Just 16 Hilarious Tweets About the Slack Outage to Make Us All Feel Less Alone

Hi, there. 👋

Can anyone hear me? Is anybody out there? Am I alone? Is this the beginning of my own version of The Walking Dead?

I only ask because I'm a remote worker and Slack is down:

And since my cat doesn't speak English or do anything else useful, I'm being forced to use Gchat to communicate with the outside world, like I'm some sort of frosted-tipped peasant from 2006. 

My life is a tragedy.

But since misery loves company — and I refuse to suffer alone — I am going to help soothe our internet outage-induced wounds in the only way I know how. By sharing some of my favorite tweets from this dark time.

Should I probably be working on tomorrow's issue of THE LATEST instead? Yes, but let's be honest. If an outage happens on the internet, and no one tweets about it, did it really happen?

Remote workers when #slack is down: pic.twitter.com/PxYnZ4uxjH

— Michelle Frechette Ames (@michelleames) July 29, 2019

Obligatory complaining on one centralized platform about another centralized chat platform being down. #slack @SlackHQ pic.twitter.com/e88BUIa78r

— manschutz (@manschutz) July 29, 2019

seriously. how did people communicate with co-workers back in the day? without having to actually hearing their voices or having any sort of human interaction? #slackdown pic.twitter.com/Zkw2cE18N0

— not today, satan. not today. (@nicaha23) July 29, 2019

When the slack is down pic.twitter.com/QaWjyvqM0a

— Kevin Clang ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ (@kevclang) July 29, 2019

Slack is down. Here's a live look at me RN. pic.twitter.com/73O12JQCFK

— Justin Mitchell (@JustinMitchell_) July 29, 2019

Slack is down, breakout the backup communication method...... pic.twitter.com/OechLqjry4

— Abram Flansburg (@AbramFlansburg) July 29, 2019

Slack is down and I’m just looking a bunch of unsent messages with no idea what communication method to turn to. Do I take my headphones off and talk? pic.twitter.com/L9ePtdcLtU

— Adam Dorricott (@Dozzalon) July 29, 2019

Slack is down, chaos reigns pic.twitter.com/svhpm3ooia

— Will Tooke (@willtooketv) July 29, 2019

When slack is down and youre working remotely pic.twitter.com/ZhZcP8gUUp

— Clouded Slum (@CloudedSlum) July 29, 2019

I want to share funny gifs with my colleagues about @SlackHQ being down.

Oh.. wait. #SlackDown pic.twitter.com/1r1g0Ss2m4

— Brent Alexander (@brentalexander) July 29, 2019

mfw Slack is down pic.twitter.com/Y1ukWI8uHe

— Adam Rawnsley (@arawnsley) July 29, 2019

trying to communicate with your coworkers when slack is down#slackdown pic.twitter.com/aF0hBQ0cY0

— Anna Hollinrake🌤️ MCM Manchester! (@AnnaHollinrake) July 29, 2019

I'm losing my my mind y'all #SlackDown pic.twitter.com/zg127Es4d0

— Amrith Shanbhag (@amrith) July 29, 2019

Remote worker when Slack is down. pic.twitter.com/vFC5yDRLxy

— Marcos Arteaga (@SpanishBeardGuy) July 29, 2019

When #slack is down and you’re remote today. pic.twitter.com/Jt6JMv69rG

— Paulina Gallo ✨ (@paulpaultweets) July 29, 2019

The whole world trying to post messages on Slack right now, while Slack is down: pic.twitter.com/4kyjCv6F3J

— Felicia Gans (@FeliciaGans) July 29, 2019

Aw, nuts. Slack is back up. I guess I have go to do real work now. Boo.