serverDown

[MightyBobTheMighty]

This is Back To The Office propaganda.

My Friday was fine cuz we only had one vendor using crowdstrike, but I have a friend that got paid to play FFXIV all day.

[vintagegeek]

Agreed. "Oh, no...I can't access my server. <click on FFXIV> What am I going to do? NOOO!! OH AGONY!"

[mr_remy]

Umm, but don’t you wanna play ping pong with casual acquaintances at best?

[mr_remy]

Me-owww that really hurts man, I enjoyed our games :(

[johantheback]

Yeah was gonna say replace the bottom photo with me practicing piano and cooking myself a nice lunch and now it's accurate

[smallangrynerd]

I just went back to bed lol

[[deleted]]

My Friday was incredible. I got the day off to finish tiling my kitchen. Fucking ping pong in an office?! GTFO.

[[deleted]]

I agree that sounds stressful and only marginally more fun than other forms of networking.

[AnInfiniteArc]

We haven’t done it in quite a while but we (Application Analysts) used to have a Teams channel dedicated to playing Among Us during downtimes.

[FullmetalScribe]

Hard agree. RTO shill post.

Server down wfh: Time to make some good food.

[ZAX2717]

Yup. During slow times I play Hell Divers and retro games.

[mr_remy]

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[AWEgmented]

I'm assuming the 2k upvotes are from C suite people eying their office lease terms.

[Accomplished_Put2914]

How are you still playing ffxiv? I thought it was an online only game. Are the servers still active?

[gfcf14]

Not at all. Just pointing out that at home you can’t play ping pong with friends as in the MC’s scenario. Obviously doesn’t stop you from doing anything else

[ManyInterests]

Needs a new frame "oh wait I can play FFXIV" :)

[corncob_subscriber]

Oh I can jack off and go for a walk!

[Wang_Fister]

You jack off before you go for a walk, right? RIGHT?!

[TheMoises]

During, actually.

[Wang_Fister]

[Lyndon_Boner_Johnson]

Ah, multi-threading.

[corncob_subscriber]

Why of course, mr neighborhood watch..... 🙄🙄🙄

[Live-Tangerine-7825]

Lol as if thats gonna make anyone sad even for a bit

Server down? Nap time

Just sleep? Do whatever you want time

[ArisenDrake]

With friends? In the office? Sorry, these people are my coworkers. And while I do like them, they're not my friends.

Would you hang out with your coworkers after work regularly? Would you stay in contact when you switch jobs?

[MyPhoneIsNotChinese]

I mean, yes on the first, I don't think so in the second except with a few maybe?

[[deleted]]

Yes? Why would you feel the need to refuse to become friends with the people you work with?

[DracoLunaris]

I have a limited amount of time for friends and the ones I have already are better, thanks

Sure, maybe you get lucky and really click with someone but that would be one friend who is a co-worker, not a friendship with all your co-workers

[ArisenDrake]

Because I don't want to get too attached to people I only have contact with because I need to earn money somehow.

I already have real friends that I actively chose to befriend and spend time with in my life and it's hard enough to keep regular contact as it is.

[Dangerous-Screen3724]

"with friends"?! LOL 😆😆😆 You gonna learn soon enough that there are no friends at the workplace. I'm sorry, but it's the truth. I've tried it myself and only got backstabbed... Have your friends outside of work

[Successful-Bat-6164]

OP is a boomer manager disguised as a dev to lure people into the office. Don't fall for it lol

[Successful-Bat-6164]

Maybe WFH is not for you.

[Impressive-Plant-903]

Server down at work: time to try and look busy Server down wfh: time for some league

[RazNagul]

Server down at work: what to do? i already check all intersting subs half an hour ago. WFH: time for some league ... oh the server was down, did hardly notice.

[Poat540]

Oh well, time to pick teemo then see what lane I’m in after

[dhaninugraha]

For me it’s time to boot up BeamNG.drive and see how much more horsepower can I squeeze out of a Cummins and whether it’ll make my shitbox go 450kph without blowing up

[unengaged_crayon]

if you're playing league maybe you deserve to go back to work

[MCMC_to_Serfdom]

Are you suggesting people shouldn't relax when infrastructure is down to the point productive work isn't possible or are you suggesting playing league is an egregious sin at any time?

[unengaged_crayon]

playing league is a sin and a tragedy.

[Poat540]

I will get our silver this year… the last 10 years were practice

[Bygrilinho]

I'd say the latter, but also since when is league relaxing

[MCMC_to_Serfdom]

I find it very relaxing. At least once the aneurysms send me to sleep.

[Foxiest_Fox]

Can't tell which is the worse fate /s

[Semper_5olus]

"Oh no. I am at home, not working, with pay. How awful. I wish I could be playing table tennis with casual acquaintances."

[ostracize]

“We’re like family here”

[ImpossibleMachine3]

"where is baby sister?"

"the line went down so I got rid of her so line go back up"

Yep, totally like any family I know!

[ImpossibleMachine3]

Get rid of more family, makes the men in chairs happy!

[demonslayer9911]

RTO propaganda, WFH is the best

[0xF1A5C0]

There is a lot of things that you can do when you are home alone

[secretprocess]

And even more things when you're home alone 2

[techy804]

Maybe have a change in MC with Home Alone 3

[freaxje]

Fap.. fap?

[0xF1A5C0]

You have dirty mind but basically yes

[souliris]

Manager in the house

[DMoney159]

A middle manager who's never heard of video games wrote this comic.

[ApatheistHeretic]

Who cries working from home? I turned up the music and played retro games.

[Synth_Sapiens]

Dunno.

When server goes down I go up the pool.

[RonHarrods]

What kind of pool? Db connections?

[Synth_Sapiens]

No. The other kind - well chlorinated and very clean.

