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
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.
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
I’m really glad Microsoft did all that work turning Outlook into a live service web wrapper that can’t function offline because now when they do something stupid I basically get the day off.
Keep fucking up Microsoft.
‘Classic’ outlook won’t even get past loading the profile for me today.
What a shame 🥰
Very true. Today was a very focused coding day.
Loved it
Sadly SharePoint was still working for me, so only a slight drop in productivity today.
Get rekt. Vibe code this, you layoff fucking happy prrrrrricks
#badvibes
#sendvibes
I can’t. Outlook is down.
sends Teams invite
Team is also down (ymmv).
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 🙏”
Is it fair to assume that any software failures moving forward are caused by vibecoding? 😅
I would like to think so
Copilot is down too :-D
Is Clippy alright? Is he safe?
It seems in their greed, they deprecated him
I don’t think anyone has heard from Clippy. I’m really worried right now.
Clippy joined Scientology and started asking too many questions about Shelly.
He’s seen some shit. Literally.
If it’s down for another 6months maybe I’ll notice.
No, that’s normal.
“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.
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.
[caused by a] large number of servers being unexpectedly unavailable
This is basically just the definition of what an outage is. No shit, Sherlock.
The servers are down because the servers are down. Would you like me to make a 14 step plan of action to investigate this?
Yes do that, and then email it to me.
- your clueless boss, who earns twice what you do so must be twice as super ineteilgnent (sic)
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.
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…
What’s it called now? Microsoft Copilot 365 Outlook?
(New)
I love how evergreen that one has been
Wow that is OLD and I’ve never seen it. Thanks
My bosses sent out an email informing people of the outage through Outlook… [facepalm]
Also, placing 5$ on it being a BGP issue.
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.
I’d take that over people asking if it’d be possible to use the emergency alerting system to inform people…
Its way more than Microsoft. Someone fucked up again lol.
Is it DNS? Is DNS again, isn’t it?
It’s the AI preparing to issue its demands
No idea. But i didn’t know how hard it is to work when no one can check emails and calendars lol.
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.
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Hoping teams goes down too.
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You should be able to both change it and turn it off everywhere lol, unless for some godforsaken reason they even can disable those options via GP
Our company relies pretty heavily on teams, apparently. Someone (regional operations director) asked me if I saw their teams message. I told him I exit out as soon as it opens and have never used it in 4 years. Email me or call me like an adult.
That’s insane to me.
I don’t want phone calls, and I certainly don’t really care for emails, way over used.
As a person that got used to being online with IRC and Usenet, I gotta say Teams (as a pain in the ass as it is) is the best way to communicate (if that is the chat type tool you have).
You don’t have to respond right away, you have the information collected in chat channels, you can bring in others into the chat.
But most importantly: it is the only one that makes sense with asynchronous remote work.
A phone call? I tell people I do not have a phone anymore, there is no number to call. Why would you want interruption?
The thing I hate about Teams is how it’s constantly interrupting what I’m doing with notifications. I’m trying to concentrate on some problem or debug some issue then bling-bling…bling…bling-bling…bling and I’ve lost that concentration.
Though part of it is just how people seem to use Teams at my job. A bunch of @all group chats (the whole channels area is barely touched) and a couple of people having a conversation in one of the chats blissfully unaware they are annoying 30 other people who don’t care about whatever they are talking about. Can’t just leave the chat as managers and leads seem to think these chats are great way (and the only way) to disseminate important information. Though I may put the chat on mute…then forget I did that for a while…
I’d vastly prefer if people used email instead, unless it’s actually truly urgent enough to interrupt everyone’s work with it.
Only one? What about Slack?
Even WhatsApp does all that you said, and has a webpage view.
I said if its the tool you happen to have, its right there in the sentence. I would be just as happy to do all of this with IRC.
Are you seriously recommending WhatsApp? I wouldn’t use that personally, and I got to say I wouldn’t even use it if you paid me.
I dont like calls either. I have to send back documents, email is 99% of the comms i use. Teams worked in a previous role that was constant group work on a single thing.
I have to send back documents,
You guys still passing around documents? I try and put a stop to that as soon as I see it.
You losers are still using words to convey information?
I buy and sell things, so yes. Constantly.
Look, that’s great, but I just want to warn you that you just said the words “Teams is the best way to communicate”.
Are you okay, mate?
Except, also no calls. They’re horribly jarring and often interrupt the workflow.
Yeah, I shouldnt have included calls. I hate calls
What about https://m.youtube.com/shorts/8AzdptjcJmY
In settings, I set my notify sound to one called “vibe”. Seriously saved my sanity.
It did for a bit here
We’re learning about cloud services SO MUCH today.
