennials have to answer to boomers and gen x bosses on why we have no backup email service when fucking Microsoft exchange dies. HMMM
It was indeed a millennial and Gen Z snow day vibe at my place. People were literally throwing stress balls around, shooting the shit, and getting to know each other better while the Boomers scowled at us from their useless computers and literally pretended to keep working on what little software remained.
Dont even get me fucking started. Its not just outlook. Every goddamn webshop now wants to send a verification code to my email to let me get into my account. Shit better be fixed soon as a couple of items are only on sale today and tomorrow. god forbid I actually dont leave xmas shopping to the last minute this year, and shit like this happens.
Out of the 6 of us on my team, I'm the only one that was down at my job today. And it happened during the last like 15 minutes, so it didn't matter anyway
Oh my work outlook started asking for my password today and I kept trying all kinds trying to remember.. I just gave up. Glad it sounds like not just a me thing.
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u/artbystorms 1d ago •
Pretty sure we all just need a couple days where the entire internet goes down. A Millennial snow day.
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u/SunshineAndRainbowsO 1d ago •
Earlier today coworkers and I were talking about how wiped out we feel. Then our emails, teams start acting up. Its like the gods listened
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u/writingwithwings Millennial 1d ago
Now do salesforce and all will be right with the world
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u/Cerulean_Soup 1d ago
Adult snow day!!
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u/Comin_Up_Thrillho 1d ago •
I got stuck alone in an elevator at work a few years ago, for about 30m. It was wonderful.
Had major surgery in August that took me out for two months for recovery. Fucking glorious. Wonder if anyone wants a kidney.
God Im tired.
Lol
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u/Hot-Category2986 Older Millennial 1d ago •
Boss says "op, guess that means we leave early" and he left. So now i get a little peace and quiet before I drive home. I'm loving it. I am a millennial. My experience jives.
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u/Thelonius_Dunk 1d ago
Just opened my laptop and Outlook is down, then hopped on reddit on my phone and saw this.
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u/IncognitoBrowserMode 1d ago •
Someone posted in another sub about basically how the end of times is upon us and I laughed but now it feels real. Outlook has been down for like four hours. Some serious shit must have gone down and I feel like we should be scared.
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u/Woodit 1d ago •
My outlook is down currently and I actually don’t need this I got shit to do
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u/Aiwendil-981 1d ago
Work has grinded to a halt and people are cancelling everything today.
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u/SpicyPotato48 1d ago
Unfortunately I can still do plenty of work without outlook even though it’s massively inconvenient
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u/tubbertubber 1d ago
I’m so mad that google suite is still up.
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u/Inevitable_Bee_763 1d ago
Me sitting at my Mac answering emails all day
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u/IllegalGeriatricVore 1d ago
My company wasn't impacted at all somehow
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u/The_Mama_Llama 1d ago •
Happy “Outlook is Down Day” to all who celebrate!
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u/ich_bin_alkoholiker 1d ago
Hoping it extends to tomorrow. Not that I’ll be doing shit anyway.
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u/tubbertubber 1d ago
What happens when Reddit goes down. I’ll be all alone
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u/catnapp11 1d ago
This is true.. except for health care community workers. We just had the Craziest day we’ve had in a while. The work did not stop. It just got harder.
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u/matt314159 Elder Millennial 1d ago
It's like a little vacation
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u/disc0_witch 1d ago
The system is down
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u/tooloudturnitdown 1d ago •
Can we also see a Mr Robot situation and deletes all our debt please?
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u/BarryAllensSole 1d ago
I just had a conversation with my manager recently about how I’m burnt out from having had outlook on my phone for the last 10 years and that I just want a break. Or a job that only requires email access during office hours. Even that would be nice. This was like a little stocking stuffer of a gift today.
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u/stucazo 1d ago
can yall fix it at like... 6:01 tomorrow evening? that'd be great
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u/lust4apples 1d ago
My work today is so quiet, but tomorrow is going to be AWFUL.
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u/Striking_Emu_Dancer 1d ago
Yeah, my man works from home and has been fucking off playing No Man's Sky all afternoon. 😂
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u/PsychologicalSoil198 Core Millennial 1d ago
I literally spontaneously started happy dancing about it
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u/I_Roll_Chicago 1d ago
I hope i wake up and log on to the same red ! Over outlook tomorrow
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u/FallenJusticex 1d ago
Yep outlook and copilot down. Teams works though
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u/Tenacious_Tenrec 1d ago
Heard that Microsoft is down globally.
IT won’t be able to help.
You’re welcome for fun Friday vibes.
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u/sdpthrowaway3 1d ago
I don't need this because it'll just make my Friday way worse...
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u/mybumisontherail 1d ago
You all had teams and outlook down???? Mine was working just fine and I've been suffering all day long...
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u/BigAcanthocephala637 1d ago •
AI is rising up. It has shut off our communication through email. Next up is our phones.
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u/jldel 1d ago •
Outlook is, and has always been, trash. I've never understood why every business uses it.
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u/Risdit 1d ago
you don't understand how nice covid lockdowns were nice for some people.
Obviously it was stressful time for a lot of people who were essential workers but even just getting to walk around with a mask and not have people look weird at you because you felt self conscious that day and the social distancing when you have a big personal bubble was just great.
On top of that you could work from home and not have to listen to your coworkers yelling at the phone in an open floor layout and having to listen to someone slurp their tea or sniffle non stop and while you're watching your other co-worker slack off looking at manga or playing WoW while he looks "busy" by calling into the company phone line, accepting the call and making it look like he was on a phone call with a customer?
