On 2024-02-22, a significant oversight at Google led to the wrongful termination of the entire Gmail team instead of the intended Gemini team. The error occurred when a Senior Vice President of Product at Google, who earns $28.8 million annually, misinterpreted an email from CEO Sundar Pichai. Sundar had asked for the Gemini team to be fired, but due to poor service at the executive's 7-bedroom, 11-bathroom cabin in Park City, he mistakenly believed he was instructed to fire the Gmail team. This incident, reportedly caused by the executive being drunk, has caused confusion and concern among Google staff and users, with some employees revealing they were abruptly cut off from company resources like Hangouts and Google Drive. The blunder has also prompted reactions on social media, with reports of users receiving notifications about Gmail shutting down.
The Senior Vice President at Google - who makes $28.8 M a year - “accidentally” fired the entire gmail team by mistaking the word Gemini with Gmail….
JUST IN: DRUNK GOOGLE MANAGER ACCIDENTALLY FIRES GMAIL TEAM INSTEAD OF GEMENI TEAM LEADING TO THOUSANDS OF USERS GETTING NOTICES ABOUT GMAIL SHUTTING DOWN
Google SVP of Product accidentally misread @sundarpichai (CEO of Google) email leading him to fire the Gmail team instead of the Gemini team. What a mess! https://t.co/SuX5vM9Psx
I'm the SVP of Product at Google ($28.8M TC). Last night, Sundar asked me to "fire the entire Gemini team." I misread his message (insanely bad service at my 7br 11bath cabin in Park City) and I accidentally fired the entire Gmail team. Gmail...Gemini. Look at that… https://t.co/CBCWAhoNCT
Sad to share that I was laid off from Google today. I was in charge of making the algorithms for Gemini as woke as possible. After complaints on Twitter surfaced today, I suddenly lost access to Hangouts and Google Drive, and my manager (he/him), texted me to let me know that i…
Google fired me today. I was responsible for fine-tuning Gemini on the black or chinese posts