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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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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.

C-suite people developed a sort of immunity against feeling shame, remorse or regret.

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

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Curious who gets one. Like, a big company (airline, bank, etc) that had to hand touch 10,000+ devices across the world.

Crowdstrike is sending what? Like 15 $10 cards to the little area in IT that handles desktops/kiosks/atms/etc? Or the to the Cyber area that bought it, but mostly wasn't saddled with fixing the issue?

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

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This reminds me of the family who was awarded $4 in damages for a wrongful death suit. [0] It's almost worse than nothing. [0] https://hotair.com/jazz-shaw/2018/06/01/jury-awards-family-f...

It kinda is worse, it's saying, "We admit we fucked up, we admit we owe you, we just don't give a damn." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peppercorn_(law)

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the Uber Eats page provided an error message that said the gift card “has been canceled by the issuing party and is no longer valid.”’

Crowdstrike, WHY DID YOU REDEEM IT?!

DO NOT REDEEM!

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.”’

Do not redeem the card!!
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