Work: Today, our e-mail server went down. When I called IT to find... - FML

By Butch - 04/07/2016 17:19 - United States - Mcdonough

Today, our e-mail server went down. When I called IT to find out what the status was, they told me they e-mailed everyone with an update. FML

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By Beva - 17/01/2013 05:03 - Sweden - Falk?ping

Today, due to technical problems, I had to call the company's IT-support as my computer went totally haywire. I explained via phone that I couldn't access anything. The support then tried contacting me by e-mail and got upset with me when I didn't answer. FML

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By Anonymous - 13/06/2014 15:36 - Afghanistan - Kabul

Today, thinking we'd still be able to finish our project in time for tomorrow's deadline, my work group put off doing any work until today. When we logged into the website we have to use, we found it was down for maintenance all day. FML

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Asked and answered

By Anonymous - 18/07/2021 09:01 - Brazil - Itapema

Today, after a 16-hour day fixing the computer network at my workplace, I didn't even get a "Thank you". I did, however, get people whining about how, "That computer crap never works" and, "Why do we need IT anyway?" FML

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By Anonymous - 14/12/2012 23:16 - United Kingdom - Bridgwater

Today, I sent an email to my boss saying I'd fixed a glitch in our mail servers. He called me later, angrily shouting that I'd done a piss-poor job of fixing it, because my email had spammed his inbox with several hundred duplicate messages. FML

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By benoit - 15/03/2013 12:35 - France

Today, I walked into work, a day after losing my shit with our systems admin, due to her taking ages to enable my new email account. I was soon bitched out, warned, and suspended over several lewd emails having been sent overnight from my account to various female co-workers. FML

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By Farah - 26/09/2016 14:42 - Bangladesh

Today, I e-mailed an employer to ask about a job I had applied for earlier. The employer in question was on vacation. The person who replied had the position which I had applied for mentioned in their signature. FML

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By Anonymous - 07/04/2011 17:32 - United States

Today, four hours before a test, I received an email from my professor saying that the test had been canceled. When I checked my email again before bed, I found another email from my professor saying that his email had been hacked and the test was was still on. FML

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Thanks mom

By Anonymous - 27/01/2017 00:00

Today, I checked my inbox and realized I got an email from a potential employer, saying they were having trouble getting a hold of me by phone. They called while my mom was using my phone to look up directions to a place, and she answered, kindly hanging up when they asked for me. FML

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By disconnected - 23/09/2014 20:19 - Brazil - Santa Maria

Today, we spent an entire day without being able to do work because our internet connection was down. Turns out, only the router had crashed and nobody bothered to reset it "to avoid doing further damage". FML

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Scam artist's dream job

By Anonymous - 22/04/2024 02:00

Today, our company got hacked. Our secretary fell for someone badly impersonating the head of customer service and sent them a full list of employee information from one of our new clients. The boss wants to blame us in IT for not training her on how to avoid this. He fell for a phishing attack last week. FML

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CaptainSmith28 19

Monday 4 July 2016 22:40

Tech support at its finest

VeryCreativeName 3

Monday 4 July 2016 22:42

"Did you try turning it off and on again?"

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L3G3ND4RYB4D4SS 6

Monday 4 July 2016 22:38

Comment moderated for rule-breaking.

fakedsincerity 32

Tuesday 5 July 2016 0:29

Yeah, that's the point of the FML.

firemedic841 11

Monday 4 July 2016 22:39

Run by Hilary Clinton's IT people?

CaptainSmith28 19

Monday 4 July 2016 22:40

Tech support at its finest

VeryCreativeName 3

Monday 4 July 2016 22:42

"Did you try turning it off and on again?"

water1058 8

Tuesday 5 July 2016 1:50

I loved IT Crowd!

scififemme 23

Monday 4 July 2016 22:43

That's happened at my office as well!

DrChrisOfWumbo 12

Monday 4 July 2016 23:04

Clinton probably deleted your emails. Man FYL

nevaryzarc 21

Monday 4 July 2016 23:17

If it was a planned outage there would of been an email prior. If it was an oh crap something broke, the IT department is probably already aware of it and you are most likely the twentieth person to interrupt them to tell them what they already know.

Zombonic 14

Monday 4 July 2016 23:40

This, they were probably being sarcastic because of so many people calling them.

militarybrat 21

Tuesday 5 July 2016 5:27

Doesnt matter if they are the first or the twenty first. Unless something came out saying it was down how is this person supposed to know? Same thing when you call for an outage at your house. And guess what? They arent rude!

nesteremily 31

Monday 4 July 2016 23:47

Something similar happened when our registers went down at work and our manager asked why we weren't taking orders.

tj4234 35

Tuesday 5 July 2016 1:32

This isn't similar.

TheTacoMan 24

Tuesday 5 July 2016 4:58

It's similar to when Hillary's servers "went down too."

kpetrovski 24

Monday 4 July 2016 23:48

Woooooooooooooooooooooooow.

PhantomKitty 26

Tuesday 5 July 2016 0:56

And the Best Comment of the Year award goes to...

False_Stupidity 41

Tuesday 5 July 2016 3:10

Not sure who it goes to, but it sure doesn't go to #10.

epicgamer 18

Tuesday 5 July 2016 5:04

**** i accidently pressed like when i meant dislike. If you are reading this comment remember that there should be one less like than there is.

brenton490 19

Monday 4 July 2016 23:58

I'm guessing that update email will tell you when its done like this. Subject:Update from:tech support To: office Servers are back up if your getting this.

tj4234 35

Tuesday 5 July 2016 1:34

Subject: re. Update To: Tech Support From: Office *you're

brenton490 19

Wednesday 6 July 2016 4:31

Subject: re.re. update From: Tech support To: Office Thank you Jim.

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