Anyone have any “real” funny Zoom stories that have happened so far? No lying like you saw your coworker jerking it during a call, but anything even slightly embarrassing? Need some stories to motivate me to work lol.
My boyfriend’s company, which is a healthcare tech company has a weekly allhands during which the exec team presents. One of the exec - a woman in charge or data security or compliance or some shit - had a hand coming from behind and grabbing her boob. Apparently it was a man’s hand, perhaps her husband or boyfriend, or may be her side? 😉It was only for a brief moment. May be she didn’t realize that the camera was pointing a bit lower than she thought. My boyfriend grabbed me to point it out , we burst out laughing. He wanted to grab a screenshot and I told him NO! Lol 😂
That is a good one 👍
If you find it funny when it happens to other women, we will find it funny when it happens to you. Just saying.
During the big meeting call, one person unmuted herself and told "I have a question..." and proceed asking question which apparently was addressed to someone she is calling in parallel on her phone. We told her that she probably want to go on mute and she did that. Than during the call she unmuted herself a few more times and we were just hearing her background phone conversation, once it was almost a minute uninterrupted (nope it did not sound like a job interview).
During a team meeting one member forgot to mute himself and he started to argue with his wife about something he forgot to do. This was an elder dude so it was not like some "young married couple" stuff but the very real one after having decades spent together. He also walked away from his computer so didn't hear us anymore. It was quite embarassing, I desperately tried to claim host so that I can mute him, eventually I could. Okay, so this wasn't really as funny, sorry for that.
Another story came to my mind but it was a recorded meeting I couldn't attend. There was 50+ participants, some big tech training, a guy was talking about something when in the background his child got loud making some usual kid noises and this guy yelled at him like an animal like "BRUUUUUH" pretty loudly and inarticulatly (I didn't understand what he said exactly) and then there was perfect silence for a couple of seconds, then the presentation continued like nothing ever happened. The kid got surely traumatized for life and it all has been recorded and kept for eternity.
Traumatized because got yelled at? Are you kidding? Single most traumatizing moment of my childhood was when my mom threw my Nintendo 64 on the ground after I didn't stop playing. Not any yelling, not any belt/flip flop beatings (which there were plenty of)
This in India it's not uncommon. But I thought in the states , it's against the law 😂
My manager has a kid that like playing dress up. Occasionally he would appear in videos wearing a tiara or funky hairdo. He didn’t forget to take it off, just doesn’t want to upset the kid!
He a good dad. If he is as supportive as a manager, then he could be a good manager.
During a fairly sizable department all hands a guy was driving while unmuted and proceeds to road rage at a guy who cut him off in traffic
How many F bombs and did anyone hit him up after to chat about the shit drivers?
I saw my coworker jerking it during a call
We can't forget the ultimately topical gaffe courtesy of American politicians: https://www.vice.com/en/article/epdgm4/new-yorker-suspends-jeffrey-toobin-for-zoom-dick-incident
Do you have a video for that ?
I saw someone going to pee in his bathroom but likely the camera did not show too much
When I am in a call with senior management people of 20 members. I accidentally switched on the camera and walking around my room for couple of minutes top less and seriously talking about the next roadmap item. Then my manager shouted to switch off my video'. 🤦♂️🤦♂️ The whole team teased me for next 1 week. Then onwards I revoked the camera access for all the apps . PS I am guy.
That last line was an anticlimax 🤣
Not gonna lie, you had me in the first half.