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

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Nidan2Sandan · 04/11/2021 14:05

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!

OP posts:
riceuten · 06/11/2021 15:29

@Nc123

Did a huge fart and my camera lit up and betrayed me
I did this recently - the guff was so loud, the software thought I was speaking and asked me if I wanted to unmute !
Amdone123 · 06/11/2021 16:08

@Lorddenning1 - so funny !
Yes the last sentence got me 👏

simiisme · 06/11/2021 17:46

These are brilliant!
During Teams meetings, my friends at work are on WhatsApp with me for all the bitching and silliness, but we use our phones - no chance of our conversations popping up on our computer screens Wink

Yummiliscious · 07/11/2021 08:41

Teams meeting with boss and colleagues. I’m pretending to be concentrating in the meeting and ignoring my screaming kids in the background. I’m nailing this! My hand accidentally unmutes the microphone…everyone can now hear screaming kids, my video screen is lighting up, while I’m still sitting in pretend serenity…meeting suddenly pauses and boss asks for microphone to be muted me…

amazeandastonish · 07/11/2021 10:08

@KimmyKimdoo

I've been that deaf student

Cherrysoup · 07/11/2021 13:48

My head of department Whatsapped me to tell me I had unmuted, waiting for a meeting to start. I was chatting away to the dog, who was on my knee. My head then asked to see who was a very good boy. Mortified.

Samiamnot · 12/12/2021 09:06

I was teaching online at the start of this year. My ta was doing the end of the day story as my dd had been sent home so I had my camera off and was doing some boring paperwork. Thought I'd finished and found another name I needed to do and sighed 'ahhh, Imran, Imran, Imran' in quite a frustrated out breath. My ta laughed and said 'miss, is everything OK?' I pretended I didn't hear and we've never talked about it.

Raspberry12 · 09/02/2022 01:54

I joined a meeting, then my toddler said he needs the toilet so I popped my phone in my pocket and sat him on the loo. Continued with listening in to the meeting with the camera off and my toddler tried to wriggle his way of the loo before using it so I shouted ‘just push your poo out’ very loudly! Then he pushed and leapt off the loo to run away mid-poo and I shouted ‘hey, now there’s poo everywhere’.
Not on mute the whole time!!! Blush

CheesePlantMurderer · 09/02/2022 02:04

I ran a training day for 200 people over Teams in the summer. Several speakers, NONE of whom took up my offer of any kind of trial run.
It was very hit and miss, but clearly down to the speakers. However at one stage I almost lost it when that particular speaker didn't even press Slide Show but just scrolled down in PowerPoint and I said to myself "FFS she's not even playing the fucking slide show" to hear "Oh I'm sorry cheeseplantmurderer, I should have taken you up on the offer of a trial run, shouldn't I?"
MORTO!! She did laugh but is lovely and I felt soooo bad!

Joystir59 · 09/02/2022 03:14

@OhWhatFuckeryIsThisNow

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.
Love this
Lastbustowhitehawk · 09/02/2022 05:45

A colleague unmuted when someone else was speaking on a Teams and said "ohhhh hello daaaaarling" in a baby voice - later on he sheepishly turned on his camera to introduce his cat 😂

KatherineJaneway · 09/02/2022 06:36

My cat was playing up, thought I was on mute when I said 'Stop it!' Lots of sincere apologies 😊

LouLou789 · 09/02/2022 06:36

This wasn’t mine, but I attended an online talk about the Brontes a few months ago. We were all asked to mute ourselves but one old chap forgot, and got a call from his GP surgery with both sides of the conversation clearly audible. Disappointingly, it wasn’t a juicy problem, and just his booster appointment but it was the oblivious expression on his face that was just perfect

Tynetime · 09/02/2022 07:35

Took a really important call during a training session thinking I was on mute. I wasn't.

savehannah · 09/02/2022 07:37

@stravagante

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...

