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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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MrsBobDylan · 20/03/2020 23:30

DH in online meeting, me doing make up in the same room, when we heard knocking at the bedroom door and a loud whisper: "Come out Mummy. Come out!" The door pushed open to reveal DS 2&3 lying on top of each other, their little heads stacked like a Totum pole!

It was so unexpectedly funny dh had to mute the meeting so we could have a laugh.

managedmis · 21/03/2020 01:06

In other news, 3 year old DD pissed on the floor on purpose today. She looked me in the eye, pulled her pants down and pissed everywhere.

Then later on she threw a cracker that was buttered with peanut butter on the floor and stamped on it.

This was just a couple of the highlights from today. Thank god its weekend

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FenceFuckery · 21/03/2020 03:58

Haha @Royallyscrewed - same. Except mine was a 1-1 with my boss at 4pm, I was still in sweaty gym clothes that I had been far too busy to shower and change from, and mine was a gin & tonic. He laughed at me as he knew how shit my day had been.

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PirateWeasel · 21/03/2020 04:05

These stories are brilliant! Have all this to look forward to on Monday when I have to start working from home while single handedly wrangling an 18-month old. Argh!

loubieloo4 · 21/03/2020 04:18

Dh was on a conference call early morning yesterday and his colleagues dd passed her a huge poo and said "I did it in the potty but you didn't see" 😂😂😂

Dk20 · 21/03/2020 06:01

@rslsys
I did post about technology fails earlier in the post but would like to add I am not blaming/mad at IT for any of them.

I have submitted an IT ticket on Wednesday morning for the phone issue - I should be able to connect the phone to the laptop via bluetooth so I can make calls. In the meantime I am paying for the cost of the calls myself, including international calls.

And the issue with our remote access is that we have never had this many people trying to remotely access the system at the same time before, this is causing the issues and IT are currently upgrading before the last set of people move to wfh.

Dk20 · 21/03/2020 06:01

@loubieloo4 🤣🤣🤣

Dk20 · 21/03/2020 06:06

@BelfastNonBlonde we have to have the team calls twice daily Hmm it's awful as we currently have half wfh and half in the office. Every day those that are still in the office are sounding more and more fed up.

SimonJT · 21/03/2020 06:11

I have a shattaf on my toilet, sat at my desk in my bedroom in a conference with 7 colleagues yesterday afternoon. Son was playing with lego in the living room, so minimal noise from him. From my en-suite my boyfriend shouts at full volume “how the fuck do I wash my arse with this thing, do I rub my arse on a towel or drip dry”. Colleagues were all very British about it and carried on like nothing had happened.

Mummyoflittledragon · 21/03/2020 06:25

These stories are sooo funny. All very calm in our household. Dh is SI with dd and me as I have been ill with possible coronavirus. We have an 11 yo so no chance she’s going to interrupt calls unless I completely run out of energy and need help to get to the back to the sofa etc, which I have over the past week.

Marmelised · 21/03/2020 06:41

Years ago when I first wfh and my children were little they would come to me on conference calls with post it notes saying things like ‘can I have a biscuit?’

More recently I was on a non work committee zoom call last night and my husband took great pleasure in appearing in the corner of my screen, tea towel draped over arm in full wine waiter mode, to deliver a glass of wine for me. Very funny and very welcome after a long day.

SnugglySnerd · 21/03/2020 06:57

Dh was trying to have his 1 to 1 appraisal via Skype the other day whilst both our dcs and his boss's kept interrupting. They are all toddlers. He has now suggested they have more flexible hours and do some work in the evenings!

rslsys · 21/03/2020 08:06

@Dk20
Wasn't getting at you! Just generally having a rant Smile
I could have added that if a user is in a poor mobile reception area, the upgrade from a company provided iPhone 9 to an iPhone 11 won't improve the situation either.

TheMemoryLingers · 21/03/2020 08:13

This was last year - tried to ignore persistent doorbell ringing but eventually had to answer it - it was a man saying he'd have to turn our electricity off for 20 minutes to fix a fault. Total WFH fail as of course, no electric, no broadband Sad.

JWrecks · 22/03/2020 20:07

@loubieloo4 oh my! I thought DH's fart was brilliant but holy... shit!

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FenceFuckery · 23/03/2020 07:46

My work are finding it hilarious to have weekly competitions for our WFH set ups

I’m not sure I’ll cope....

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nicky2512 · 23/03/2020 08:07

I called a benefit helpline the other day as unsure whether dh is going to be paid or not and I hadn’t a clue what we were meant to do or what we are entitled to. Obviously I’m very worried and stressed about it and it really cheered me up when her dog kept going berserk barking. Something was obviously really winding him up. She was embarrassed but it actually made me feel a lot better!

OneEpisode · 23/03/2020 10:46

Hi Nicky hope you get the right answer soon. It does remind you of our common humanity doesn’t it, without all the branding of the usual workplace and with random “noises off stage”.

HoldMyLobster · 23/03/2020 13:15

Even before this I work with a lot of people who WFH so we've had lots of mishaps already.

A couple of weeks ago someone was about to do a presentation to about 30 people on the call, but she had to stop because the builders turned up to deliver some materials.

I had one call where I was trying to answer questions while chasing my dog down the drive.

Since CV it's got a bit more crazy, and everyone is being understanding. I have been introduced to everyone's dogs, cats and toddlers. I've done calls with people in fancy dress for St Patrick's Day. I've done video calls with people who are working in their bedrooms, sitting rooms - one was lazing back in the most comfy looking Lazyboy chair I've ever seen.

I actually think in a way it's healthy that management are having to understand that those with families can't just pretend they don't have families any more. We're learning to appreciate people doing their best in difficult circumstances.

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