Friday, April 1, 2016

The unfortunate joke with a minion that went wrong for Google – BBC World

Minions Image copyright Getty
Image caption many users did not sit well that popular minions appear in your emails e.

It was one of the typical jokes that are made on April 1 in the Anglo-Saxon countries, where this date is the day celebrated of the Innocents. But Google he came out backfired.

The electronics giant included in your mail service Gmail a submit button that made the body of the emails appeared a funny animation of a minion, the popular and sympathetic characters animation.

But to do that in an email seriously appears in the end a minion dropping a microphone, it seems it was not a good idea.

many users complained to have had problems in their jobs.

Image copyright Gmail
Image caption Next to normal shipping option, Gmail included another that caused problems for users.

Before the anger caused Google decided to remove the submit button and apologized .

“It seems that we spend kidding ourselves, “the uS company said in a statement.

” Involuntarily has caused more headaches than smiles. Sorry, “he said.

Google had not enabled the joker in the Gmail accounts of companies

button, but had serious for some particular consequences. “Thanks to ‘MicDrop’ (as called animation), just lost my job,” lamented one user in a forum Google products.

“I am a journalist and had to meet a deadline. he sent my articles and got no response. involuntarily I sent the email using the ‘MicDrop’ button,” he added .

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Image caption Google removed the option and apologized to those who might have created problems.

Another regretted that he had been having interviews for a job with a company for three months and I accidentally sent the email with the animation department of human resources .

And another said he had sent an “important email 30 addresses” with animation.

Google had informed users about the existence of the submit button joke next to normal through a message in Gmail, but apparently not all read it.

the company originally announced the creation of Gmail on April 1, 2004, which in principle was also considered as a typical joke of the day.

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