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I'm the Google employee who was hired to work on April Fools' pranks for months.
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You could just send a follow email explaining that google did something stupid as a april fools prank? As someone who's unemployed and struggling to find a job, I really want to sympathize. But it seems like it would be really easy undo the damage here.
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Apr 1, 2016 15:18
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Wanamingo posted:More specifically, they had replaced the send and archive button with it. It's been known to bug out and attach the gif to the regular Send function. Specifically, if you press the gimmick button on a blank template, them back out, type an email, and attempt to send it the normal way.
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Apr 1, 2016 15:18
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Raygereio posted:You could just send a follow email explaining that google did something stupid as a april fools prank? As someone who's unemployed and struggling to find a job, I really want to sympathize. But it seems like it would really easy undo the damage here. Yeah, but then you can't play the victim for internet attention points
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Apr 1, 2016 15:20
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Raygereio posted:You could just send a follow email explaining that google did something stupid as a april fools prank? As someone who's unemployed and struggling to find a job, I really want to sympathize. But it seems like it would really easy undo the damage here. It blocks any response emails, so how will you ever know?
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Apr 1, 2016 15:21
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Measly Twerp posted:It blocks any response emails, so how will you ever know? According to that twitter, blocks with no way to unblock, at the moment anyway.
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Apr 1, 2016 15:25
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Measly Twerp posted:It blocks any response emails, so how will you ever know? Ok, but the guy obviously knows because he's posting about it. He can still send a follow-up email to the person with a link to one of the MANY articles about it and apologize. The bigger problem is that the job-seeker doesn't get any replies, so he'd have to have the hiring director send from a different email, or just create a new gmail account and have it sent there.
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Apr 1, 2016 15:28
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Measly Twerp posted:It blocks any response emails, so how will you ever know? It doesn't block them, it automatically archives them. You still get the followup emails but they don't appear in your normal inbox, which isn't a huge deal so long as you know to check.
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Apr 1, 2016 15:29
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Sounds like a lot of rationalizing for an idiotic implementation
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Apr 1, 2016 15:44
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Someone who spams 50 friends and family members with a prayer request deserves whatever she gets.
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Apr 1, 2016 16:08
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The worst (and most schadenfreude) was the one shown in the article of a funeral director sending the mic drop to a client.
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Apr 1, 2016 16:12
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Roro posted:The worst (and most schadenfreude) was the one shown in the article of a funeral director sending the mic drop to a client. You mean the funniest.
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Apr 1, 2016 16:15
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Snapchat A Titty posted:You mean the fakest.
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Apr 1, 2016 16:21
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Simply Simon posted:Balthasar, du Heide! Wikipedia posted:Ab dem 12. Jahrhundert wurde in der künstlerischen Darstellung einer der drei Könige zum Mohren mit dunkler Hautfarbe. Dabei wird meistens der jüngste König Caspar als Mohr dargestellt. Doch finden sich bereits in anderen frühen Quellen Melchior und mitunter auch Balthasar als die Vertreter Afrikas.  Possible Schadenfreude, or just  Otto Skorzeny, famous SS member and darling of Hitler, later became a hitman for the Mossad
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Apr 1, 2016 16:26
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An elephant decides It's Time To Put My Butt On Stuff https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLwS5xq3r68
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Apr 1, 2016 16:37
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Any man or woman who will type out they are "actually shaking" for anything short of their life being in danger is too much of a pansy to be in the workforce anyhow so eh, I think it worked out for the best.
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Apr 1, 2016 16:48
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What about Michael J Fox?
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Apr 1, 2016 16:57
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Trigger warning: cat cruelty https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6LFPzymG_w
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Apr 1, 2016 16:59
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I Am Crake posted:Any man or woman who will type out they are "actually shaking" for anything short of their life being in danger is too much of a pansy to be in the workforce anyhow so eh, I think it worked out for the best. For someone not having been able to get an interview in months, that's probably not far from the truth... e: VVVVVVV This is also the case, though. VVVVVVV TheRagamuffin has a new favorite as of 17:38 on Apr 1, 2016 |
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Apr 1, 2016 17:16
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first of all call the future employer to explain what happened second, none of this really even happened so
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Apr 1, 2016 17:33
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Palpek posted:second, none of this really even happened so I dunno what the hell you're on about, funeral homes make first contact with grieving potential clients via email all the time
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Apr 1, 2016 17:38
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GOTTA STAY FAI posted:I dunno what the hell you're on about, funeral homes make first contact with grieving potential clients via email all the time Maybe it means, like, "Your father has dropped the mic on life, come see us for your funerary needs."