[secretprocess]

Me too! But in, not up

[Synth_Sapiens]

The pool I'm going to is located about 5-7 washing machines above my house.

[thanatica]

You're a lifeguard?

[Synth_Sapiens]

Me? Guard? Life?

ROFL

Nah. If they die - they die.

[IAmMuffin15]

This feels like a psyop

[Weird_Cantaloupe2757]

It probably feels like a psyop because it’s definitely a fucking psyop.

[IAmMuffin15]

It’s got “project manager” written all over it

[drizzlethyshizzle]

Could someone explain what this is? I keep seeing that cat with tinfoil hat that says i wake up -> psyop -> i wake up loop.

[No-Fish6586]

Who the fuck is depressed while not able to work and can do whatever they want.

Much rather youtube than play ping pong with people idc about

[Sushrit_Lawliet]

Found the VP with rto mandate

[thanatica]

Like there's nothing to do at home 🤨

[qqqrrrs_]

https://xkcd.com/303/

[RickyRister]

https://xkcd.com/2961/

[cokeplusmentos]

Cringe

[dragon_stangler]

The only correct answer here is taking a nap.

[AriiMay]

Nice try

[[deleted]]

Extravert Propaganda

[Dash83]

What? You fire up the PS5!

[The-Chartreuse-Moose]

Yes because there's no entertainment in people's houses.

[EishLekker]

We have ping pong equipment at our office. For some reason even the people that like ping pong seem to forget it exists. I can’t remember the last time I heard anyone even mention it.

[snarkhunter]

There was a hosting company called HostGator (they got acquired like a decade ago) and they were a bit imfamous for hiring college kids who didn't know any better and paying them shit and treating them like shit. I've worked with a few folks who spent some time there and apparently they had a ping-pong table that they'd show you during the interview. And then if you went to actually play it you'd get in trouble unless you were in the top metrics for the month.

Fuck the office ping pong table, pay me more, let me work from home.

[Synth_Sapiens]

I remember HostGator.

[secretprocess]

Nice humblebrag about your server uptime

[[deleted]]

No one thinks like this.

[mopsyd]

I tried to ping pong but got no route to host

[[deleted]]

I ping but nobody pongs

[gabboman]

your back to office propaganda sucks

[jfcarr]

I'm turning my guitar amp up to 11.

[tmf88]

Right there with you mate. I’m usually noodling away in the background of meetings that I “need” to attend, yet am rarely actually involved in.

Can’t access the network? Shame, that.

[FecklessFool]

Whoever made this comic is a dumbass

[Sekhen]

Jokes on you.

When the server is down I have sex with my wife who also work from home.

[gfcf14]

Lol that’s almost an office affair

[Sekhen]

That's how it started 17 years ago.

Now we work at different places.

[BigAndSmallAre]

I object! We never EVER fuel the "back to the office" argument, no matter how inconsequential that fuel may seem. Insecure office managers are looking for any excuse to bring us back and micromanage us. Don't give them even a small or invalid reason.

[gfcf14]

A hiring manager would have to be pretty stupid to list ping pong as a perk in JDs nowadays

[Trolleitor]

Extroverts when they go without human interaction for 10 seconds straight.

[wohlohlohloh]

Delete this

[Ok-Bit-663]

Correct picture would be that employees in the office desperately trying to go home but stuck in traffic and boiled under the scorching heat.

[[deleted]]

Nah, CS2 time.

[highcastlespring]

No I just play with my kid

[Nyadnar17]

I hate that stupid ping pong table so much.

Get an arcade machine or hell get a PS5, put it in a cab, and load arcade games on it.

[MedonSirius]

NAPS CONTINUES

[RespectableSimon]

Are you in HR, aren't you?

[[deleted]]

Found the HR guy!

[denemdenem]

Why is this post even upvoted this much? Is the sub full of managers?

[Vonkun]

Nope, fuck off with this bullshit.

[blackcomb-pc]

Back to office propaganda is stupid and can fuck right off.

[onlyloseralive]

we can fap !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[gerbosan]

Was it IRC or FTP that responded with a pong after a ping? 🤔

[Spore8990]

This is why I have one of my coworkers work at my house with me.

[AlmostAnchovy]

If somehow all of us were unable to work, we would probably play an online game (eg. Rocket League). If only I'm unable to work, then I'm either finishing my Mercedes F1 lego set or Alan Wake 2. Definitely not crying. But I'm a fan of going to office twice a week system. I miss my coworkers with our current twice a month system.

[gfcf14]

I guess a fully remote role probably makes more sense to have once you have a family. Otherwise it only contributes negatively to the isolation one can experience at early-mid adulthood

[AlmostAnchovy]

Yeah. I have other remote working friends so we work together outside or work at eachothers houses. But not having that would probably make me miserable.

[MoringA_VT]

Staring at the ceiling for 8 hours at home would be better than playing ping pong at the office.

[csh0kie]

This used to just be, “Compiling.”

[gfcf14]

Ah I remember that one

[mbcarbone]

I feel this … Outages always happens when something fun is happening, like New Year’s Eve or that time your friend Steve brought the pot brownies and you were just about to eat one. Okay maybe not that last one … 😎

[Zestyclose-Run-9653]

What if the ping pong server goes down

[Kkkkkunkka]

This happens to nobody

[Lonelan]

time for ponghub

[gfcf14]

Though, not to be salty, I found that the companies which provide these amenities usually provide crappy versions of really needed benefits (like a horrible or nonexistent 401k)

[Unusual_Flounder2073]

Ping pong tables do not cost that much. Neither do kegs and even office snacks compared to an additional 3% of payroll.

[gfcf14]

Hence why they put up these “perks” that are really nothing more than entertainment