@stravagante Maybe you are my 13 year old's computing teacher. I was reading some of these out to her (not yours) and she said during lockdown her computing teacher talked for about 15 minutes on mute and none of them told her!!! Bloody kids! My kids school let the kids keep their cameras off so she wouldn't have seen them all smirking either. I felt so sorry for their teachers talking to a load of black unresponsive squares.
Canaloha · 09/02/2022 07:38

Last training course I was on we had a break, not me but someone else left their mic on whilst they told someone in the room with then how boring it was, how they'd been made to sit through the teacher waffling on- she quickly muted him but it was so cringe.

Sundancerintherain · 09/02/2022 07:43

Mine was a cracker, I had the regional manager call me instead of the Big boss ( extension numbers only differed by 1 digit) so I transferred the call........or so I thought, then I called him by name and insulted him , IE " ugh, Joe Bloggs is a wanker, why doesn't he just email instead of disturbing me 10 times a day " ......then I saw that the call hadn't gone through and he was still on the line. Blush
I put the call through then emailed the big boss to tell him what I'd said.
10 mins later BigBoss comes into my office , laughing and tells me not to worry about it , Joe is a wanker and annoyed everyone with the calls.
In my defence I had been working on an incredibly important and time sensitive bid document AND Joe Bloggs had been told to use email before.

m00rfarm · 09/02/2022 07:45

We had an international call across three time zones in three different continents (client, us (software company) and our developer, who was taking the call on his own as it was in the middle of the night. He was not involved in the first part of the meeting, and was clearly exhausted - after about ten minutes we could hear him snoring gently - which went on, getting louder and louder. And there was no one else with him to wake him up ...

NYnewstart · 09/02/2022 07:48

[quote KimmyKimdoo]@ArblemarchTFruitbat

Ha ha!!!!! Thanks for posting that link - that is so funny!! I’m not sure if it makes me feel better that possibly lots of teachers are going to the loo and forgetting to mute or if I actually feel worse for those poor students BlushGrin[/quote]
I’ve done it too, so easily done if you forget to switch it off.

Anniegetyourgun76 · 09/02/2022 07:51

I was cooking dinner while on mute in a performance review meeting and I accidentally took it off mute while taking something out of the freezer, I just said I dropped my phone but it was obvious I was just carrying on with my day 😆😆

WhatsErFace2020 · 09/02/2022 07:55

Meanly neither of these were me but I’ll still share as...well I’m mean 🤣

First, cross industry ‘best practice’ meeting, woman using a background filter which kept glitching showing she was laying down in bed..
Second, senior manager, butted in during Someone’s presentation to remind everyone how we’re all ‘role models’ i.e, act in a safe manner at all times...only just at the end his sat nav started telling him to take the third exit 🤣😂 i relished that one!

Ohdoleavemealone · 09/02/2022 07:59

I used to teach maths in a college and they made us run courses that were often nothing to do with our subject and poorly attended AND on TEAMS!
I set a task and then was on the phone to a colleague complaining how pointless it all was and how useless some of the people were. Didn't press mute!

Cabriolelegs99 · 09/02/2022 08:04

Not a work one but my sil got married during lockdown in a different country. My new brother in law, who has had a rather in a bid to make a good impression, had been very gracious to me and frankly rather over-the-top ebullient and expansive about joining the family, given that we hardly know one another yet. All good until I rang my sil on WhatsApp and asked to speak to him about some aspect of wedding planning or other and he didn't realise I could hear him groan when my name was announced and that I could also hear him say something really uncomplimentary about me (which was quite unjustified as I was actually doing them a favour at the time ) and also that my sil, whom I had previously been close to, said nothing in my defence. Needless to say I look at my relationship with them through rather more sceptical eyes now and feel rather a fool for taking his "gumph" at face value in the first place!

Ellmau · 09/02/2022 08:05

Suggesting in e-mail that colleague who was always late delivering their work should be given the most boring task ... and accidentally copying them in.

Managed to salvage it I think by following up with a reason why I thought they would like that task. I hope they bought it.

Lalliella · 09/02/2022 08:27

Not a mute fail but the first time I joined a meeting on a phone rather than a laptop I gave my colleague a close-up of my rather ample bosom!

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