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Apr 1, 2016 17:47
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Dude said that funeral home one was fake, he made it as an example of how this lovely prank could go wrong. https://twitter.com/waxpancake/status/715783278473687040
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Apr 1, 2016 17:56
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Yeah, the actual April Fools' here is people pranking Google with fake problems into removing their April Fools' joke. Pretty meta.
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Apr 1, 2016 18:00
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The real April Fool is whoever uses gmail for business purposes.
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Apr 1, 2016 18:10
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veedubfreak posted:The real April Fool is whoever uses gmail for business purposes. fo' real. I use yahoo.
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Apr 1, 2016 18:17
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veedubfreak posted:The real April Fool is whoever uses gmail for business purposes. I live in a world where I have to email people with aol email addresses. Gmail would be a step up. I can reasonably believe the resume one, but again, a phone call or follow up email to explain would have helped instead of complaining about it on the internet.
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Apr 1, 2016 18:19
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veedubfreak posted:The real April Fool is whoever uses gmail for business purposes. Google has Gmail for businesses and you get to use your own domain. I have no idea if this prank was on those as well. It would suck if it was since Google charges most businesses for hosting their email.
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Apr 1, 2016 18:24
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My business uses Gmail for our @companyname.com email and I haven't seen anything minion-related today, fortunately.
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Apr 1, 2016 18:38
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i wish i knew so little about the world that a bad april fools joke could upset me
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Apr 1, 2016 18:45
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fullroundaction posted:My business uses Gmail for our @companyname.com email and I haven't seen anything minion-related today, fortunately. 
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Apr 1, 2016 18:46
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Levitate posted:Are we sure this isn't some kind of social art project/commentary at this point I have family members that wont shut up about trump being a plant candidate to make hillary look good. They called him a manchurian candidate but i think that's about getting a candidate to destroy the country from the inside. Maybe they have a point after all . . . 
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Apr 1, 2016 18:56
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One of the state agencies we deal with on a regular basis uses standard gmail and that poo poo is always blacklisted on our spam firewall. Constantly have to go in and white list it.
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Apr 1, 2016 18:56
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Lotish posted:fo' real. I use yahoo. Hells yea. When companies gets a resume from 10inchsexgod69@yahoo, they can't wait to interview me. 
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Apr 1, 2016 19:10
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I Am Crake posted:Any man or woman who will type out they are "actually shaking" for anything short of their life being in danger is too much of a pansy to be in the workforce anyhow so eh, I think it worked out for the best. Hey hi I know it is normal to have to explain emotions to people on the internet so I would like to point out that it is possible to shake with rage or desire in addition to fear and possibly there are other emotions or "feelings" that could cause a similar physical reaction.
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Apr 1, 2016 19:38
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Apr 1, 2016 19:48
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veedubfreak posted:One of the state agencies we deal with on a regular basis uses standard gmail and that poo poo is always blacklisted on our spam firewall. Constantly have to go in and white list it. Basically the entire Colorado state government uses gmail for government except like some of the schools and prisons.
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Apr 1, 2016 19:53
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titties posted:Hey hi I know it is normal to have to explain emotions to people on the internet so I would like to point out that it is possible to shake with rage or desire in addition to fear and possibly there are other emotions or "feelings" that could cause a similar physical reaction. Calm your titties.
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Apr 1, 2016 20:51
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Atmus posted:Basically the entire Colorado state government uses gmail for government except like some of the schools and prisons. Heh, ya I was actually talking about CDPHE 
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Apr 1, 2016 21:01
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what kind of a loving moron wold be 'upset' over losing his job?!?!
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