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Either
1. Not notice and continue working.
or
2. Stop browsing CodeProject and start working 
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How did you do it!! 
We had a power outage yesterday but when the generator kicked in all we had were lights - no internet, no desktop power. It was interesting to see the different reactions - literally all of the above by various colleagues (although IT were summoned by a runner not by phone)
When it happened, I was actually on my way into a meeting ... to discuss a hypothetical Business Continuity scenario - "What if we experience a prolonged power outage across the region?" I kid you not.
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Pray to God. In God we Trust.
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Office? WFH since before Covid, where I've got faster Internet than at work...
And if it goes down, I know how to fix it...
Java, Basic, who cares - it's all a bunch of tree-hugging hippy cr*p
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Stuart Dootson wrote: And if it goes down, I know how to fix it...
Does that include fiber cable excavator errors?
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Take a nap.
>64
Some days the dragon wins. Suck it up.
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in the middle of the sea on a lump of steel, we sometimes need an outage to motivate us to go out and melt in the heat. 
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DaveAuld wrote: in the middle of the sea on a lump of steel
Wouldn't a swim around the plant be better, considering the heat?
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If you want to take a chance with the sharks and the high sea currents.......
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- Call IT (the ISP, or whatever)
- Continue working; most of my stuff doesn't require the 'net.
- Use my cellphone as a hotspot
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Not only am I the only software developer here, I am also the entire IT department.
__________________
Lord, grant me the serenity to accept that there are some things I just canât keep up with, the determination to keep up with the things I must keep up with, and the wisdom to find a good RSS feed from someone who keeps up with what Iâd like to, but just donât have the damn bandwidth to handle right now.
Š 2009, Rex Hammock
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yep, So this.
First I would reboot everything.
Then I would probably call the provider.
As I did this I would send the office staff home to work from there. (yes I have that ability)
Lastly I would continue working from my hotspot at work until time to go home. I would be probably the only one there.
I should say the only time we lose internet that badly usually means that the power is out in the block(unfortunately it happens way too often) Our UPS only lasts about 30 minutes which gives us enough time to power down everything gracefully.
oh well.
To err is human to really elephant it up you need a computer
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Eye candy (better than rubber ducking with an inanimate object), noise cancelling headphones, and coffee fixes everything dev related...
Graeme
"I fear not the man who has practiced ten thousand kicks one time, but I fear the man that has practiced one kick ten thousand times!" - Bruce Lee
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At least that I can recall. Construction accident near Microsoft.
I went through the halls ranting that we must have been hit by the GUID rollover (which doesn't take effect until like 3072)
Then I went home.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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Went home, or sent home? đ
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Go home and reconnect from there.
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Reconnect to what if the network at your workplace has gone down?
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Those parts of the enterprise which are not my workplace.
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Doesn't work for me as I WFH ....
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So then you go to the office!
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but I can still work offline.
CI/CD = Continuous Impediment/Continuous Despair
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We use VOIP
Of course, if I was really bothered, I could use my personal mobile to call them, but I have a principle of never using my personal mobile for work-related anything. Not since the phone calls when I was on leave anyway.
I can do most of my stuff without a connection, but if it came to necessity, I would head into the office to use the connection from there. But if it was the company infrastructure that was down then I'd call it a day
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IT support requires a "ticket" to be created before they will do anything, wait the internet's down so catch 22.
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I had similar with my hosting service: they had migrated the server but not the email passwords, so nobody on my domain could access emails (we didn't know that was the problem).
So I raised a ticket ... and they responded by email ... 
To add insult to injury the response was an Artificial Stupidity system boilerplate reply of as much use as a chocolate teapot even if I could have read it before I sussed out the passwords problem. And then they closed the ticket because I didn't respond to the email within 72 hours.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Quote: And then they closed the ticket because I didn't respond to the email within 72 hours
We get that all the time and it makes me rather cross.
Recently however, I've been given access to the system because we can get specific tickets assigned to us. For whatever reason they've given me full access to all tickets, so when they close one of my tickets now it gets magically reopened!
The absolute funniest part was one particular ![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) er who left some, shall we say, less than complimentary comments in the "Work notes" part of the ticket about me. Normally not visible to the caller, these are eminently visible to "IT Support" teams - i.e. me. He does still have his job but he's walking a fine wire these days and has had to take "culture" training
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