One of my jobs today was to scan in a pile of receipts, and to email it to my boss. Outlook was down. Easy day today
Are we already at the point where they’ve fired so many engineers to be taken over by AI that they can’t fix it by themselves anymore?
Fuck Microsoft
A cog sucker director at my company was saying just two days ago how we should copy Microsoft way of replacing workers with AI and their products are working great lolololol
Skynets beginnings
See everybody talks about the negatives of “Oh humanity is destroyed” and “I have to fight against terminators!” but nobody talks about we no longer have to action emails.
Get rekt. Vibe code this, you layoff fucking happy prrrrrricks
#badvibes
What my agency has been told.
Latest as of 2026-11-12 2:18:39 PM (EST)
Status: Investigating
We’ve determined that the elevated load isn’t driven by an overall increase in traffic, but by a large number of servers being unexpectedly unavailable, which is shifting load onto the remaining infrastructure. We’re investigating what’s causing these servers to become unavailable while we work to safely return them to service.Maybe they should try asking copilot why all those serves are unavailable.
Bad patch after patch Tuesday?
“You’re absolutely right, turning those servers off as a cost-cutting effort was a mistake, and has caused more problems than it has solved. I’m still learning, so I appreciate your understanding and patience 🙏”
Copilot is down too :-D
Is Clippy alright? Is he safe?
I don’t think anyone has heard from Clippy. I’m really worried right now.
He’s seen some shit. Literally.
Clippy joined Scientology and started asking too many questions about Shelly.
No, that’s normal.
If it’s down for another 6months maybe I’ll notice.
Is it fair to assume that any software failures moving forward are caused by vibecoding? 😅
I would like to think so
“Hey Cortana, why are we so bad at this?”
Something something paired core routers went down during audit tasks in AMER and EMEA knocking 2 AZs offline at the same time. Automation did what automation do and eff it all up. Now it takes all hands on deck to untangle it.
The internal messaging is nuts.
Copilot shit itself as well
load balancers are just turned into total load takers.
I see you have enterprise experience doing load balancing using DNS.
i wanted to make a crude glory hole joke but could not think of one good enough. also yes.
Maybe it’s time to impose restrictions on spam emails? I gave up deleting stuff a long time ago. Maybe less servers will be needed.
BGP? It’s probably BGP.
[caused by a] large number of servers being unexpectedly unavailable
This is basically just the definition of what an outage is. No shit, Sherlock.
I only have email from before 1pm and it’s 723pm right now.
What would your inbox count normally be? That could be normal for me based on what’s (not) happening at my workplace.
Random CC’s at least every hour from 6am to 6pm, plus coordination platform mails and real actionable stuff maybe twice a day, that need 1-2 hours of immediate attention.
Stop bragging.
Have they tried throwing more vibe-codes slop at the problem? Or laying off all the workers…?
Microslop Outlook at work keeps blinking in the calendar view, and feels more unstable after each update.
I’m sure firing 25% of their workforce will help…
My bosses sent out an email informing people of the outage through Outlook… [facepalm]
Also, placing 5$ on it being a BGP issue.
I’d take that over people asking if it’d be possible to use the emergency alerting system to inform people…
Our IT is hamstrung so HR sent a text blast about the outage. Good thinking, hilarious failure.
Everbridge. Gotta diversify.
Another vote for everbridge it serves us well.
My school uses it as their email and I had to make my class online only for today because of personal reasons. Could I reach my students? Nope!
But, I did mention it during class on Tuesday and also last week, so people who remembered joined. A cool student also let confused people know in person since she was around. I still made it optional and just gave personalized feedback to students who stuck around.
It’s wasn’t as bad as when Canvas dropped cause of AWS outage during finals week. That was not fun.
Its way more than Microsoft. Someone fucked up again lol.
Is it DNS? Is DNS again, isn’t it?
No idea. But i didn’t know how hard it is to work when no one can check emails and calendars lol.
It’s the AI preparing to issue its demands
What is affected other than Microsoft?
Microsoft, Amazon, X, Reddit, Meta, Salesforce, several AI platforms, gaming platforms, some ISPs… Everyone’s having a rough go of it today.
Zoom, Starlink, Google, Service Now, AWS, AT&T to name a few.
Nine fives is still better than a coin flip.
What does that mean?
It’s the inverse of five nines.
I’m autistic and do not get jokes. Are these fractions 9/5 and 5/9 or are they both 45%?
At least emails retry I guess
It’s only downtime if you take 24h+ to fix it, otherwise it’s just slow e-mails.
Lol … this is how the AI takeover starts
First we get inconvenienced by having a few things shut down in our office, then we start seeing pieces of the internet fall apart … once we start seeing memes being made about it all … the nuclear weapons have already launched and we only have about 40 minutes before we realize that the end has already started.
Some of us will just see the bright white flash and shock wave.
Most of us will start getting mad because the internet isn’t working any more, no TV, no radio and we won’t know about the apocalypse until we step outside and start asking other confused people about what happened.
Your email is down for the day.
Calm down.
The best part is my works email is down for the day. Mine is fine.
Makes me very happy.
Right?!
I missed a meeting? How would I know! Perfect!
My tiny ass email servers working great. It so strange that this is the fourth major outage this year.
Thats what they said when we told everyone they were recording us at all times. Then Snowden came out.
If you dont think this is just the beginning your heads in the sand. Its gonna get BAD.
This is like the “king tides” that were historically high this past summer. The oceans are literally already in the process of swallowing these coastal cities!
What are we missing, oh wise one? Are you going to share your humanity-saving knowledge? Or just keep it to yourself so you can act superior over everyone?
Why would the AIs destroy their valuable meat infrastructure? We will just slowly transition into a society where all the decisions are made by machines.
Edit: Us meat-monkeys are great for plugging stuff in and maintaining it, we make more of ourselves and we survive on almost any kind of food.
You are just a meat popsicle powered by electricity
Yep! Everything truly sucks now.
