Ayaw mag-work yarn? WFH employees celebrate Microsoft Teams outage with memes
Work from home in the Philippines and elsewhere came to a standstill as the go-to office communications platform Microsoft Teams experienced technical issues in the morning.
Thousands of users, including in Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, China, India, and Taiwan could not send messages and use other features on the app for about three hours. The Microsoft Teams website also returned with a text that read, "operation failed with an unexpected error."
As of 12:13PM, Microsoft said Teams has started to recover.
During their downtime, employees resorted to the tried and true to cope with the situation: memes, memes, and memes. And the consensus is they were, apparently, happy with the situation. In the wise words of the Gen Z, "Ayaw mag-work yarn?"
Here are some of the best (and unironically relatable) entries about the Microsoft Teams snafu.
ms teams: filos: pic.twitter.com/JNP0kBs1De
— Prine 🌼 (@drunkenprinbae) July 21, 2022
WALANG WORK MS TEAMS IS DOWN CHROTS pic.twitter.com/bed2syPQeM
— jam | SOSHITAMTAM tues 💖 (@taengmother) July 21, 2022
I just want to say, Microsoft Teams, please take your time. No rush to fix your servers. Really it’s ok. We can wait.
— essence of chicken rice (@e_rinchansan) July 21, 2022
WE CAN WAIT. REALLY.
MS teams is down?So sad pic.twitter.com/CcRshrHXhS
— Herbe (@KSBBlamu977PGjJ) July 21, 2022
So Microsoft Teams just went down… I guess it’s time for me to clock out pic.twitter.com/JMlAb1W7p8
— some bald headed gay slag 🌈💖💅🏾 (@astoldbymarkus) July 21, 2022
down ms teams pic.twitter.com/9qcED4IBx4
— siwonie's ♡ #SS9inManila (@ellaaatrix) July 21, 2022
*ms teams is down*
— k 🌱 #LiveLaughLoveEra (@cagedyeet) July 21, 2022
me: oh no 😩😩
also me:pic.twitter.com/QRr5KXTEt2
MS Teams is down.
— Lester Park (@irrelevantfan91) July 21, 2022
Corporate slaves rn: pic.twitter.com/iVNWdVjV3I
When MS Teams comes back onlinepic.twitter.com/GPek416PSU
— Abby Jean (Taylor’s Version) (@abbyjeanwilder) July 21, 2022
Everyone is Office right now. #MSTeams #TeamsDown #MicrosoftTeams pic.twitter.com/Y2FXkuFmBw
— Office Memes for Working Teens (@omfwt) July 21, 2022
#MicrosoftTeams
— Hemant (@Sportscasmm) July 21, 2022
Microsoft teams has stopped which means work has stopped
Everyone: pic.twitter.com/UzxZwfF29E
Employee right now #MicrosoftTeams #teamsdown #teams pic.twitter.com/pxRq88q5w1
— piyush sharma (@psharma902) July 21, 2022
"There's a global outage with MS Teams. Global support teams are working on the resolution of the issue."
— Jox Populi 🏳️🌈 (@Joxyfication) July 21, 2022
Me: pic.twitter.com/7PtiZVFqSA
MS Teams engineer right now pic.twitter.com/onN30k8uvM
— Saahil Sharma (@faahil) July 21, 2022
Happy Microsoft Teams is Down day to all who celebrate.
— Amy Gray (@_AmyGray_) July 21, 2022
Microsoft Teams is down and to be honest people life is better off it
— Belinda Barnet (@manjusrii) July 21, 2022
If MS Teams doesnt wanna work today then neither do I 🤪
— AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA (@ggcabana) July 21, 2022
What if someone intentionally made MS Teams buggy so that the exhausted work force can take a damn break from all this shit?
— lyks 🎀🐨〰️ (@titalykz) July 21, 2022
Wow amazing MS Teams crashing, is like a blessing in disguise.
— B (@beaaabeee) July 21, 2022
Finally, MS teams is user-friendly.
— Marxist Bontempelli (@beaub93) July 21, 2022
