Tell me your "mute" fails, and make me feel better

[Nidan2Sandan]

On a training course, interesting course but I'm tired and grotty today.

Just said something (nothing rude, just better not said out loud) thinking I was on mute........I wasnt.

Trainer laughed and said he heard that, and I did some quick talking to cover up my faux pas! But I feel sick with shame and embarrassment, and guilt. The trainer is lovely.

Make me feel better and tell me yours!

Oh come on, I'm dying to read these! (I'm doing a Zoom evening course and had to watch someone eating soup for the first 15 minutes recently).

I'm afraid I usually do the absolute opposite and deliver 10 minutes of beautiful, articulate and well planned context only for the kids to tell me that I was on mute for the whole thing.

They never tell me DURING it...only once I've finished...

I have a colleague who is utterly incapable of sticking to the point. During one of his ramblings I said "Oh do shut up!". Turns out I wasn't on mute. I had to pretend I was calling out to my husband!

Bad. Online court. Bit of drama. Court takes a break. Team phone each other for purposes of swearing, letting off steam and generally dispersing tension.

I now leave the room for calls of this sort.

I commented "what a load of shit" during a training session which was a load of shit. Luckily it was a big group so it wasn't obvious it was me 😀 also yesterday I was throwing DS out of the room before a meeting and people were grumbling about being able to hear a child. Whoops.

Many years ago I was doing parent-to-parent support on an autism charity helpline. I had spoken to a woman who was fairly desperate and I said I'd send various info to her. Then the weekend came and I thought I'd do it after but, when the phone rang on Sunday evening, my radar told me it was her. I pressed the button on the phone to let me listen to the message (this WAS a long time ago, all on landlines!) and yes, it was her. I said to myself "you'll just have to fucking wait" and her sweet, scared voice said "oh, okay then" and she hung up, I had pressed the wrong button and spoken to her! I called back and wittered some bollocks about having been arguing with my sister and I thought it was her ringing to give me a hard time. I don't know if I got away with it but I sent the info and learnt how to use the bloody phone

Thought I had gone on mute - I'd accidentally put the phone on hold, meaning our company's mawkish 'hold' music was blaring out into the conference call .

Not a mute fail but joined a call on a new software and by default it shared the video. I was just wearing a sports bra

Love thesw :)

Not a mute fail but a screen share fail. Hadn’t expected to be called to share during a meeting for thousands that had gone on forever. Shared my screen, then minimised the call but the window I had open was my half completed job application . Hoots of laughter from my colleagues who assumed I was engaging in banter (which I never had before). My boss called immediately after thr call and I let it ring for ages.

Told the cat to piss off in the middle of a board meeting.

Said to my husband “I’m still in this fucking meeting” line manager on Zoom says “er right I think we’ll wrap it up there.” Colleague called me after in stitches

Thought I hit mute on a work call to answer phone to 111 dentist who was calling me back. Told him I was pregnant so couldn’t have certain medication. Huge gasps from my team. I had only found out I was pregnant 3 hrs earlier
I hadn’t even told my partner

I was in such bad tooth pain I didn’t think. I now don’t talk about anything sensitive i the same room as my work computer unless i know it is totally switched off

Not me but manager joined a meeting with 'this better not take to long, I reeaaalllyy need a crap' no one said anything and let her think we hadn't heard, which was quite kind.

Just a camera club online meet where I said something along the lines of, "But that's crap! How can you pick that one?!" when the judge revealed which image won the competition. I also told dc 2 not to drink the washing up liquid because it's poisonous when someone was in the middle of presenting their work.

Shouted to my DH, ‘the oven needs to be preheated at 180 and it’ll take at least an hour to cook so you should have put it on before as I’m starving now’. Course tutor asked me to mute myself

Not me but I was in a meeting where someone’s mute button was broken. There were two of them saying awful things about the chair of the meeting. I’d have cried if I were her. I kept messaging them to mute themselves which they did and then would somehow get unmuted, it was awful.

Not a mute fail but a camera one (not mine thankfully) but in a large Zoom call a colleague took their device to the bathroom with them. Camera still on

I’m cringing so hard on everyone’s behalf here!!

Video fail for me today. I don’t really use zoom or teams etc so not sure on the etiquette. DP had to work from my house today at the kitchen table. I popped in to get something and as I left - assuming he wasn’t on video as he usually isn’t, and the screen wasn’t other people’s faces - I leaned in and kissed the back of his neck. Thought nothing of it until he came into my office in stitches as he had been on video, with his boss . Oops! Following meeting I heard him say “I haven’t put video on as my hair is a mess”.

Was trying to find something funny about the teacher in Charlie Brown who says "waa waa waa"to send as private chat to a colleague. I did....and the YouTube clip started playing during the meeting.

The colleague notorious for going on and on and on was talking.

Only the colleague I'd been messaging knew it was me so I got away with it.

Did a huge fart and my camera lit up and betrayed me

Was on a training course and shouted to my colleague in the same office "this is so boring".

Wasn't on mute.....

Mine was a teams message, so my boss was asking me to confirm something with her that was really obvious, I couldn't hide my face when I repeated myself 3 times until it sunk in with her, then I open my teams ti message my colleague to say, she is thick her, but to my horror I sent it to my boss and she replied who is
I had to blag myself out of it badly, told her I was on about someone else, she was ready to go to HR.
Sometimes I remember this late at night and can't go to sleep.

On maternity and invited to dial in to a very important call with the exec team and other senior leaders. Ten minutes late dialling in and I announce my arrival my declaring that “I’d forgotten about this fucking work meeting”