TIFU by having too many microphones

I’ll preface this by saying I have a lot of microphones because I am a stickler for sound quality. I used to do voice over work, so I have a professional grade mic, in addition to my laptop mic and a headset mic. It’s a lot to keep track of, as I have now learned from experience.

I work in IT and work from home frequently. My friends got me into a new game recently and I stay in the discord chat to listen in on what they have going on and chime in occasionally. It makes working from home less isolating.

So, I am having a teams meeting and have to occasionally chime in with some questions about some software we adopted. In my infinite wisdom, I placed my headset on the arm of my swivel mic, not realizing that my headset had the discord chat still going and all my mics became unmuted when I unmuted myself on teams.

I am chatting away, talking about form fields when I get a teams message from a co-worker, “Lol, you’re not muted, bro.”

I think to myself, “No shit, Sherlock. I’m talking.”

I get another message from another coworker, “Sir, what herbs you got?”

I am wrapping up, and am confused. Everyone on the call is now asking questions like, “What is that? What kind of herbs are they talking about? That cannabis?”. Then I see that I have been muted by the meeting organizer. As the realization dawns on me, I look over and do, in fact, hear the distant conversation of my friends in my headset, which is in an oh-so-close proximity to my mic.

I ask my coworker in chat, “What did they say? What the hell did they say?”

“Hahah, I couldn’t hear it all, but I did enjoy the part where he asked ‘What kind of herbs you got for me, daddy?’”

Dead inside. My bosses, owners of the company, on the call. Staring blankly at the screen. Have more meetings today with the bosses.

TL;DR : Incidentally let my discord friends in on a work meeting, calling each other daddy and talking about herbs. Head honchos all present.