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It was the umpteenth lunch zoom. Annoyed that accounts kept scheduling them, I proceeded to just eat my lunch on camera. And I made sure it was weird/awkward things to eat: a jar of olives, ribs covered with sauce, smearing almond butter on a banana before eating it without breaking eye contact, etc.
If you’re gonna keep taking my lunch time, I’m gonna make it uncomfortable.
That’s so petty and pass agg... I love it
Account Director was “giving feedback” (killing the idea). I thought I was on mute and told my boyfriend “Ugh, she always do the same thing, I hate her”. When my boss asked who I was talking about I said it was a “loud neighbor” 😪
Rising Star
🤣😭 Way to be quick on your feet!
Potty training my kid, forgot to mute my microphone when she rushed in and asked for help, had AirPods in, and a whole room of people got treated to, “Did you tinkle?!? You tinkled! What a good girl!”
Chief
That’s actually funny and wholesome. Who’s a proud parent? You are! Yes you are.
An Account Director, who I had never met in person and had no idea what she looked like, was cropped from the neck down just petting her two cats the whole call. Felt like I was talking with Charlie from Charlie’s Angels if he were to Zoom.
Or the villain from inspector gadget.
1. Someone else: a director at a sister agency on a large meeting had a loud, ugly fight with his wife. There were a lot of people on the call and it took a while to figure out who it was and for the organizers to mute him. He later apologized but after the way he talked to her I can’t look at him the same way ever again....
2. Myself: my cat decided that a client status meeting was the perfect time to jump up on the couch next to me and purr loudly while kneading a pillow. It was right in the microphone and someone was like, “is that a cat?”
Our CCO was shirtless, towel around the lower body, jumped in on the call and thought he wasn’t “on” yet. Well we all pretended we didn’t see anything.
(1) Daughter pooped on my arm during a c-suite leadership meeting. Went on mute to wash it off. (2) Rescued a cat that ran out of a bodega into four lanes of traffic.
Hahaha
Oopsie poopsie
https://www.businessinsider.com/jeffrey-toobin-fired-new-yorker-writer-exposed-zoom-call-2020-11
My 4 yr old came into my office, naked!, while I was on a video call and started working out on the elliptical behind me...so was in full view.
Today my 8 yr old came in while I was on a video call holding the cat and having her dance in the background.
🤦🏻♀️ I need new kids
If I don’t have kids like this I don’t want em🤣
My cat jumped onto my desk multiple times during a zoom interview.
A pregnant coworker forgot about the camera when she squat down in her dress, computer in hand, & flashed me. I let it go & then she realized & we had a good laugh. :)
My husband walked up behind me and gave me a lingering boob grab while I was presenting during a Pre pro meeting on zoom. I just kept talking... I still don’t know if others could really see what happened there! Up until that point during WFH, I was rarely on zoom meetings. He thought I was just on a call (or so he said!).
I walked into a room to drop some papers off to my husband. He had been having stomach issues so I asked him how he was doing. He responded that he was not doing great and had been pooping all over the house (he meant in the diff bathrooms). 2 seconds later he gets a text from his coworker saying his zoom wasn’t on mute.
I was in a meeting and a coworkers girlfriend walked behind him completely naked after getting out of the shower. Not sure if my coworker even noticed but we sure as hell didn’t say anything...
My boss just said in the meeting “I’ve been forcing myself into her” then realized how terrible that line was 🤣 I can hear the crickets miles away.