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April Fools Gmail led to the loss of employment by some service users
Not only work - on the part of users are having serious problems. And this is no joke
April 1 joke all. Like it or not, but to deal with April Fool's Day humor of varying quality have to this day for many. And well, if a joke was a success - a good laugh, and went in a good mood. But it also happens that the joke turns evil.
Gmail service today provided additional function only works the first of April - the button «Send +». If you click, the recipient of the letter except the administration sees SIFCO a minion who throws the microphone. Joke was named «Mic drop». Many users like this feature, but the same was the key cause of problems in a number of other users. Some even lost their jobs because of this Prank.
That's one of the problems that can be called "a terrible mistake".
WHAT A HARMLESS APRIL FOOL'S JOKE, WHAT COULD GO WRONG pic.twitter.com/Maw8a6VUSA- Andy Baio (@waxpancake) April 1, 2016
Here, an employee, provider of funeral services, accidentally sent a minion in a letter to a man who had lost a daughter.
Another user sent a resume to a prospective employer. Of course, it is also wrong button and sent the same minion, throwing the microphone. According to him, the response letter he no longer waits - neither positive nor negative answer.
Crap. Did you know that @gmail has a «send and drop the mic» button for emails to never hear responses? Yeah I just used it for a job post- Larry Barnes (@youthminister) April 1, 2016
On the Google forum next drawing victim writes about job loss. I have sent a minion to his boss, and he felt that this is an allusion to the insignificance of their comments. As a result, the writer lost his employer.
Of course, given the fact that today, April 1, it is possible to doubt some of the complaints. But we must remember that Gmail - 900 million users. Feature «Mic drop» has been active for 12 hours. So you can be sure - some users sent a complaint to the actual incident.
If you think Gmail "Mic Drop" stories of lost jobs / opportunities / etc can not be true, remember: there are 900m Gmail users. It was live 12hrs.- Charles Arthur (@charlesarthur) April 1, 2016
Google removed after a number of complaints function and apologized. "It seems that we have deceived ourselves this year. Due to a bug MicDrop feature brought more problems than laughter. We apologize. The function has been disabled. If you still see it, please restart your page Gmail ».
What else can I add? Nothing.
What do you think, was whether the right to life of this joke? Yes, it's ridiculous No, e-mail - this is serious Voted 2429 people. Abstain 511 people. Only registered users can participate in the survey. Come in, please.
Source: geektimes.ru/post/273750/
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