My company's VPN was extremely spotty for a few days. Other than that though, the stuff I work on wasn't affected

Not at all. No personal PC problems and none at work that impacted me (if any existed). Edit: and I didn't go anywhere that day that was impacted, although that seems more lucky since I did stop by a McDonalds for the first time in a month or more since it was in the shopping area my wife and I were at and several McD's were impacted in Japan, apparently.

crowdstrike? did i miss something?

Somehow it seems to have only affected other people I've heard from on Lemmy.

Our infrastructure engineering software was down, on the only office day that week. Ended up going into the field to do more inspections, and we finally almost caught up on the CAD/reports this week.

I couldn't log into to our time recording app for about four hours, which caused me no issues whatsoever!

It only affected our time clock system. So we just used paper timecards for a week while IT worked on getting it back up.

Professionally, not at all. My company doesn't use Crowdstrike. Unlike one of my former employers who had thousands of systems down for days. The Field techs there made a killing in overtime.

Personally: My (54m) oldest kid (17m) was stuck at Laguardia for 10 hours. Fortunately, a great gate agent at LGA got him on a flight that evening, with a first class upgrade, to get him into an airport about 1.5 hour drive from the house. I picked him up at midnight and home by 1:30.

Schadenfreude.

It didn’t at all. I refuse to run Microsoft products at home and in the cloud. At work I learned some Postgres database servers are running inside virtualized Linux on Windows hosts, which is kind of disgusting.