Due to a bug, the Mic Drop feature inadvertently caused more headaches than laughs. “Well, it looks like we pranked ourselves this year. apologized for the fiasco and turned off the feature. My boss took offense 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 email using the ‘Mic Drop’ send button,” he wrote. “I sent my articles to my boss and never heard back from her. I can’t afford for you clowns to mess around with my business.”Īn incensed Allan Pashby, a writer, said Mic Drop cost him his job. One user, Scotty Martin, wrote on Gmail’s help forum: “Seriously Google? You mess with peoples’ email like this. “Email’s great, but sometimes you just wanna hit the eject button,” Google wrote in its official blog announcing the gimmick.Ī mic drop is a popular meme in which someone makes a final statement before dropping a microphone and traipsing off.īut livid users cried fool after unintentionally attaching minions dropping a mic during important business communications. The company added a “mic drop” button in its email service that allowed users to fire off a GIF of a Minion - a character from the animated film “Despicable Me” - that would drop a microphone and mute responses to the user’s email. The tech giant ended up with egg on its face after facing a backlash from folks who saw nothing funny with its Gmail tomfoolery – with some claiming it actually cost them their jobs. On April Fools’ Day, the joke was on Google.
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