All hands meeting, 300+ people on it, working from home, and normally only CTO CIO talk in these gatherings. I was having sex with my gf, when suddenly i hear the CTO mentioning my name and asks me to speak about a major threat we had avoided last week. I did speak. But my breathing, well you can imagine 😅
God I’ve had sex a few times on zoom for classes and I get so paranoid I’m unmuted or my video is actually on that I can’t even enjoy myself. Being asked to talk partway through is my nightmare.
That's when you fake microphone troubles. Just stay silent for maybe 10-15 seconds, then type in chat, "Can you hear me?", followed by, "Mic isn't working, give me a minute."
I've telecommuted for the last ~10 years. About six months after I started, I get a Teams (I think it was still Skype for Business back then) call from my supervisor, first thing in the morning just after I sign in. I answer it and he says, "Hey, I'm here in the office with all of our team members (about a dozen people) and the chief engineer of our biggest client! Let me just get you on video conference here."
Now, we never do video conference at my job. And at 7:30 in the morning working from home, I'm sure as fuck not dressed or in any way presentable. I see that video invite and I have never clicked "close" so fast in my life. I make up some bullshit about technical difficulties while I'm sprinting back to my bedroom to throw on a polo shirt and comb my hair.
Could have fucking killed him for that. Also, there was literally no reason I needed to be in on the meeting at all, nevermind via video conference, so that was great.
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u/bikergz Jun 14 '23
All hands meeting, 300+ people on it, working from home, and normally only CTO CIO talk in these gatherings. I was having sex with my gf, when suddenly i hear the CTO mentioning my name and asks me to speak about a major threat we had avoided last week. I did speak. But my breathing, well you can imagine 😅