Have you ever embarrassed yourself in a Teams/Zoom meeting?

[LittlePrecious]

I was in a meeting yesterday.

We were individually reading through and considering a very important policy document. So all was silent on the meeting.

The dog farted and I told her "You smell of cabbage, you fat twat".

I didn't realise my microphone was on.

In the early days of lockdown, I shared my screen but couldn't figure out how the share the right window so I ended up sharing a paused video of me trying to do a handstand. Colleagues were, of course, curious so I ended up showing them to whole video. Fortunately, it was only my small team so all fine.

Shouting "don't be so fucking stupid" was a low point for me.

It wasn't immediately obvious to my colleagues that I was yelling at my teenage son who was just the other side of my screen jumping up and down on a pile of wood about to break his ankles...

I accidentally put the car filter on and I didn’t know how to turn it off.

I was trying to explain how I was going delay something and address it later.
I said 'let's just put a finger in the dyke' to mostly 20 somethings with no frame of reference to the little Dutch boy I was actually referring to.

Joining a meeting back in lockdown - camera off, mic on (usually our company does it the other way around). My then Maine Coon had just jumped up and was trampling around on my desk, being a nuisance. So the first words my colleagues heard from me were "Would you sit down, you hairy twat."

Not me but the other week my colleague took our whole meeting to the toilet with her. It was a large external meeting - the sort where one person talks a lot and 50 odd people just sit there and listen. I WhatsApped her to let her know we could all see her having a wee but she didn’t see it so I just deleted the message because I couldn’t see the point of her being embarrassed and so far she just doesn’t know

I was once participating an online group for counselling and suddenly had a massive nose bleed .

I was in an online court hearing mid-lockdown which went on for longer than anticipated. My cat got hungry so jumped up on my desk and smacked me across the face with her paw.

everyone saw. Nobody said anything.

Managed to press a button and close the entire meeting, couldn’t reconnect and then cut off the manager who was frantically trying to phone me to continue the discussion.
tech and nerves are not a good mix.

I fell asleep after a carb heavy lunch - mouth open snoring. My kind colleague turned off the cameras 😳

Yup. I was screen sharing a document someone had asked for and totally forgot. As everyone was arguing over something, I started Teams messaging my colleague about how frustrating this argument was - totally forgot I was screen sharing and everyone could see 😳😳😳😳

That really made me laugh!

I was working in the kitchen rather than my office for some reason and my husband needed to grab his work trousers. I could see him dithering about whether or not to speed past in his boxers but when he finally went for it….imagine a man in a T-shirt and boxers crouching (but not low down enough to be unseen) with his arms in the air (sort of crab walk style) and then moving at a glacial pace, sideways on facing the camera. Everyone watched his random and ridiculous progress in my background. I should have quickly turned off my camera but I was so taken aback I just let it happen

Shared my screen and my chat complaining about my manager; shared my screen, forgot, started checking emails; fell off a chair; swore loudly at a noisy teenager (mine); not as bad as some I’ve seen

My son had used my zoom account for something and changed my name to “I am Darth Vader” and turned the camera and microphone off. I joined an important client call the following Monday and there was a very long 5 minutes while I could hear everyone mulling over who “Darth Vader” who joined the call was, before I could work out how to change all the settings back and apologise.

During lock down we had twice weekly meetings esp earlier on so that everyone knew what was going on and could familiarise themselves with zoom and how to share screens , mute , camara off / on etc.

Lots of glitches to start with but nothing major .

I started one meeting and also tried to send a msg say sorry for the beeping my carbon monoxide sensor battery was going flat.

Only I didn't actually send the msg.
I could see lots of people adjusting screens, fiddling with speakers, headphones , keyboards but it didn't twig with me that it was my beeping they were trying to isolate and turn off.
They all thought is was something on their set up.
It was 10 mins before someone said 'can anyone else hear a faint beeping?"
Que lots of nodded and mutterings.
I quickly mutted myself !

During lockdown, when schools were closed and I was on one of my first online meetings, DD2 pottered into the room. She stopped just inside the door when she realised I was on a call, so she didn’t appear on camera. She did however let rip with a massive, very long, very loud fart. My mic was on.

Yes. The picture went off then the sound too. I was bored rigid so took the opportunity to wander off and make a sandwich. Obviously the link reconnected during my prolonged absence and when I went in the next day everyone told me how they had seen my cat’s face in close-up and also her rear end.

I was in a really serious meeting with multiple VIPs and I had my camera off. Or so I thought. They could all see me saying some very serious, important stuff - in a bright green avocados all over it oodie and massive bedhead. Mortifying.

Was this all one meeting? 😂😂

You've all made me feel so much better. Creeping husbands and open-gobbed napping have really made me laugh.

@LittlePrecious no I’ve spread my shame out across numerous colleagues. I had to ask my colleagues friend to stop messaging me on teams in the end as the chat would pop up with some hideous response indicating how much I was moaning whenever I presented. Couldn’t figure how to stop the pop ups and trust it would work. Oh I also had a cat that would attack me so every meeting in the sitting room (capacity) was me looking furtively around, terrified.

These have made me laugh especially OP.

I joined a meeting with very important department heads. I didn't have teams on my laptop so dialled in by phone. I got cut off mid meeting and was unable to dial back in. Colleague (also on the meeting) told me after that when I got cut off, my phone started playing 'hold' music, so it looked like I had just put all v important people on hold to take a personal call.

Ddog did this also.

Yes, unfortunately.

During lockdown on a group call with some quite important people in government. They were giving an update on a particular policy area and mentioned the work of my colleague. Colleague had recently been promoted so this was his first time his work was discussed at this level. I gave a supportive "whoop" and realised my mic was not muted when the speaker fell silent.

Shortly after the end of Covid I had a brand new team. My first meeting with them coincided with my three year old being off ill from nursery. I thought I had him safely settled ok the sofa with tv and a drink, but he turned up in the background and vomited for all to see on camera.

Interesting how many of us have been stitched up by our cats. Furry bastards.😹