Happened early in the morning today and I’m still dying inside.
So here’s what happened. We had a big quarterly review meeting with the whole department and some of the executives. My presentation was first so after I finished I thought I hit the mute button and started making lunch while listening from distance.
I accidentally dropped some of my food on the floor and started swearing . Only realized something was wrong when the call went completely silent. Turned out my mic was on the whole time and all 47 people heard everything.
Here’s when it gets funny and how I am fully convinced that some stuff are just meant to be: the swearing happened exactly when the marketing director finished proposing a new project that would put more work on our team. My boss messaged me: “Check your mute button.”. I literally froze and had no blood circulating lmao. After the meeting he said that at first (when he read the draft before the meeting) he liked the new project, but he’s gonna reconsider it since it’s gonna cost the company a lot of money (since we have to get some certifications first and those trainings cost a lot cuz we’re like 12 people in our team only). So yea I’m still feeling some butterflies in my stomach, but what happened happened and life goes on I guess
TL;DR: Unmuted my mic and then I dropped food and started swearing and by doing all this I accidentally got an extra project that was meant for our team reconsidered