Video Conference Horror Stories

[BigOrangeMojo]

It's March 1st and many of us have been working at home for the past year. Does anyone have any horror (or funny) stories dealing with a video conference (Zoom, Teams, etc).

If so, this is the thread to share

 

[Wireless1]

I’m sure this’ll be trumped quickly.On a large “MS Team”s” meeting we were instructed to turn off video to save bandwidth. Of course one guy doesn’t so his “window” is visible to all, and he proceeds halfway through the call to “mine for gold”

 

[BigOrangeMojo]

Last week, I was on the call with a consultant and his wife walked across the room in the background wearing very little. It wasnt a pretty sight.

For me, my boss and I had a call with the former CFO right after all this stuff started last year. With this CFO, you had to keep his attention or he'd get distracted and get on his phone. If you kept his attention for 20 minutes, that was a good meeting. Well, we had an hour scheduled.

I wanted to keep mood light so I turned the camera to show the UT stuff in the room and kept that as the background the entire meeting. Well, once I turned the camera, there were a couple of those touristy trap Old Tyme pictures with the wifey just in view of the camera. You know the black and white pictures where they show way too much leg, cleaveage, hold a gun in 1 hand, and a fifth of Jack in the other. Well, we kept the CFOs attention the entire time and at the end, he was like "I love all the UT stuff and the picture of your wife with the gun and Jack.

 

[imw8n4u]

Was on too many back to back calls for my dog. She was whining at me for about 30 minutes and finally had enough. She jumped into my lap and peed all over me, causing me to yell "daaaaahhhh!!!" into the open mic. Had to immediately step away, leaving everyone in the call wondering what had happened.

 

[Wireless1]

Was on too many back to back calls for my dog. She was whining at me for about 30 minutes and finally had enough. She jumped into my lap and peed all over me, causing me to yell "daaaaahhhh!!!" into the open mic. Had to immediately step away, leaving everyone in the call wondering what had happened.

The new leader

 

[Hurley Mooncalf]

My cat kept trying to get onto a shelf behind me which I don't let him on since it has collectibles. He never gets up there but he was fully engaged in trying so I had to snatch him up and hold him my arms like Doctor Evil holds Mr Bigglesworth to keep him from wrecking the joint. My co-workers were amused.

 

[DancingOutlaw]

Guy at work was on a call/webinar with several hundred participants. The speaker began reading the presentation slides word for word. After a couple somebody says "holy **** is this idiot going to read all of these to us?". Dead silence.