The Website is Down #1: Sales Guy vs. Web Dude

Josh Weinberg · 2.8M views · 2009-04-14 · 10:24

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Overview

A comedy video in which a salesperson demands that a web developer fix a down website, with the two talking past each other. It won a Webby award.

On Hacker News

HN treats it as a beloved piece of tech-workplace humor, quoted whenever an outage or sales-versus-engineering friction comes up.

Recommended by 1 HN people across 1 months · HN mentions 2019–2024

Topics

Satire & parody Web development Cloud, DevOps & reliability

What people said

pmoriarty · 2019-12 · Recommendation
Something along similar lines that I really enjoyed was the "Website is Down" series of videos, starting with "Sales Guy vs Web Dude": [VIDEO]
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samtheprogram · 2024-03 · Joke / meme
> do you really think there are masses of people who can’t tell the difference between a single sign on service being down and individual sites being down and reporting it to downdetector? Have you never seen The Website Is Down? [VIDEO] The answer is: way more people than a software developer might think. Ask anyone in IT, or go to anywhere bugs are reported and read a handful.
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Der_Einzige · 2023-06 · Joke / meme
Yeah, but how much of that time is actually butt in seat coding vs hardly paying attention in meetings? I've worked at multiple big firms and startups and I don't believe that even the majority of people are working "40 hours" in the same way that most people work 40 hours. This is the wonderful thing about technology. I was literally motivated to get into tech by the old "The Website is Down" videos, and in practice, it seems to be how many tech workers operate: [VIDEO]
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