PSA - Close call - Can I remind you to always make sure your mic is off!

[ImSweetEnoughDarlin]

I'm listening to a meeting and have my camera off, There was a bit of build up to the first speaker, like they were going to make an interesting announcment, turns out they aren't but I thought my mic was off and nearly shouted out to my DH in the kitchen "They've got nothing interesting to talk about again, its the boring droney cunt" THEN REALISED MY MIC WAS STILL ON 😂

Thank god I bloody didn't 😬🤐

During one of the lockdowns I joined a Zoom, not realising that (contrary to our usual settings) camera was off but mic was on. So my first contribution to the meeting was "Would you ever sit down, you hairy twat!"

I was speaking to our Maine Coon who had decided to trample all over my keyboard.

Luckily our IT department thought it was hilarious. But it was a real lesson for the future.

The friend probably has the app on her work phone - gives you the flexibility to listen into things whilst walking the dog, putting a load of laundry in or even going to the loo....

My second boss and big boss had an awkward moment on a teams with me and colleagues.

Big boss thought he went on mute for the break, but didn’t and while moaning to his wife about the second boss for us all to hear. Awkward.

I had a Whats App chat that recorded me basically telling my dog the same thing - But in a silly voice that I’d never do in public.

so easy to do if holding phone with WhatsApp page open.

Pregnant and walked into lounge where DH is WFH. He always has his headphones on whether he's on a meeting or not. I proceed to tell him that my vagina is leaking fluid and I'm not sure whether it's amniotic or wee. He points to his headset and says that his colleagues now know too much about my vagina 😂I always ask now haha.

Alright down there, Mrs Baxter?”

I can’t stop laughing 🤣🤣🤣

I've been in the shower before during a morning call where its acceptable to have your camera off if you're eating breakfast. Camera off and on mute. Nobody ever speaks apart from the presenter so i think im ok. Then someone asked "what do you think Natty is that OK?" I had to shut the water off to answer then go back on mute!

My DH was on a teams call where someone fell asleep with camera & mic on, the snoring was something else 🤣

Omg

My dog used to sleep under my desk while I WFH and one day during a quiet point in a meeting where we had paused to give people the chance to ask questions he let out the biggest fart. I checked the screen to see if my mic was on (it was) and the yellow square that highlights who is speaking was round my profile. I said sorry, that was the dog but I don't think anyone believed me.

Its the boring droney cunt. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Not quite the same but I entertained my self for ages with watching DC who did not want to appear on camera crawling across the floor when I had a background filter on that if they had just walked past ordinarily wouldn't have been picked up on camera

We had a young chap join a meeting of over 200 people including senior management in nothing but his towel, straight out of the shower - clearly hadn’t realised his camera was on and wasn’t paying attention as it took a while to get his attention (was wandering about drying himself). Made several people’s morning as he was quite buff, definitely most interesting that meeting’s ever been.

Also had one with a live mic, would probably have got away with it if he hadn’t loudly said “oh fuck” when he realised!

Loving this thread! Particularly donkey faced cunt and Mrs Baxter but they’ve all been entertaining !

Love your user name..I'm a northernsoulgirl too.

I had a day off and a lie in. As I came out the bathroom naked I heard my husband speak and turned around to see he was on a teams call with the room door open. Luckily no camera on so no one saw my arse but for a few minutes I cringed inside out!

One of my lecturers was off camera for a bit while presenting and when he came back on he had had an airier erected kind of around his desk and it was covered in pants. He was sitting in a kind of pants tent.

This has absolutely cracked me up 😂😂😂😂. Nearly woke DH up laughing. Love it 🤣🤣

@CherryHouse and @ThreeRingCircus I'm actually crying reading these 😂😂😂

Cackling 😂poor Mrs. Baxter

I walked in to (adult) ds2’s room with a bacon roll loudly announcing “luncheon is served” to discover he was on a teams meeting. Ds was mortified!

My colleague was on a Teams call with another colleague when the latter had a knock at the door. She apologised and said it was a parcel and she'd just go and get it. For some reason she took her laptop with her, camera on, and left it on the floor whilst she got the door - giving colleague 1 a full view of her underwear as she was wearing a skirt. Colleague 1 felt she had to mention it. She was understandably mortified but very glad she was wearing underwear which was presentable.

Ive learnt to shut my door whilst on a Teams video call after DS (age 4 at the time) decided to run in to the room naked with a towel on his head pretending to be a superhero. He'd just had a bath. Luckily I stopped him before he appeared in view with my panicked shouting of "NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!" The rule is now if the door is shut, knock.
Though a shut door doesn't stop noise carrying fully unfortunately. As I've had to apologise to someone, after DS decided he didn't want to wipe his own bum and started shouting and crying over it whilst sat on the toilet, and she heard it all.

Also, group work "chats" on hangouts. I'm in mat leave now, but on my last day before maternity leave I was messaging a colleague and we were going back and forth about how downhill the company (big, corporate) was going.

She then messaged on the group chat about something that had happened with one of our contracts.
I then made a comment something along the lines of more hard work whilst being underpaid and underappreciated.
Only to then realise I had sent this to everyone in the chat, 12 colleagues plus our Manager.

Just for s little more background info, recruitment ban which led to people not being replaced when leaving the business, ultimately one person being expected to do 2.5/3 peoples workload which meant most of us working an extra 3+ hours a day, unpaid and still not being able to keep on top of the workload.
Pay freeze for us but the company was reporting record breaking profits for that and the previous years.

Nothing was said to me about it, still awkward though 😅

I forget how far my blue tooth range is and my ear buds are on a band around my neck so even when Ive taken them out I've been caught out a few times, including going to the loo, fortunately it was just a colleague not a whole meeting.

I was in a very long meeting once and I was hungry so I turned the camera off, put mute on and took my laptop into the kitchen where I put it on the worktop. I put my food in the microwave and put the radio on retro and my ear buds around my neck.

Billy Idol, Rebel Yell came on I then proceeded to dance around the kitchen really giving it some, arms, hips, pulling faces mouthing more, more, more. When the microwave pinged I looked over to see that I had somehow clicked my camera back on while carrying it downstairs and there was a screen of faces watching me.

No one said anything, I am dying inside recalling it now.