googlesignSeveral Google services from Hangouts to Gmail Chat went down Monday morning, causing some stress — as well as better productivity — for those that rely on the tools to communicate.

The Google Apps Status Dashboard shows “service disruption” for Hangouts, Google Spreadsheets and Google Talk, all of which have been down for the past hour or so.

The outage is affecting people in interesting ways and seems to be increasing the amount work being done on Monday for some:

For others, Google’s hiccup is actually making life difficult at the office:

People are also resorting to face-to-face conversation:

Gmail, which went down for several minutes in January, appears to be working just fine.

For people that absolutely need a way to chat online, there’s always the legendary — at least for my fellow 20-somethings — AOL Instant Messenger and its classic sound effects.

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