Posted on 04/01/2016 7:40:13 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Google has abruptly killed off one of its April Fools' Day "jokes" after it caused outrage online, with multiple people claiming that it lost them their jobs.
The premise of the joke was simple. In Gmail, next to the standard "Reply" button, Google added a "Mic drop" button. Using it would reply to the email, archive it and also add a GIF of a "Despicable Me" minion dropping a mic.
"Email's great, but sometimes you just wanna hit the eject button," Google wrote in a tongue-and-cheek blog post explaining its purpose. "Like those heated threads at work, when everyone's wrong except you (obviously). Or those times when someone's seeking group approval, but your opinion is the only one that matters (amirite?). Or maybe you just nailed it, and there's nothing more to say (bam)."
But the joke backfired fast.
Its placement directly next to the default Reply button replacing the "Send and archive" button meant it was easy to click by accident, especially if a user didn't understand what it was. Google's product forums are full of furious users claiming they pressed the button by accident, often on important professional emails.
Here's how the mic-drop GIF can look in a wildly inappropriate email:
(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
Reply to all is a huge pet peeve of mine. I do not understand how thinking people ever think it is appropriate for EVERYTHING.
Kudos to you. I always like to tweak the Gamecocks, and you didn’t take the bait! I think pretty much all universities are nuts these days.
I wouldn’t want to work for a company who didn’t like Minions anyway.
Trump was patching things up nicely with the RNC until he accidentally sent this to Rinsed.
That’s a given with any email that’s unencrypted...and probably the encrypted stuff too as the encryption itself is a red flag inviting snooping by third parties.
If you want something confidential, putting it in email isn’t the way to go regardless of who is handling your email servers.
Is this why we have April Fools’ Day?
In the Middle Ages, New Year’s Day was celebrated on 25 March in most European towns. Some writers suggest that April Fools’ originated because those who celebrated on 1 January made fun of those who celebrated on other dates
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Fools%27_Day
The Edict of Roussillon was a 1564 edict decreeing that the year would begin on January 1 in France.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edict_of_Roussillon
Hillary would have been way better off using Gmail instead of whatever Microsoft abortion Bryan Pagliano set up for her.
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