It’s sad that a company can’t accept negative PR and show them that they do indeed support their employee’s actions. I think it has more to do with how all organizations want to feel professional instead of nerdy and fun.
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#12This sounds like a such an awesome experience for the people who pulled it off.
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#13If this happened in 2021 someone would be in prison or fired at best. That said, this is a hilarious story and reminds me of the things people used to do in the early days of the internet in terms of trolling and such. Unfortunately, after groups like the GN*A and others successfully trolled the world several times, nation states figured it out and started trolling to actually control the narrative of the internet! A…
> If this happened in 2021 someone would be in prison or fired at best.
If that's the best case scenario, what's the worst? Firing squad?
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#14If this happened in 2021 someone would be in prison or fired at best. That said, this is a hilarious story and reminds me of the things people used to do in the early days of the internet in terms of trolling and such. Unfortunately, after groups like the GN*A and others successfully trolled the world several times, nation states figured it out and started trolling to actually control the narrative of the internet! A…
True that. The reason for this is simple. Stock price. Investors would wine around, price could move.
It is all about money today: serious business.
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#15April Fools Day used to be edgy and daring, as per the article. Secrecy and vast clandestine effort was needed.
But now it is too easy and there isn't the same cost. Personally I have decided not to bother with social media on April Fools Day because you know time is going to be wasted by sub par corporate efforts.
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#16I feel for the poor staff in those retail stores trying to work out what this product was that wasn't scanning while you've got a customer at your register getting more annoyed by the second.
People who do pranks like this don’t care how it negatively impacts on other people.
Also think about all the additional work the PR people were forced to do to clean up.
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#17It’s sad that a company can’t accept negative PR and show them that they do indeed support their employee’s actions. I think it has more to do with how all organizations want to feel professional instead of nerdy and fun.
I think the issue is that the joke made Microsoft look bad (like they copied another company's product). Google has a big April Fool's collection, but you can imagine their PR department probably would not let anyone's joke reference that the product would be sunset in 18 months.
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#18The talking head in the video was right - it’s probably a collector’s item.
Now it just needs an NFT!
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#19If this happened in 2021 someone would be in prison or fired at best. That said, this is a hilarious story and reminds me of the things people used to do in the early days of the internet in terms of trolling and such. Unfortunately, after groups like the GN*A and others successfully trolled the world several times, nation states figured it out and started trolling to actually control the narrative of the internet! A…
Prison? That seems over the top.
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#20It’s sad that a company can’t accept negative PR and show them that they do indeed support their employee’s actions. I think it has more to do with how all organizations want to feel professional instead of nerdy and fun.
It's hard for any company to support the actions of their employees once they go lone wolf and depart from the approvals and procedures the company has put in place. Even Bill wasn't happy with this and more importantly when it comes to April Fool's jokes, he wasn't laughing.