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Comment by jetcata | Hacker News Reader

I sent an accidental mic drop email as a response to an important conversation I was having regarding my career. Thanks a lot google.

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Send a follow-up email with a brief explanation and a link to this article. If your employer/benefactor/whatever still insists on feeling slighted then you may want to reconsider if you want business relationship with them.

Impressions can go a long ways. What if you were emailing you exwife's lawyer or judge? Potential new customer that may save your business? Email is a critical communication tool of the modern day, it was ill conceived and clearly not thought out on Google's behalf.

I'm really angry that they could have seen this as anything but a dangerous idea. Strange sense of humour they have. I guess when you work at Google you don't need to worry so much about job hunting or career stuff. They are really out of touch.

And, what, you had to send a short explanation and then both sides moved on?

There are plenty of news articles on it now. Sending one of those and an apology should solve almost any problems.

Reply to a previous message in the chain?

Maybe we can use this comment as a place to give our best guesses for to the percentage of liars on the internet.

How many of the people claiming to have clicked a button few minutes / hours after it was out and having spectacular irreversible consequences to their lives is just a phony?

I would say between 40% and 90%, but don't know better than that.

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