TIFU by showing my boss a meme instead of a quarterly report

r/

So I (28M) was working late last week and got sent a meme from a friend, just a stupid inside joke about spreadsheets being sentient and plotting revenge. I saved it to my downloads folder because I thought I might show my coworker in the morning. Flash forward to the next day, I’m in a meeting with my manager and our department head, who is notoriously humorless.

I go to present our Q1 performance report, click to open what I think is the PowerPoint, and full screen a meme of an Excel sheet with googly eyes and the caption: “You thought I was just data… I’m your destiny.”

I panicked. Tried to close it, but Windows helpfully froze for five seconds. Longest five seconds of my life. I just blurted “Wrong file, sorry,” but the damage was done.

The department head just stared at me. No smile. No reaction. Just “Let’s move on.”

I haven’t been assigned a presentation since.

TL;DR: Went to present our Q1 report. Accidentally full-screened a stupid meme instead. My boss and the department head now think I’m either unhinged or dangerously unserious.