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

I can't believe this isn't satire. I hope these incompetent fuckers get sued into bankruptcy

Holy shit, they also cancelled it. Lmao

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the Uber Eats page provided an error message that said the gift card “has been canceled by the issuing party and is no longer valid.”

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the Uber Eats page provided an error message that said the gift card “has been canceled by the issuing party and is no longer valid.”

You can't write comedy this good...

I lost a day's holiday, and our team spent 8 man days on this entirely preventable mistake.

$10? Try extending our licence by another year for free, that might start going towards it.

One of the rare cases where no gift would have been better

I expect these clowns to lose most of their market share within two years and get sued to oblivion.

My firm bills by the hour and so far I think we are at 10+ billing hours per consultant wasting time with client tech support trying to get back on our VDIs. Nevermind how much time is being wasted doing the work through work arounds. My guess is that our firm alone will bill for about $100,000 extra this month while having accomplished less than normal. I am sure Crowdstrike's gift card will fix it though.

Give them some time. They have to manually reboot the gift card servers.

This would be even funnier if there was exactly one $10 gift card everyone has to fight over.

“To express our gratitude, your next cup of coffee or late night snack is on us!”

A $10 Ubereats gift card will barely cover fees and taxes, let alone the actual item. What a clown ass gesture.

$10 to Uber eats, so basically it’s covering fees only.

So one banana.

Satire is well & truly dead.

I thought this was going to be The Onion.

This is a typical mail a phishing campaign would send out, and we have already said to people "never believe this kind of messages. They are all fake.

Now, if a genuine company sends out mails with a genuine gift-cards (what the article on techcrunch seems to indicate) .. this is NOT helpfull at all!!!

And that comming from a cybersecurity company (rolling-eyes)

Not nearly enough. CrowdStrike should give a pizza party.

“All of CrowdStrike understands the gravity and impact of the situation”

Here's $10.

They are going to get sued for billions and this little stunt isn't going to change that. Should have implemented proper software testing before you took ever corporate computer in the world, but companies like this always force their developers to rush instead of do the right thing and when it bites them expect that things will carry on as normal. I can't see many renewals in their future.

This is very misleading!

CrowdStrike did not send gift cards to customers or clients. We did send these to our teammates and partners who have been helping customers through this situation. Uber flagged it as fraud because of high usage rates.

This is a classic move to not get sued, exactly like airlines do. If you try to sue them after redeeming the gift card, they can argue that you've been made whole, and do 'ot 'eed additional compensation.

!nottheonion@lemmy.ml

How is this not The Onion?

Only redeemable for CrowdStrike credits and only at participating locations.*

* No locations are participating at this time.

Here is nothing but we are really, really, south park sorry.

Bruh

All they gotta do is change their company name to avoid lawsuits. Anyone got any ideas for a new name for them?.. 🤔

ClusterFuck comes to mind...

In total?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=15HTd4Um1m4

Insult upon injury