EP.882

Blue Screens Everywhere

Hello Kathy’s!

We are back and better than ever! 🔥 

The boys dropped another episode yesterday, and we’re catching you up with this letter!

Winning Brendon Urie GIF by Panic! At The Disco

On today’s pod:

  • Kamala enters the chat

  • WTF happened to CrowdStrike?

  • Bye bye Kimberly

  • Earnings szn

THE FULL STORY

BSOD’s and Invalid Gift Cards

Were you able to log into work last week?

CrowdStrike had a bit of a hiccup last week. 😬 

People around the world were faced with the “blue screen of death”. The outage happened due to a corrupted update; as a result, over 8.5 million computers worldwide got an extra vacation day. 😂

Banks, airports, hospitals – you name it, they felt the pain.

Bad Santa Pain GIF by Sky

So how does $62 billion company recover from such a blunder?

$10 Uber Eats gift cards of course! 😂 

They sent these gift cards to their partners, except many of the cards turned out to be as effective as Trump’s Secret Service.

USELESS!

Recipients trying to redeem the cards encountered error messages stating that the voucher had been canceled by the issuing party and was no longer valid.

Turns out Uber flagged it as fraud due to high usage rates.

CEO George Kurtz did his best to apologize and assured everyone that they’re working hard to fix things. But let’s be real, a coffee and a croissant won’t quite cut it for the chaos caused. ☕️ 

THE HALFSIES
THE LOL’S

Memes that made us laugh this week

Have a great weekend Kathy’s!

We’ll be in your inbox with a brand new episode next week!

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