Unintentional consequences led Google to pull its April Fools’ prank, Gmail Mic Drop, a few hours after launching it on Friday. The joke let users claim the last word in an email thread by clicking on the “Send + Mic Drop” option. A GIF of a minion from the animated movie Despicable Me — would accompany the reply, and the sender would not receive any further responses to the thread. The “send and mic drop” button, which was located next to the “send” button, replaced the “send and archive” button.
I kind of envision the work atmosphere at Google as almost being too relaxed. Young college graduate geeks pranking,gaming,goofing off,just seems natural in Google's corporate setting. I have no doubt these people sat around and dreamed up some sort of prank like this. In all honesty I think this just proves Google needs top leaders to instill more professionalism into its employee's.
I have to say in my observations this lax work environment most likely affects products too. There is a fine line between a relaxed work environment and goofing off.
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Posted by: Richard Adhikari April 1, 2016 03:00 PMUnintentional consequences led Google to pull its April Fools’ prank, Gmail Mic Drop, a few hours after launching it on Friday. The joke let users claim the last word in an email thread by clicking on the “Send + Mic Drop” option. A GIF of a minion from the animated movie Despicable Me — would accompany the reply, and the sender would not receive any further responses to the thread. The “send and mic drop” button, which was located next to the “send” button, replaced the “send and archive” button.
I have to say in my observations this lax work environment most likely affects products too. There is a fine line between a relaxed work environment and goofing off.