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Microsoft Memo Bans April Fools' Day Pranks (theverge.com)
Everyone hates April Fools' Day, and Microsoft is taking a stand against its own corporate pranks. From a report: Microsoft's marketing chief Chris Capossela has warned all employees to not participate in the process of annoying hoaxes on Monday. In an internal memo, Capossela explains that "data tells us these stunts have limited positive impact and can actually result in unwanted news cycles." He encourages all teams inside Microsoft not to do any public-facing April Fools' Day stunts. "I appreciate that people may have devoted time and resources to these activities, but I believe we have more to lose than gain by attempting to be funny on this one day," says Capossela. That's probably a safe bet, as we've seen some April Fools' Day pranks backfire spectacularly in the past. Google was forced to apologize for adding Despicable Me minions into emails and muting threads a few years ago, causing email havoc for Gmail users. Microsoft has also participated in many April Fools' Day pranks over the years, including an MS-DOS mobile for Windows Phone and Google insults.
"Everyone hates April Fools' Day"
Nice projection there. I'll make sure to align my thinking patterns with yours in the future.
This memo sounds like an elaborate April Fool's Day prank to me!
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
Spot on. In today's victimhood culture any attempt at humor is extremely dangerous.
I recently went to a local stand up show and almost all performances were extremely bland (or about Trump), because joking about anything controversial is just too dangerous with SJW Stasi everywhere.