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What’s the worst thing you’ve witnessed in a Teams/Zoom meeting?

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purpleroses2 · 03/04/2026 18:20

I am ultra paranoid about online meetings, as I’ve witnessed a few mishaps:

  1. A woman took a personal phone call and didn’t realise a colleague had left their mic on. She started slagging the whole team off and we could hear every word.
  2. A man left his mic on and went to the toilet
  3. Not me personally - but a friend was in a meeting where a woman left her cam on by accident and she had just got out of the shower. She then got dressed in full view of everyone on the meeting.

I wouldn’t dare do any of those things even near my laptop, just incase of an accident occurring.

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BashfulClam · 28/06/2026 18:21

elgreco · 03/04/2026 19:20

Someone eating an apple in a slobbery manner very close up.

I have a colleague who eats on every call, not on camera but it’s very off putting. Last week she was slurping an ice pole!

Daisychainsandglitter · 28/06/2026 21:04

Waiting for a UK wide teams call to start. All deadly quiet until someone yelled ‘you fucking cocksucker!’

KeepPumping · 28/06/2026 21:08

Daisychainsandglitter · 28/06/2026 21:04

Waiting for a UK wide teams call to start. All deadly quiet until someone yelled ‘you fucking cocksucker!’

Was it a parrot?

merryhouse · 28/06/2026 22:29

we had a sudden Very Loud swear in the middle of an All-Colleague Call a year or so back.

Nobody said anything.

Recently I discovered (colleagues chatting) that the person who left very suddenly had been the one responsible...

canuckup · 28/06/2026 22:56

Honestly, nothing.

I work at the most boring place imaginable.

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