In one scenario-which Ars' own Sam Machkovech was able to reproduce-if users hit the "send and mic drop" button before entering any recipients and then used the same draft to write an e-mail, even hitting the normal send button would result in the prank e-mail being sent. To make matters worse, the feature was buggy, too. Strange, none of these people seem to share the Gmail team's sense of humor. I just woke up to a very angry voicemail from her which is how I found out about this 'hilarious' prank." My boss took offence to the Mic Drop animation and assumed that I didn't reply to her because I thought her input was petty (hence the Mic Drop). There were corrections that needed to be made on my articles and I never received her replies. I inadvertently sent the e-mail using the 'Mic Drop' send button. "I sent my articles to my boss and never heard back from her. "I am a writer and had a deadline to meet," he wrote.
GOOGLE PRANK ME PROFESSIONAL
I'm going to go cry now."Īnother user, a professional writer, claimed to have lost his current job thanks to the prank. Words cannot describe how pissed off I am right now. "I clicked the wrong button and sent it with the mic drop.
"I just sent off an e-mail with my resume to the first person who wanted to interview me in months," he wrote. One user writing on the Google help forum claimed that it cost him a new job. Unfortunately, Google didn't turn off the feature soon enough. Yes, even if folks try to respond, you won't see it." Everyone will get your message, but that's the last you'll ever hear about it. "Simply reply to any e-mail using the new 'Send + Mic Drop' button. "Today, Gmail is making it easier to have the last word on any e-mail with Mic Drop," read the blog post announcing the feature. Many users typing with muscle memory, unaware that the functionality had been changed (or even those who just misclicked-the button does sit right next to the send button, after all) took to Twitter saying that they had accidentally sent the e-mail to bosses, clients, and others who wouldn't have found the GIF particularly amusing. The "send and mic drop" button replaced the often-used "send and archive" button, which lets users close a conversation and file the thread away. The "feature" was not opt-in, and it was not made distinct from Gmail's regular functions. The prank is mildly amusing, but it wasn't so much the prank itself as the execution that caused problems. The now-removed "Gmail Mic Drop" function allowed users to "send and mic drop" an e-mail, which automatically attached a GIF of a minion-yes, those weird yellow characters from Despicable Me-dropping a mic, before muting the conversation and archiving it. Google's April Fools' Day prank for Gmail backfired in spectacular style today after users claimed that it caused them to inadvertently offend friends and family-and in some cases led to lost jobs.
0 kommentar(er)
