The button appeared beside the standard send button of Gmail and let users to shut down an e-mail thread by sending a gif of a Minion dropping a mic.
Nevertheless, a flurry of criticisms about the button appeared on the newsgroups of Google. The company apologised and has since removed the attribute, the BBC reported.
“Due to a bug, the MicDrop attribute accidentally caused more headaches than laughs. We are really sorry.”
A mic fall is a popular meme in which someone makes rebuttal or a conclusive statement before walking off and dropping a mike.
Google included that users who were able to view the attribute could change off it by restarting or reloading Gmail.
“Thanks to MicDrop I only lost my job,” claimed one user on Google’s product newsgroups.
I never heard back from her and sent my posts to my manager. I accidentally sent the e-mail using the MicDrop send button.”
Another inadvertently sent a mic fall e-mail to the HR section and then complained they had been having interviews for a job using a firm for three months.
And a third said they had sent an “important e-mail to 30 receivers”.
Users were advised of the button when it first appeared and what it’d do via a message in Gmail.
Also, users with the “untie send” capacity empowered would have really been able to retract a message within a specific period of time after sending it.