Mortifying incident at work today - help!

[LeevMarie]

OK, I'll have to be a little careful here in case it's outing. . .

Large Teams call today with whole department. At the end of the call, everyone starts saying bye and I'm sitting in the living room with my husband when I make a remark to him about the person leading the meeting (who just happens to be a senior leader . . .). What I said wasn't very polite, but not necessarily unpleasant. I said something along the lines of, 'politicians answers' and laughed a little.

Immediately I realise that I'm not on mute. I'm horrified.

DH thinks I can legitimately claim that this was not directed at the person speaking, but I think I need to own up.

WWYD:
YABU - Ignore and hope nobody has heard
YANBU - Own the faux pas, speak to the person I directed the comment at.

Please feel free to tell me your Teams indiscretions to make me feel better if you like!

Your husband was watching sky news and was making a comment as your meeting was ending..... you said politicians answers....

DH always comes in and chats during my wfh and because I dont have an office, I work at the kitchen table, which when my DH or DD are cooking lol. Blur has to be put on. So yes you was reacting to something your husband said, not the meeting if anyone asks..

Never forget 😂😂😂

Your husband was telling you how he'd got out of Christmas with the in-laws. You were commenting on his politician answers. Your only crime is having a husband that comes in just as your meeting ends.

For a teams blooper - I was tuning in to a division update, being delivere by my Executive Director. Logged on as I walked through the door. See my westie come running towards me and greet him with "hello handsome" - I call him handsome a lot. There's a rather long, awkward pause in the presentation. I looked at my phone. Unbeknownst to me, they hadn't muted all on entry... Nothing was said but it was rather embarrassing that people may have thought it was directed at the exec dir! We're muted on entry these days LOL

I once said on a teams call ‘fucking bullshit, you weren’t saying that yesterday when I needed help. Absolute cunt’

I thought my camera and mic were both off, but it turns out I forgot to mute the mic 😤

And to top it off I was the only person on the call who doesn’t have an English accent so extremely obvious who was speaking!!!

Last week I said ''nope hasn't started yet, they're all still assembling''. Which was only insulting to the people who hadn't arrived to hear it I guess.
I also once said ''this is so boring I'm finding it hard to stay awake''.
These aren't even bad ones really.

my friend's boss's boss said ''what do they all even do, they all act like they're so important''. Wow. That was a doozy.

Just say Suella B popped up on your phone on a bbc newsflash - if anyone asks. Does anyone really watch recordings of meetings they have missed - right to the end. I doubt it.

Then half of the country must have been unprofessional during the lockdown.

Could there also be an issue that he was in the room, depending on the meeting, with confidentiality? Otherwise claim as others have said it was a supposed to be off sera response to something he said from another room- unless it's also caught the audio of his question.

😄 This made me laugh, fantastic opener!

I’ve told this before but do so enjoy it! An ex Head of Safety that was always so holier than thou unmuted himself to berate a presenter for their departments unsafe behaviour when his sat nav suddenly piped up “turn left in 50 yards” the presenter said, “should we wait until you pull over to continue orrr”

My company need to increase my salary so I can afford to move in that case!

For a GDPR breach one must do something inappropriate with someone’s personal data. I expect the OP would have ensured privacy if she was discussing something sensitive. Plenty of people work in Caffè Nero…

That's what headphones are for. And IT policies.

This

ooh the irony

I am so sorry but that really made me laugh…….

Our IT team sent an email at the start of lockdown reminding everyone about confidentiality. As far as I'm concerned they have to accept it's mine and DH's home, not an office.

Regarding headphones, no one can hear me when I speak if they are plugged in so until I can see IT DH will hear both sides of the conversation. Not my fault

Always surprises me just how many MNers' first suggestion for how to respond to a given situation is to lie.

I'm sure people aren't this dishonest in real life.

😂