Crowdstrike software company rewards retrained IT experts with ten-dollar vouchers
After the global computer malfunctions caused by the error, software company Crowdstrike thanked overworked IT experts with a ten-dollar Uber Eats voucher. In the accompanying email, a top manager from Crowdstrike referred to the fact that the PC crashes at the previous Friday had given employees additional work.
"To express our gratitude, the next coffee or snack will be late at night for us," the voucher for the food delivery service Uber Eats stated, according to a Bloomberg report on Wednesday (local time). A Crowdstrike spokesperson told Bloomberg that the voucher codes were given to team members and partners who helped Crowdstrike's customers restore their systems. They were not sent to customers, she added.
A faulty update for Crowdstrike's IT security software caused widespread disruptions in many parts of the world. Approximately 8.5 million Windows computers were affected. The consequences were particularly noticeable in the aviation industry, but some supermarkets, hospitals, and broadcasters also had issues.
- After identifying the root cause as a faulty update in Crowdstrike's IT security software, additional work was assigned to their IT-Experts to help mitigate the impacts on affected customers.
- Following the computer failures caused by the software glitch, Crowdstrike recognized the efforts of their IT-Experts and partners by providing them with Ten-Dollar-Vouchers from Uber Eats as a token of appreciation.
- Even after hours of working tirelessly to fix the Computer failures caused by the Crowdstrike software, the company showed its gratitude by offering its IT-Experts and partners a late-night treat with the provided Ten-Dollar-Vouchers from Crowdstrike.
