Gmail's April Fools' Joke Causes Many Users to Send Inappropriately Goofy Messages
'Mic Drop' may have cost one person a job
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Google's April Fools' Day joke went awry and may have cost someone a job.
Next to the "Reply" button in Gmail, the digital giant added a "Mic Drop" button, which let users reply to emails, archive the message and add a GIF of the Despicable Me cartoon's well-known minion character dropping a mic to the outgoing missive. The feature evidently went live at midnight ET.
"Email's great, but sometimes you just wanna hit the eject button," the Mountain View, Calif.-based
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