What are some of the weird & wonderful places/situations ppl have been in whilst on call?

I for one went to pee with my airpods in & on unmute 😳 (someone said it sounded like I was making tea 😂)

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They were being nice to say it was “tea” instead of “pee” 🤣

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I guess he was trying to give you a hint without spilling the t 😂

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I sneezed super loud on a call this week thinking I was on mute. I kind of leaned forward to sneeze too so it was right into my mic. The presenter (OMP) on a national partner/director call with 50+ people said - "Holy CRAP".

I just muted, I'm sure plenty of people saw my pic pop up as the speaker but I went on living.

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Gotta be v careful about this, happened to me once during a C-suite presentation and my colleague pinged me immediately. I only noticed thanks to my watch notification... literally stopped peeing mid-stream 😹

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Mid stream hahaha 😂😂😅😅

Had a call with the GC and associate GC of a prospective client occur while I was on the shitter with a bad case of taco shits :( somehow managed to hit mute at all the right times and they never knew.

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My ass was. That was the issue. That toilet and I became good friends that day.

The more embarrassing bit was when I was washing my hands and the two people speaking were like 'oh could you repeat that I couldn't hear what you said' in that moment I suspected, 'can they hear the noise I'm making?' .. which I found a few mins later was v true, much to my dismay 😂😳😅

And yes I shamelessly went with 'yea I was making tea!' 🤭

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Not work-related but was in a Zoom virtual workout class and someone ripped a really loud one during stretching.

The coach/host laughed and said “I’m not gonna say whose square lit up when that happened”

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😱😱😱😱 you're playing with fire 🤭😏😂

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