Ever seen The IT Crowd?
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Yes also lived it. I swear capital one was operating off a play book written by the same folks that did IT crowd in the early 2000s
No updates for me other than we are closing in on a month soon and things are gonna get weird as we drift into over a month long shutdown… I will note while I make less my firms stock price is the highest it’s been in years…
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Entering November is gonna be pretty crazy for me. I work at the local food pantry, which my mom runs, and we are planning to be absolutely slammed next month. We typically only allow patrons to come once a month, but since a lot of folks who come regularly use food stamps or some other form of public assistance, and they won’t be having that in November, we’re planning to allow them to come twice, but they won’t have as many options if they come a second time. We also will still be enforcing standard requirements to qualify, i.e. they have to be a town resident. We also do have a financial requirement, but I dunno if we may adjust that for those who don’t have paychecks right now; that requirement is pretty low as is.
We want to ensure everyone who comes can get what they need until the shutdown abates, but also try to prevent certain people from just leeching off us. We have had to deal with a few of those characters in the past.
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Me scratching my head and watching my stock price go up and up during the AWS outage.
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Everyone realizing how important aws is as the internet as they know it stops working due to a dns issue in a single building in ashburn va ran by Amazon lol.
Ohh shoot buy buy
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That was a wild day. Literally my company was crippled by it. As were most
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In the past I would have been in
The trenches dealing with the fallout but where I am now we are all in on azure and MS so I didn’t even notice the outage myself. Now if Microsoft went down its end times levels of impact..
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Same here. It affected some of our plugins but overall the effects were negligible. Made for a pretty fun day on the service side of AV tho I can tell you that much.
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I work for Amazon. I was on vacation for most of that day watching the chaos.
I ended up having to scrap vacation and come do a lot of repairs once IAD was back up though.
16 years with Amazon and never seen a day like it. Absolutely bonkers.
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Not the vacation!!! I am so sorry for your loss, cut down in it’s prime… I hope you get to enjoy the next one uninterrupted
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We shall see. I’m taking a vacation day today and gonna be out of town today through the weekend but I’ve been instructed to keep my laptop nearby in case of aftershocks. 
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I hope you survived the layoffs there this week. Just sad when a large employer ‘re-prioritizes business operations’ and puts 15,000 people out of work. I wonder how many H1-B holders lost their jobs?
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2 days until we hit the next major milestone where people will feel heavy impact if this continues.
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I survived the layoffs unscathed. I kind of figured I would considering they had to call me in on a vacation day because nobody else knew how to fix my teams stuff. Would have been a real awkward decision on their part to get rid of the only person who can keep your ship afloat.
I’ve only seen rumors about the impact of the layoffs so I can only guess. Rumor is another round in January. I retain my health insurance for now.
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I heard some contingency fund is being “forced” to be use to fund snap for a bit at least…
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I’ve heard allot of stuff. Honestly with this administration until it happens it’s hard to know if it will. Regardless stuff was delayed and the contingency fund which previously was able to fund a full month is short and guess who approved that earlier. In 2018 this wasn’t a concern because the funding was setup properly.
It all just feels more cruel and malicious than previous shutdowns. Lots of petty very calculated moves to hurt people and pass blame for politics. Just allot of bad vibes all around honestly. Maybe there is hope but we are already officially tied with longest shutdown and I doubt anything will take place tomorrow to move the needle but who knows maybe I’m wrong…
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1 in 8 depend on foodstamps. That is a huge problem. No one should expect the government to feed them or take care of them. They always do a poor job at the highest expense possible. People with power care very little about those without and that has always been the statis quo. When folks take resposibility for thier own lives it is always better. Rations with the illusion of choice is not freedom. We need to depend on each other. Not an organisation that can not even balance it’s books or explain where all this cash goes. Want in one hand and crap in the other. Wonder which one fills up faster
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Actually uhh the SNAP program is surprisingly effective and efficient for a welfare program. Food shelters only would cost 10 times what it costs to simply load a card every month and allow folks to buy groceries like a normal person at places that are already setup for profit to operate.
There are the issues of food deserts and large chains isolating communities but that’s part of a larger issue…
It’s expensive as a program because of the number of people using it but that’s an issue that the federal government can’t really fix without breaking large corporations up and forcing rules to redistribute wealth which gets into a conversation way out of scope for a yoyo server.
In the end it doesn’t really matter why we are here today the point is people rely on these things now and it’s rolling into winter. It’s not like people can plant crops right now or forage a field due to the weather and that would still require a lead time.
All that to say timing and optics of several things going on feels played out by all involved as games to get what they want callous to those impacted. I’ll leave it there as I’m circling a line that I promised not to cross and I’m in that gray area where I shouldn’t be talking politics anyway.
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