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.

Comments

Don't use Gmail for your work.

[Anonymous Coward]

Seriously, free webmail is unprofessional.

Re:Good!

[BarbaraHudson]

Oh, I understood all right. Only a dummy would use that feature even once. Sounds to me more like a feature than a bug. The whole "minion" thing is way overdone , not to mention also stupid. Let the emos send them to each other, along with a bunch of stupid emojis.