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Gmail's Mic Drop April Fool Backfires Horribly Costing People Their Jobs (telegraph.co.uk)
An anonymous reader quotes a report on The Telegraph: Google is facing a fierce backlash after introducing a new tool for April Fools' Day that has cost some people potential jobs. The new Gmail Mic Drop button, which sits next to the normal send button, ends an email thread forever by muting all future replies to the sender, and firing off a gif of a minion 'mic dropping' at the same time. After an immediate backlash the feature was taken down early on Friday morning. Some people using it had failed to see the funny side, saying that by accidentally pressing the button instead of simply sending the email, they have appeared rude or unprofessional, in some cases costing them jobs.
Ah, it's all in binary now. Great, we really needed that change, not that UTF-8 nonsense.
I don't need Google's help; I never get a second interview in any case, because I ask the hard questions!
Are you interviewing applicants just to make yourself look important?
Are you seriously planning to hire anyone?
What exactly is it that you think you do here?
You mean UTF-1000
I liked the score better when it was in hex.
The Moore-Murphy Law: The number of things that will go wrong will double every 2 years.
Then comes google and android. Menu items and user interface paradigms and rules are changed at the whim. One day it is the "gear", suddenly it is gone and there is a the three lines, suddenly it is nine dots in a matrix, then dot dot dot... Some thing that appears to be some decoration in the phone app is the "new" interface for a well known functionality used to be located somewhere else.
Ages ago I watched a young boy play Super Mario Brothers. He ran along some path, stopped at some seemingly random location, banged his head on the brick 8 times, a gold bar fell out. Pocketed the points and ran along. I asked him, "how did you know there is a gold bar on that brick?". He said, "Well, you keep banging your head on every brick in the wall to see if there is something?". "You banged your head on EVERY brick eight times on this tunnel?", He goes, "nah, I banged some 30 or 40 times, this brick needs only 8 hits".
I wonder if that boy grew up, got a job designing user interface for Android apps. They seem to think, after every release the user should try every gesture on every pixel to re-learn how to use this app.
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
Seriously, free webmail is unprofessional.
Good luck explaining that to an entire generation who thinks that running a business online consists of creating a Facebook page and signing up for Gmail.
In other news, stupid people continue to blame others for their inability to perform simple tasks (like clicking a blue button that's been in the same place literally forever, instead of an orange, animated one) without fucking things up.
Was that you?
Sorry. I would hit send, shut my laptop and go home.
After supper I open my laptop and Outlook would sync my outbox.....
It may seem trivial, but when I get 00's of resumes for a position, honestly the first cull is going to be the obvious misfits and barring really eye-grabbing qualifications, trivialities such as misspellings (or mic-drop emails) for that very reason.
00's? You just culled yourself.
Have you read my blog lately?