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!

@Nc123

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

I have a friend from HR that did that in a recorded interview, followed with a 😱 face when she realised. Not only was it bad at the time but she also knew at least 3 others would be watch it over the next couple of days 🤣

Not a mute fail, but I was bitching chatting during a mundane training session in chat when the person I was chatting with was asked to screenshare and she shared our chat to all 🤦🏻‍♀️😳 To make matter worse the training was also recorded for others to watch/pause and have a good read. We learned that day to always share just the app window not the desktop!!!

On a work teams call, public sector and dealing with vulnerable people and their families.

Massive meeting with a persons family member there representing the vulnerable person. Family member said something which lead me to believe that she was possibly a solicitor.

Started googling her to see if I could work out if she was and who she might work for, forgetting I was sharing my screen with the meeting.

I now only ever share the window and not the whole screen.

Teams meeting and everyone muted and closed camera. I needed a wee, so put iPad down on sofa. Came back to the cat in my place watching the pretty pictures but he’d managed to stand on the screen and unblock the camera so everyone got a big black cat’s face staring at them.

On a video court hearing a few weeks ago, the magistrates rose to have a think about something. Court clerk was just sitting in there, representatives and parties still all dialled into the hearing. Court usher comes in and goes "alright Sandra, you look like shit" "Yeah Mike, I feel like shit, been on the toilet all night" "bloody hell Sandra...etc etc". They then start chatting about the date Sandra has with her new bloke at the weekend. All the observers are sitting watching in silence until one of the barristers says "umm, hellooo? I'm terribly sorry but I think the microphones are still on". There's a scramble about and the sound goes off. Unfortunately it then couldn't be switched back on again for the rest of the hearing and we had to adjourn for technical reasons. I'd love to know how Sandra's date went.

Oh, thank you everyone! You have all made me feel so much better!!

Two from me both in the last 3 weeks:

I was called urgently on to a client call as the technical advisor due to system issues they had experienced (I'm an IT consultant). Just before the client call I decided to change from a scruffy to a black top. Took my top off and put new top on.... whilst on camera. Had to apologise. The guy was a complete gentleman about it! I was mortified.

Was on a call with two other guys (one was handing over to the other) and we were waiting for a 4th person. The one handing over explained who we were meeting calling the 4th person "a one woman work generation scheme" unfortunately she turned up at the start of the explanation and heard him!

Mine was during homeschooling I’m ashamed to say….it was catch up time in the afternoon, and one child was eating a snack and going up really close to the camera to watch himself chewing with his mouth wide open. I muttered “oh my goodness, I can see the contents of his mouth” to my son, but wasn’t muted 😭😭😭 the teacher did an embarrassed laugh and I don’t think I sleep properly to this day because of it

Everyone on the session (about 50 people) on mute, presenter doing their introductory remarks over shared power point slide, when a late comer joins.

Not on mute, but camera off.

Joins the session, saying loudly, presumably to someone else with them, 'I've just got to log in for this Zoom training. Give me a minute, then we can pop to Costa. They can't tell if you're there or not - I did it last week too'.

Pause.

'F*! You all heard that, didn't you? I suppose I'll have to stay now, won't I?'

And she did, took full part in the session and styled it out.

All credit to her.

I just know I'm going to lay there in bed tonight and not be able to stop thinking about it

I might have farted loudly when I thought my microphone was muted….

"Frank, why are you licking the keyboard?". On a call with about 30 people from different countries, most of whom I didn't know.

It was cameras off, so nobody knew that one of the cats had wandered into the room and was trying to see if I'd left any of my lunch on the keyboard. Fortunately I doubt anyone knew it was me as the screen was taken up a presentation so unlikely they could see who was talking. I'd be interested to know what they thought was happening in my house though!

Teaching online during lockdown - my 4 yr old yells 'mum I've done a poo can you wipe my bum?' My yr 8s thought it was hilarious.

I joined a session that had just started. I was wearing a dressing gown, hair and face mask as I'd just had a bath. Realising that the video was on, I leant down to turn it off on my laptop, the gown opened & I flashed half a boob

*camera, not video

It wasn’t a mute one but I’d been talking to a woman from another service and she was a right PITA. We had a call over Skype (yes that still exists and our council were in the dark ages at the beginning of the pandemic!). She came on camera really close to the screen and she had the most enormous bright red hair that filled the screen. She looked exactly like Professor Trelawny from Harry Potter. I did actually do a little ‘ahhh’ sound and then she did to me that I didn’t look how she pictured 😂.

We also have a colleague that talks and talks and talks and the rest of us are struggling to hide our facial expressions. The other people notice and start laughing but the talker is so self absorbed that she hasn’t even noticed.

My colleague joined a call half naked and dropped down to the floor to hide himself. You could just see his hand reaching up trying to turn the camera off.

Every time I think about it I start to laugh

My partner bought doughnuts and whilst I was in the bedroom on a call myself he text me to say he was going to put his … appendage … through the doughnut. I walk back in the living room (home office) and declare “I’m not eating my doughnut off of your penis” whilst he was training a junior member of staff on teams. I die inside when I think about it.

@Nc123

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

@MyMiserableEmployment I can't stop laughing

I had not used remote meetings very much before being sent to wfh last year. I used to get messages from colleagues telling me to stop rolling my eyes or pulling ‘wtf’ faces as everyone could see what I was thinking.

This summer I was in a large conference, so cameras and mic off unless speaking. I was running late and not due to speak so I didn’t get dressed. Suddenly I heard someone said oh Faevern knows the answer to that. So unmuted and camera on I answered the question exposed in a shoe string nightdress, no bra, in front of over 200 people.

Worst was a colleague having a proper argument with her DH while waiting for the meeting to start. Camera was off but she was unmuted. When the meeting started she came on as if nothing had happened to see 8 😳 faces.

Not a mute fail as such. I was screen sharing in a organisation wide meeting that was being recorded. I couldn't see me on the screen so assumed I was hidden. No. Apparently not. I didn't do anything embarrassing but MAN do I fidget! Watching the recording back I'm so distracting!! And of course this is now on our intranet for everyone to enjoy

I've also shared my chat with a colleague/best friend. Not inappropriate but definitely not anything work based 😂

My manager saying bye to her daughter while talking to me and saying love you to me instead! Obvs I said aww love you too back. It broke any tension and we all have a different point of view from home.

Teams meeting. Camera off, thought I was on mute so my whole team heard me shouting “wee wee!” To my dog and then congratulating her on also having a poo. I did explain!

Large fart, on a call and today, so willl be just my luck if it is chosen for quality checking