By Alexis Weisend
The Seattle Times
(TNS)
Dancing in the office. Switching coffee for beers. Sailing away into the unknown.
Microsoft employees scrambling to fix Outlook may have had a rough Thursday. But for millions of office workers, it was the equivalent of an adult snow day” with workers are sharing more jokes than office memos.
Workers are posting videos of themselves pretending to be infuriated that they can’t get any work done without access to their email, only to give the camera a sly smile.
Some companies are leaning into the joke, posting videos of their employees dancing, riding bikes in the office and sleeping.
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Users are joking that, with the loss of one of Microsoft’s most important services, the company should rename its 365 suite to “Microsoft 364.”
Many of the jokes poke fun at the corporate world’s perhaps overreliance on the technology. A video of a man pretending to be Paul Revere, informing his fellow officemates about an upcoming meeting, has become especially popular as Outlook’s calendar reminders fail.
One user on X called Thursday’s Outlook outage “the best celebration of all” of Microsoft’s 25 years of Xbox, which the company marked with a drone show by the Space Needle featuring video game characters and the Xbox logo.
Workers are now sharing jokes about being hit with a flood of emails as the corporate world rights itself.
“To whoever at Microsoft is fixing the Outlook outage: please don’t rush. Feel free to take Teams offline too. Sincerely, The Entire World, one user posted on LinkedIn.
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