Gmail Mic Drop: Google April Fools' Day joke cost people their jobs!

Every year, Google comes up with interesting and innovative jokes for April Fools’ Day, but this year it has gone horribly wrong with the users. After an immediate backlash, the feature was taken down early morning.

The prank involves a new Gmail Mic Drop button, which is placed next to the normal send button, ends an email thread forever by muting all future replies to the sender, and firing off a gif of a minion “mic dropping” at the same time.  A report by Android Authority points out that it is because of it’s placement where a regularly used button usually lives, many Gmail users didn’t pay close enough attention and fired off emails using Mic Drop by accident. Hilarity ensued as planned, but some unlucky Gmailers sent Mic Drop emails to very inappropriate people. (Also Read:  Google, Samsung and others: Tech companies turn into pranksters on April Fools’ Day )

 Some were sent to prayer groups, potential employers or even their bosses. Several users were desperately trying ways to undo or reverse a Mic Drop email and many of them even made way to Gmail product forums to vent out frustration. According to the report, potential interviews were missed out on, accusations of unprofessional behavior were made and in at least a couple of instances, jobs were lost!