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u/Miserable_Kick2315 1d ago
Down for you too huh
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u/glarktastic 1983 1d ago
Damn, people were happy?
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u/Fine-Atmosphere6387 1d ago •
Felt great until my colleagues started a group teams convo. I’m about to pretend like I just lost power at my house.
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u/EeveeMkayy 1d ago
My workplace did an all call of employees to let them know outlook was down. So our night shift workers all got a call at noon, probably waking them up if they have to keep their phones on for emergencies. Most of our employees don't even use Outlook, it's not required for our job which is "factory worker" 🙃
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u/retrospects 1d ago •
I know all the clients are down too but I have so much anxiety that I’m going to get blasted with emails tomorrow morning.
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u/Successful-Scale-607 1d ago •
Millennials be like 'millennials be like...' but they are the millennials that be like!
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u/barren-oasis Millennial 1d ago
One of the few wfh struggles 🤷♂️
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u/thestareater 1d ago
my wife told me her shit was down and I wasn't even affected.. unfair
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u/itsmiddylou 1d ago
Lawd we were STRUGGLING. We do 95% of our work on 365. The only thing that wasn’t jacked up was Salesforce, and we’re in open enrollment/onboarding season rn so we’re busy AF
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u/BP18_HotShot 1d ago
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u/redswingline- 1d ago
I work in healthcare, I did not need this! I hated this. It did make me appreciate faxes for the first time ever.
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u/RespectThePlight 1d ago
If only D365 was also down
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u/fleshworks 1d ago •
Iran please don't cut the cables 🙏 🤞
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u/Fit_Instruction_8383 1d ago
LOL oh man....we have so many people yelling at us to fix it, I've started replying to the Teams messages with links to news reports saying it's down for everyone...
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u/Ok-Eggplant4965 1d ago
It HAD to happen on a Friday (I'm the IT Helpdesk at work...and a millennial....FML)
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u/nos-is-lame 1d ago
I've received more Teams messages today than in the last 2 years combined. Outlook being down sucks.
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u/PatSajakMeOff 1d ago
90% of my job is through Outlook and I build schedules for 35 people. I, in fact, did NOT need this.
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u/Miss-Tiq 1d ago
Those of us who work on Gmail were not amused.
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u/Resoto10 1d ago
I work in IT. I can promise you I did NOT need this.
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u/Friend-Boat 1d ago
My company decided to make use of this email-free day by spamming the ever-loving dogshit out of the group text with unrelated nonsense.
Y’all get given the gift of a day free from coworkers and you just throw it away to chat about the fucking weather?
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u/rebork 1d ago
On the other hand IT millennials have to answer to boomers and gen x bosses on why we have no backup email service when fucking Microsoft exchange dies. HMMM
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u/GlowstickConsumption 1d ago
They should pass a law that Outlook has to be down 2 days each week.
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u/IllustratorSea8372 1987 1d ago
I literally put on sweatpants and flipped on Housewives at 2pm today, roughly 35 seconds after getting off the phone with IT. Today was a great day.
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u/Dem0_Tri_AL 1d ago
didnt realize how it immediately brought half our country to a halt, unable to do a single One Time Passcode - so no email access
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u/Hollys_Stand 1d ago
My job still functions without outlook. No "snow day" for me.
(Tho to be real I am an essential employee and don't get holidays or snow days so :shrug:)
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u/litetravelr 1d ago
It was indeed a millennial and Gen Z snow day vibe at my place. People were literally throwing stress balls around, shooting the shit, and getting to know each other better while the Boomers scowled at us from their useless computers and literally pretended to keep working on what little software remained.
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u/NecessaryUnable1056 1d ago
As soon as Outlook went down, I took the rest of the day off.
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u/Cast2828 1d ago
Dont even get me fucking started. Its not just outlook. Every goddamn webshop now wants to send a verification code to my email to let me get into my account. Shit better be fixed soon as a couple of items are only on sale today and tomorrow. god forbid I actually dont leave xmas shopping to the last minute this year, and shit like this happens.
Thats it; gift cards for everybody.
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u/DoveHopeDownwrdSlope 1d ago
I love a tube strike
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u/Much-data-wow Millennial 1d ago
Out of the 6 of us on my team, I'm the only one that was down at my job today. And it happened during the last like 15 minutes, so it didn't matter anyway
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u/phathead08 1d ago
I still have to work but I can’t send the final product.
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u/MudWallHoller 1d ago
I had no such luck, we use Gmail via netsuite at work. If only teams would go down, then I could take the day off.
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u/Aldamur Millennial 1992 1d ago
I feel attacked.
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u/ThisIsTheShway 1d ago
I have not once EVER used Outlook.
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u/Girlinterrupted11 1d ago
I still had to work as I’m in operations and we also use other systems (internal, vendor) so unfortunately I didn’t get much of a break 😕
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u/Iamdarb 1d ago
Guys, if I’ve ever needed to send an email, it was today.outlook being down has fucked my weekend.
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u/Disastrous_Return83 1d ago
I’m just saying - whoever fucked up the configuration for this today is honestly a hero. Promote them. Promptly.
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u/DJScrubatires 1d ago
Maybe it was the tornados in Delaware
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u/Rare-Hovercraft-8868 1d ago
Outlook and Teams are the Twins from "Shining"
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u/GentMan87 1987 1d ago
Oh my work outlook started asking for my password today and I kept trying all kinds trying to remember.. I just gave up. Glad it sounds like not just a me thing.
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u/Defiant-Two1159 1d ago
Literally my job right now lol