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.
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.
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.
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.
Copilot shit itself as well
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.
“Hey Cortana, why are we so bad at this?”
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.
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).
[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)
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.
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
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.
Nine fives is still better than a coin flip.
What does that mean?
It’s the inverse of five nines.
