In 2013, I did something similar when worked in the support of a telecom operator and 70% of our network collapsed... but it was not exactly a local chat, but a chat of the whole company with the CEO, CIO and CTO inside. As a result, I was rewarded with money, cuz (next is an approximate CTO quote at the award ceremony):

When I saw that a support-engineer who has been working in our company for 2 years wrote something to the corporate chat for the first time.. and that something was a naked hairy ass. I immediately realized that we had to act immediately!