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CrowdStrike offers a $10 apology gift card to say sorry for outage

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Re: CrowdStrike offers a $10 apology gift card to say sorry for outage

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‘ On Wednesday, some of the people who posted about the gift card said that when they went to redeem the offer, they got an error message saying the voucher had been canceled. When TechCrunch checked the voucher, the Uber Eats page provided an error message that said the gift card “has been canceled by the issuing party and is no longer valid.”’

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Post by pfdietz »

indigodaddy wrote: post #2

‘ On Wednesday, some of the people who posted about the gift card said that when they went to redeem the offer, they got an error message saying the voucher had been canceled. When TechCrunch checked the voucher, the Uber Eats page provided an error message that said the gift card “has been canceled by the issuing party and is no longer valid.”’

Oh good grief.

Re: CrowdStrike offers a $10 apology gift card to say sorry for outage

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Post by gosub100 »

If I'm ever part of a company that causes an outage like this I will resign immediately and offer to help as a consultant for an immediate 5-figure cash retainer. I can't imagine how many devs at CS likely went into full overdrive and aren't getting paid for it.

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Post by mikelovenotwar »

indigodaddy wrote: post #2

‘ On Wednesday, some of the people who posted about the gift card said that when they went to redeem the offer, they got an error message saying the voucher had been canceled. When TechCrunch checked the voucher, the Uber Eats page provided an error message that said the gift card “has been canceled by the issuing party and is no longer valid.”’

Please let this be true. Hilarious

Re: CrowdStrike offers a $10 apology gift card to say sorry for outage

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Post by kogus »

This reminds me of something that happened at a former employer. After I had been employed there for a couple of years, someone in HR or Legal noticed that the programmers had never signed any "our code belongs to the company" agreement. So they asked us to sign a paper to that effect, and gave us each a check for $20. My thought was that I always assumed the company owned this code, but if they were going to pay for it, then $20 was waaaay too little. Anyway I took the $20, signed the paper, and got back to work. But it always gave me a chuckle.
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