Anybody have an epic zoom mishap story?

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I smoked my vape, just puffing away, thinking my camera was off. It was not off.

It was also, a client call 😵‍💫😩😩

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I am pretty sure I did this but not one person said anything to me

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I was sitting on my couch before I got a desk and all of a sudden my golden retriever looked over the screen and all you could see was his dumb giant head as he nosed and licked the camera and then stepped on my lap and accidentally logged me out of the meeting. At least everyone enjoyed it.

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I fidget with stuff on my desk. I was on an interview and I was playing with a syringe I use to refill my pen’s ink cartridge. Halfway through the call I realize that I’d been gesturing with a syringe the entire time, so I tried telling them “oh, btw this is for refilling ink” and for some reason decided to hit the plunger to . . . I guess show them it wasn’t full of heroin? Instead it just blasted black ink all over my face (I hadn’t cleaned it since using it, which is why it was on my desk). After the call, I also realized the root beer I was drinking looked exactly like a bottle of beer.

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I am not a cat

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My husband’s third day at his new job. He was on a Zoom call with his boss, several other executives, and the VP of the company. We keep a dresser of t-shirts in the office. I got out of the shower and walked in thinking he was just on a voice call, wearing only a rather skimpy pair of panties. Was on screen for a good 30 seconds and even walked closer to the camera to get a shirt out of the drawers before I noticed. I died of embarrassment. No one ever said anything. Wondering if I’ll get weird looks at the holiday party.

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LOL no but good to know I’m not alone in this mishap!

Not really epic, but:

I work on a team of women (this is great) and I am a man (this is also great). Someone brought up the graffiti artist Alexandre Farto on a team call. I laughed because I am pre-programmed to laugh at fart jokes (they gave me grace, I apologized).

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I was interviewing via zoom for a new job at 2 in the afternoon. My fiancé is a doctor who typically works 4am-9pm so I didn’t think to tell him about it. He surprise came home early and just started yelling “honey I’m hoooooome” as he walked through the house. I was trying to downplay it and just keep talking to my interviewer assuming he would hear me and keep quiet realizing I was on a call. Instead he came upstairs to the office while continuing to talk out loud so I had to politely let the CD know I was muting myself and proceeded to scream at him with my mic off and camera on.

I apologized and said sorry you know how tough it is to have kids, sadly my kid is 31 and doesn’t understand social cues. I didn’t get that job.

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Boyfriend walked into the camera frame naked while I was on a call with a vendor. Thankfully it was a very small group of us. I slammed my laptop shut and when I came back on we all kind of pretended it didn’t happen. 😅

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This reminds me of my grad school programs graduation commencement last year…one classmate’s dad/granddad was shaving his face butt naked in front of a mirror behind the mom/grandma’s camera, so we saw both the front and the back…there were at least 100 people on the line lol.

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A collective gasp by at least 3 attendees notified another attendee that we all saw her punch her cat.

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Did you tell her to check out Don’t F*ck With Cats on Netflix? Let her know the Internet will come for her

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I sang regulators on a call because a presenter kept saying regulations, over and over again. I accidentally pressed the space bar and everyone heard me.

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FUNNIEST OF THIS THREAD. Can’t get myself of the picture

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My desk is next to the bathroom. I was in a bigger meeting and was on mute for most of it so my bf decided to go to the bathroom. Unfortunately he timed the flushing with when I unmuted to say farewell in the end. After the call a colleague in the meeting chat went “did someone go to the bathroom during the call?” I was too embarrassed to say anything, what if they thought I was making up an excuse by blaming my bf?

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I was presenting a Continuing Legal Education program that was being recorded and both of my children ran into the room screaming and chasing each other, completely naked.

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Yesterday someone tweeted they had to mute themselves because their kid came in and shouted “CHANGE MY DIAPER OR I WILL KILL YOU” 😂😂

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Couldn’t get a potato filter off my zoom during a pitch meeting. So I was a potato for about 20 minutes.

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I panicked!!

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A product guy at my old firm was doing a demo to the entire department. His wife walked around behind him topless for a good minute until she walked out of frame. I don’t think he ever realized lol

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A coworker was sharing his screen, to showcase a new process walkthrough. After we were done, the supervisor began throwing random quiz type questions around. Coworker didn't know he was still sharing his screen and got onto teams and began complaining about the supervisor. The entire zoom can see the chat!

Almost immediately after the meeting ended a mass email blast went out reminding everyone to only use teams for professional communication

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My mishap wasn’t with me. I was having a 1:1 with a direct report. When the meeting started we were talking as normal, until someone went to walk into the room. When they got up, they must have forgot that they weren’t wearing pants but underwear. Needless to say it was hard for me to keep a straight face after that. 😭

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I was in a zoom meeting once, I thought I was not on camera - but I was and I was tearing up a salad! 😂

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I was on a zoom call with coworkers and had finished presenting. The CEO was giving a lot of ridiculous feedback in his mumbly voice. I slacked a coworker, "God, I literally hate the hours between 9 and 5."

The coworker texted me saying, "You're still sharing your screen."

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This is actually a story from before the days of normal zoom, probably back in like 2016. Also, I missed it. Friend of mine was another account supe and I walked into the conference room and he’s alone almost falling out of his chair laughing trying to keep it together. I look up to like the 10 ft projector screen that has the call screen on with our medical director name on mute.

So basically my friend had showed up a little early to the meeting and dialed in and was sitting there. We had like a 65-75 year old medical director who used to be a pediatric oncologist who worked remotely from another city. He had also dialed in remotely early but didn’t realize his camera was on and was just sitting the shirtless in his boxers and must have seen himself in the camera and panicked fumbled for like 30 seconds turn the camera off. Apparently made a wild panic smile face. My friend was on mute and just dialed in but was just wheezing “his face… dude… his face “ through laughter

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