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Working from home fails

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FenceFuckery · 20/03/2020 09:04

A lightheaded thread to hopefully cheer us all up a bit.

I took a mid-morning shower yesterday, and just as i got out, I had an incoming conf call. I had to refuse my camera as I was only wearing a towel.

Not as bad as a very senior person at another company we also deal with, who took his laptop into the toilet during a conf call, but forgot to turn his mike or camera off. It was quite graphic apparently....

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clunkyinthebackend · 20/03/2020 17:45

A fairly senior colleague of mine stopped a senior leaders briefing as her cat had pissed down her leg

superram · 20/03/2020 17:49

Work laptop died. Not a problem except the laptop gives me the maf/map code. Lovely it person sorted me out.

mbosnz · 20/03/2020 17:55

DH's colleagues got treated to a beautiful view of our cats arse. And then she sat down on his keyboard and settled in for a very thorough wash of said arse.

His boss's lunch was also in shot. First a vodka, then a whisky. . .

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AthelstaneTheUnready · 20/03/2020 18:06

yeah, I was talking to someone when the cat pissed on the floor.

They also like to join in conversations.

Today is not the first time I've said "just shut the fuck up", and then had to explain I'm talking to the cat.

"yeah right. The Cat", they say.

m00rfarm · 20/03/2020 18:09

We had a conference call with people in various countries and time zones. One person fell asleep and started snoring but we could not wake them up as there was no one else in the room with them ...

Freshprincess · 20/03/2020 18:14

DS decided to reboot the router whilst I was working.
I’ve realised that my dining room wallpaper is too busy and I hate it. I especially hate that my ex said this to me when we bought it.

Have put post it note over the laptop camera ‘oh no, isn’t it working? I’ll look at that,’

WobblyLondoner · 20/03/2020 18:27

Oh these are making me laugh, I've spent the last three days on Zoom. My sister is an academic and told a story about a colleague using their new lecture cast system (slides plus voice over), not realising there is also a webcam option which by default is on. Little image of him top right in his jimjams in bed ...

itwasalovelydreamwhileitlasted · 20/03/2020 18:31

@managedmis

First time using Teams for me too this afternoon and I also couldn't get the sound to work 🤣

itwasalovelydreamwhileitlasted · 20/03/2020 18:34

One of my cats can get a bit territorial and proceeded to hump my arm in the middle of a meeting - when I tried to throw him off he whined at me like an hormonal teenage boy and then fell asleep on the keyboard - several people were amazed/jealous though at his stamina 🤣🤣

managedmis · 20/03/2020 18:36

We need Microsoft for dummies, lovely dream

Or just a new job?!

itwasalovelydreamwhileitlasted · 20/03/2020 18:38

@managedmis
Either that or I will be able to add lip reading as a skill to my CV at the end of this!

Arrakis · 20/03/2020 18:45

We need Microsoft for dummies, lovely dream

For all I complained of being exhausted from work upthread, which I am, I’m also dreading the lack of anything constructive to do with my weekend. Might there be a market fo an IT Support At Home AMA?! Not on a Friday night, I’m not insane, but tomorrow maybe.

BelfastNonBlonde · 20/03/2020 18:45

On a video call this morning and the dog, who was up looking out the front window to the street, fell down the back of the sofa and got stuck. Queue howling and commotion before I could get over to rescue it much to colleagues amusement.

Boss has set up a daily morning team check in video call. Decided that to keep every in “good spirits” we would rotate responsibility for a daily “thought for the day”...
queue boss launching into a 20 minute lecture on the formation of Gibraltar because his brother is currently stuck there...

Sighhhh

Am hating work so much right now I actually hope I get the virus.

MrsMozartMkII · 20/03/2020 18:53

Back in the days when a cough heralded nothing more than a bad cold, I was laid up but still working (pesky deadlines) as was the lead on the other side. We took turns to squeak then mute to cough. An interesting couple of days.

I usually hear other people's dogs barking or a child asking for the potty / sweetie / tv show / when will mummy be home / what's for dinner. As they have to put up with my hounds barking if we have a delivery then it's all equal

Then again, I wfh as a regular thing so all the battyness is now just the norm

Dk20 · 20/03/2020 18:56

I had to leave the office in a rush last week and had to wfh since then.
All the technology problems I've had since are completely stressing me out.
I have to remote access my PC 15 mins before my start time to avoid the traffic and possibly not connecting, sometimes it cuts out for no reason and it could take up to an hour to re-connect.
When the laptop charger is plugged in, the laptop will randomly decide to restart itself, so I have to go through the login process again.
As I had to leave the office in a rush I forgot my headset for calls. I first had issues forwarding calls to my mobile, got that resolved after a couple of hours. Now I have an issue making calls, the conference call lines are busy in the mornings so I can only get through sometimes.
I ran out of credit during the middle of one call as the free phone dial in number wouldn't work.
And today to top it all off, the electric cut off in the house.
Also finding that some tasks can take twice as long as we aren't allowed to print anything when wfh (gdpr apparently)

All this while homeschooling ds (6) who likes to talk non stop.

This week has seemed to go on forever

iusedtohavechickens · 20/03/2020 19:07

My hubby has to apologise for the noise of a 8 week old screaming and me telling my 11 mth old not to hit out 12 mth old foster child in the face with a shoe! All the while the 12 mth old is crying because I've put them down to make baby's bottle. Think he has suddenly realised that my job isn't just sitting around cooing at the babies lol

AllNewThings · 20/03/2020 19:21

Ah, this is a wonderful tonic of a thread. I do hope that there are more threads like this over the coming weeks. It's all so very serious around here at the moment.

DH and I are both going to be working from home from next week, sharing fighting over the home office. We will be in the company of our 5 DC and the cat, so I expect to have one or two tales of my own to add to the thread before very long. kill me now

AllNewThings · 20/03/2020 19:24

Wowzer chickens! That's pretty hardcore! 😱

Royallyscrewed · 20/03/2020 19:50

Took a swig of my drink on a 4.30pm management video conference call.

My drink was a can of lager. (My first and only drink of this month so am not an alcoholic or anything, it’s just been a long hard old week)

BikeRunSki · 20/03/2020 20:09

I accidentally told my boss to “shut up and sit down” as I answered the phone whilst shutting the dc in the living room with a packet of biscuits.

lachy · 20/03/2020 20:09

DH and I are both classed as key workers so DD will continue going to nursery, but she has yelled down the stairs that she needs her bottom wiping during one or two Skype calls.

DrDreReturns · 20/03/2020 20:18

No big fails here. I had to turn the camera off on Teams once because it was lagging. Not sure if it was a connection issue at my end or not. My daughter tried to talk to me when I was in a call, she's never realised I can't talk when I'm on the phone to someone!
Kick some IT arse!! Nice

ADreamOfGood · 20/03/2020 21:18

DH's colleague had to Skype with his toddler on his lap, because said child wanted to see all of daddy's friends

rslsys · 20/03/2020 22:33

If your Internet speed was shite before the crisis hit, it has not been magically upgraded in the last couple of weeks.
If your kids are gaming/watching Netflix, don't call IT support and moan that Facetime is 'jerky' and the sound is 'choppy'. No matter how fast a laptop we give you - the situation will not improve.
You managed to wangle one day a week 'working from home' a year ago. Nothing has changed with the IT setup but suddenly system response has become 'unacceptable'.
IT support people are human too . . .

Northernsoullover · 20/03/2020 22:43

Not in work but online lecture. My friend somehow took control from the lecturer and caused chaos. Most of us (students) were still in our pjs!

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