Most embarrassing zoom call you’ve had or witnessed while WFH?

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I was listening in on a client call. I was so bored and started blasting a playlist of dramatic show tunes. I was not on mute.

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That sounds glorious, not embarrassing

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A coworker was on zoom not muted, screaming at their kid not to poo in the trash Can anymore 😂

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I was presenting work to client and my kid (3 at the time) wandered into frame and told me she had to go poop and if I could wipe her

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“I’m not a cat”

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But he’s not a cat

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A town hall where a certain creative was presenting and her team members started talking about her in the meeting chat! How did she get selected to present. How she didn’t really work on the project, who really did the work. Everyone could see including her. Ooof.

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Oh geez 😳

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Town Hall of about 300+ people. EVP welcomes new employees, calls a few out based on what they put in their little "about me" bios that are being shown in a presentation. One of the new people, clearly not muted, starts telling someone she's in a room with how "the EVP just called me out on a call with like 300 people!" And then she just kept going on about it and it was sooo uncomfortable. I probably would've just quit.

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I'd say hold my beer, but that most certainly wasn't a beer that Toobin was holding.

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When working from my parents, I was presenting and my mom walked into frame after a workout and took off her shirt

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A young guy I work with went to ‘share screen’ and there was a ladyboy escort website up! He tried to click it away but I know a couple of us saw it because later we sent him PMs so we could get the address and access the site.

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MD1 ✌️

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Dude wasn’t muted while on the phone with a recruiter, giving all the details from a call he had just had with another agency (including salary). Haunts me to this day.

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I was moderating a workshop with a bunch of people across my agency network and clients when my laptop fell off my desk to the floor (I bumped it with my knee). Camera and microphone on. Then after apologizing all embarrassed like, my dad (having heard the crash) came up to the room I was working in and loudly asked “what’s goin’ on in here?”.

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An all agency one where leadership try to get people involved by playing games and shit. Next time, write it in an email. It’s less cringey that way.

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I went number two in the bathroom with my camera on (facing me). Thankfully the mic was muted but I still got a message that people could see me 🙈

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