The reaction to the O2 meltdown was peak snowflake

One plumber moaned he’d lost work because he couldn’t find where he was booked to work without his satnav

Janet Street-Porter
Friday 07 December 2018 10:51 EST
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Thousands of angry people took to social media to complain about the network outages
Thousands of angry people took to social media to complain about the network outages (AFP/Getty Images)

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When the O2 phone network crashed on Thursday at 5am, up to 20 million customers were without access to emails, their smart phones turned into useless lumps of plastic.

The meltdown – the longest and largest internet blackout in the UK – was caused by a software failure at one of the O2 suppliers, Ericsson.

It must have been frustrating not to be able to make calls, order pizzas, pay bills and shop for presents, and (not surprisingly) thousands of angry people took to social media to complain.

I wonder what these frustrated O2 customers managed to do with their hands while they were walking along the street? How on earth did they manage a train journey without a phone to bellow “I’m on the train!” into?

Maybe they were forced to read a real book, or even a newspaper. A whole evening without being able to tweet how much you hate I’m a Celebrity... – what a hardship.

One plumber moaned he’d lost work because he couldn’t find where he was booked to work without his satnav.

As one wag put it – PEOPLE GET A GRIP! Have you not heard of those old things called a map and a compass?

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