'Amazon down': Warehouse staff dance, play baseball in viral TikTok videos amid outage
Work at Amazon's warehouses was suspended on Tuesday, December 6 due to a cloud computing system failure, leaving staffers with little to do but pass the time. Other tech giants that use Amazon's service, such as Netflix, Coinbase, and Slack, were also affected by the outage. TikTok videos have gone viral that show the employees seen hanging about, browsing their phones and munching snacks as Roddy Ricch's 'The Box' plays over the speakers. In one video, the caption says, "they actually had [us] have a meeting to play us this music."
Hundreds of TikTok videos with the hashtag #Amazondown show workers passing the time by dancing, singing karaoke and playing baseball. One user said, "Once in a lifetime thing at Amazon. I'm fashooooo taking advantage." In another TikTok, an employee relaxes on boxes while watching coworkers play a makeshift baseball game with bins. The outage, according to one Reddit member on an Amazon employees forum, was a 'humanizing' experience.
