Funniest Skype/teams or video call incident?

[coffeeplease16]

Inspired by a colleague who turned up to a call in his v. low cut dressing gown, hairy chest and all not realising video was enabled!

Anyone else got any funny stories to share?

I've not had one yet, but normally if I'm WFH I do so in my comfy clothes, no makeup etc.

I'm dressed casually, put a flick of mascara on and brushed my hair in case of a skype call. no-one needs to see me in a state!

I assumed you were just on my call. I always start camera of and mic muted. Except I had to do an update this morning and it was camera on with volume so as last to join everyone saw me stuffing a pancake in my gob while shouting at the dog.

I was exceedingly scruffy though thankfully dressed yesterday when I realised that collaborate has video enabled.

I quickly put a hat on as I hadn’t brushed my hair and then had to suffer the next ten latecomers all asking me why I was wearing a bobble hat inside! 😁😁

I love that image Viva.

Boss: ‘this is a very desperate time and our future looks uncertain’

My cat: ‘MRRRRRROOOOOOOOWWW’

I have never had to do a video call from home but feel if I did I would have to tidy the house and put some slap on.

I was on a video call to a male friend who had been left to ‘fend’ for himself for a week by his wife. He was making his dinner of spaghetti bolognaise which I watched him haphazardly make and he was delighted with his finished culinary accomplishment. He took it into the living room along with me still on the Skype. I suddenly hear a loud gasp and can see his rather shocked face so I ask what has happened and he flicks the camera round to show me his whole entire dinner is now on the sofa. I could not stop laughing as I watched him scrape it off the sofa and back onto the plate where he then proceeded to eat it all the while pulling out random strands of his wife’s hair.

He ate sandwiches for the rest of the week...I still laugh about it all these years later.

I was the "newbie" and didn't realise that doing spontaneous comedy impersonations during video meetings wasn't a "thing".

Then trying to pretend that the "thing" hadn't just happened.

Nobody ever mentioned the thing.

I'm doing an online class at the moment, and told DH not to disturb me. He needed something from the room I was in, so he came "army crawling" like a Marine across the carpet, and before I could mute my microphone, FARTED. Thankfully nobody heard, but I couldn't keep a straight face.

There was the time last summer, when i was so hot I did top half only (though i was wearing knicks) on a conference call.

Nobody could possibly have known... until the door went and I stood up to answer it

Luckily I don't give a shit about that sort of thing and thought it funny!

Panicked and answered an unexpected Skype call from my boss while naked.

Contacted a “service user” (parent) via Skype early one Saturday morning before I had done anything else, forgetting that I’d been out the night before and not taken my makeup off.

I interviewed someone a few weeks back (no video, just audio). My cat was throwing herself against the shut door, so I quietly crept over to let her in. She wanted to sit on the laptop, where I was recording the interview. I picked her up to move her, she bit me and hissed. Interviewee pauses for the briefest moment, then continues. Cat puts weight on corner of laptop not fully on the desk and flips it to the floor.

I was in a Skype team call yesterday, colleagues kid saying they need a poo in the background.

These are so funny

Cat launched a surprise attack at me from behind the chair. I jumped out of the seat and knocked my laptop over. Cue me swearing and desperate panic to get laptop and myself back upright while cat thinks it’s all a fun game.

Daily calls (WFH regularly) my colleague has cats that bite, hiss and meow to get on his lap. Because these calls a first thing I'm normally eating brekkie at the same time so don't bother with headset. His cat will set off my dog barking. If all of us don't use headsets then another 2 dogs get set off by my dog. Luckily we laugh it off and all shove the dogs out into the gardens.

Has anyone seen the video of the guy at home doing a skype interview with the news or something. Live TV.

And his kid in a walking ring sneaks in the door behind him and the nanny frantically trying to drag him back out, whilst crawling on the floor

It was his wife but yes I love that clip it’s the way the toddler comes in and then the baby in the walker not far behind.

On a conference call (no video thankfully) and got surprised by a loud fart I didn't know was coming. Of course, as it was audio only and a large group, nobody knew who the offender was...except for some reason I blurted out, "Sorry, that was ME!"

Cue uncontrollable giggles from other team members on the call.

This has cheered me up! None to share (yet!)

DD then aged 2 coming upstairs when 'supposed' to be being looked after by my DSis.

Jumps on my bed with a big kiss saying 'what cho doing mummy?' and her big face appears on everyone's screen! Everyone laughed and waved hello to her. She got super shy and ran off whilst I bollocked my DSis later! Still gets talked about and my team are lovely about it.

A colleague of mine was on a video conference call and most people had it on audio only. One guy thought he had switched his camera off and, during the meeting got up, taking his laptop, went upstairs to the bathroom, put the laptop on the corner of the bath and proceeded to have a poo whilst on camera. To make it worse (if you can) he faced the laptop full on while pulling up his trousers. Everyone was frantically messaging him and his face was apparently a picture when he was the messages.

It is never mentioned these days, except at the beginning of such meetings, the chair usually mentions who can be seen.

I am WFH and trying to get grips with Skype / MS Teams etc. These are hilarious and serve as a warning!

Currently WFM for the first time due to being pregnant and needing to isolate. IT remotely setting me up, I’m setting up Skype..its Taking forever, so I wait for the laptop to do its thing. I must have accepted a video call from IT, but no headset. For a few minutes they were trying to get my attention while I’m just aimlessly staring out my back door, blowing my nose, fiddling with pen and paper on my desk. Then the sudden look of horror when I glance at the screen and see myself and the IT guy. Luckily we work together a lot so it’s another thing to add to the list!

I did an interview the other day via video. My cat jumped up and knocked my laptop to the floor, pulling out the charger cable (it doesn’t work without it), thus killing the power. Fuck. Sake.