1st April 2016
Google killed its April Fools’ Day joke after it allegedly lost people their jobs (uk.businessinsider.com).
“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.”
Yep, and you can see it coming—even if Google presumably didn’t—with placement directly next to the default Reply button for ideal accidental pressage when mailing the boss or potential job or… well, giving some oppotune social media currency to say so. Perhaps with what is essentially a tool as well as… err, extension to their social media jocularity with which Google’s + turned into a - seemingly because they missed the bus or crashed into it with one of their driverless experimental cars, they should have kept the pranks to ad-revenue funded Easter eggs on their search engines front page.
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