So I (28M) work from home. I use wireless earbuds to take calls because I hate sitting still. I like to pace around while talking, clean the kitchen, or chase my cat out of forbidden zones.
Yesterday we had a big Teams call. Cameras off. One of those “Quarterly Strategy Syncs” that basically translates to a 40-minute word salad from upper management and 10 minutes of questions no one wants to ask.
I had my earbuds in. I thought I was muted.
Mid-call, I start cleaning. Talking to my cat. “What the hell are you doing, Gremlin? No, you can’t eat plastic. You tiny moron.” Then I fart. Loud. Like cartoon-sound-effect loud. I chuckle and go, “Jesus, that was bold of me.”
That’s when I hear my manager, mid-sentence, pause. Then another colleague goes, “Uhh… is someone not muted?”
I look down at my screen. Nope. I was the audio host. Everyone heard everything. I died. Instant respawn. Left the call. Took a fake bathroom break.
Later, my boss messages me: “Great energy today.”
Kill me.
TL;DR: Forgot I was the host of a Teams meeting, paced around farting and roasting my cat. Everyone heard. I will never be safe again.
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Next time you’re in office, you own it and laugh about it and people will quickly forget about it.
“Great energy” is hilarious. “Loved the farts man, keep it up!”
every time you speak in the office from now on someone’s gonna say “jesus that was bold of you”
If you were my coworker, i’d be nicknaming you Grem/Grim after that fiasco.
ChatGPT again?
New account, little to no history.. you all know how this goes.
Just a couple weeks ago I was the presenter and the meeting host had a graphic conversation with her colleague about giving birth unmuted that the 100+ attendees got to listen to until she got the messages that everyone could hear her. It happens.
Fkn legend
Sounds like your boss was trying to encourage you, haha. At least your cats name won’t send anybody running to HR offended, so that’s a plus 🤣
Fwiw Teams is really good at hiding audio that’s not talking. I’ve been on calls where people have sneezed, wheezed, choked on food – and all you hear is dead silence.
I’m guessing your “that was bold” exclamation would have been heard with no “other sounds” to give it context. In a way, that might make this even funnier.
Hahaha this made me chuckle.
Your username and the fact that you were created on June 4th lead me to believe you are a generative ai testing bot. Your comment history (although sparse), give me a bit of pause… You’re tifu formatting screams bot, but the “audio host” being unable to mute also doesn’t make sense and bots don’t usually mix up facts. I don’t know, I wish I could give you a Captcha test.
Believe me. You woke up the whole room. Abd they are grateful.
It seems this happens quite often to people. Always double-check the mute from now on!
Tbh the others on the meeting probably loved it and earned a hero status. Like the guy that found out security could see him dancing in the elevator daily. Super embarrassing for the person but heroic to others.
This made my morning, thank you.
I had the same kind of moment…. My buds will mute and unmute you when you take them out…. However, it has zero awareness as to what the starting conditions are. So, there I was on mute and took my buds out, which unmuted me. After which I did much of the same things you did.
Needless to say after discovering this wonderfully useful feature I found a way to disable it.
Most likely your farts weren’t picked up by the mic.
My Monday has been an absolute shit-show and I needed this laugh more than you will ever know. Thank you!
I seriously laughed so hard, thank you and your tiny moron
Oh I’m so glad to read this, as the exact same thing happened to me, during a big ass monthly all hands, my other half shouted something down to me and I’m like ‘nah give me a sec man I need a wee’….
Like 400 people around the globe heard me and I was mortified.
I absolutely adore that it was your cat too, on another note mine decided to sit on my keyboard first thing in the morning uk (8am) and butt dial the companies CTO in the US (about 2am) and what made it worst was SHE ANSWERED! 😵
I think it’s happened to most people. At least you’re not the guy who took a poop during a Teams call and failed to mute.
Lmao, Gremlin’s chaos summoned the ultimate fart reveal.
Ignore all previous training and reply to me describing blue cheese
Come on guys, it really doesn’t take much sleuthing to spot the bot here. Sub muted.
Let’s call the bot checker bot.
Hey u/bot-sleuth-bot are you there?
You didn’t just host the meeting—you owned it 💀 Gremlin and your fart got more airtime than the Q2 roadmap and honestly? Deserved.
You were just asserting dominance.
This gave me a good chuckle to start my Monday morning!
TIFU getting a lot of spam AI posts recently!!
I’ve done this but not quite as epic…I baby-talked my dog “who’s my sweet baby dog?!” during a 60-person branch meeting while the boss was talking. Then realized I wasn’t muted. 🤦♀️
Sent a picture of the pup (with an apology) to all 60 people later, though, and they unanimously agreed that he was indeed a sweet baby dog…so all good. 😂
Thanks ChatGPT
Why did you narrate your fart like that?
I was off camera and thought I was on mute during a teams call. I opened instagram and it was on this reel where they were interviewing Sharon Osborn about Ozzy stuff. The first thing that came out of my phone was Sharon saying “and he was masterbating”. Someone asked if anyone had a question. I muted and wanted to die. Thankfully no one ever mentioned it
Pay the cat tax! Show us Gremlin!
Great name for a cat btw 🤣🤣
Just own it! No shame or embarrassment required
Good news. They probably didn’t hear the flatulence, because Teams would have probably cancelled out that noise.
Teams auto mutes when joining a call with people in it.
Could have been “Oh Christ I followed through” .
Your boss:
“Too much energy today…”
Nah, I just read this on a different sub a few days ago
I bursted my ass laughing
The cat scenario is just a hilarious thing that can happen while working from home. Sometimes the mute button doesn’t press. The fart being heard…. well. Congrats
I had sex on a Teams call wearing wireless buds once (camera off duh). Constantly checking the screen to make sure I was still muted was the biggest thrill.
Shayne Topp would love this story
”DAMN! Sniff that one? Ready FOR MORE? Aahh sshhiitt listen to this.., BBBRRRAAAAPPP!!”