Gmail's Mic Drop April Fool Backfires Horribly Costing People Their Jobs (telegraph.co.uk)

Posted by msmash on Friday April 1, 2016 @01:00AM from the prank-gone-wrong dept.

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.

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Good! by Lumpy · 2016-04-01 01:02 · Score: 5, Interesting

this is how we weed out the dumb people at the office.

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1. Re:Good! by unrtst · 2016-04-01 03:32 · Score: 5, Interesting
  
  Ah, it's all in binary now.
  Unless you have mod points and mod someone. Sadly, it then displays in normal base 10 after the mod.