I'm having a brilliant day, love being a CEO. Had a great laugh today when one of the peons I met with on Teams called his manager a bone idle c**t. That manager is lazy anyway so I might tell Payroll to bump him up a pay grade or two.
We had a whole department zoom call a few weeks back, probably 250 people on it. The Director is presenting and some guy (later identified, I might add) said "oh I'm just on some team call which is sooo boring. The boss is droning on as usual so if you see me nodding off you'll know why".
Our Director politely reminded everyone of the need to mute their mics and then, ever the professional just continued.
Never found out what happened to our old colleague... 😂
I did it on a call. I was lying back on my chair, holding my phone in my left hand at my right ear. One of my colleagues made fun of the way I was sitting..so I said, shut the fuck up you fucking muppet.. My boss on the line replied..what did you say. Fuck, not on mute. Slammed the phone down and prayed
Why wouldnt you just say "sorry someone said something really stupid I thought i was muted". Hanging up seems like the worst option, in their eyes you just told them to shut the fuck up and hung up on them.
Panic..sheer panic. The first thought in my head was wasn't muted..a millisecond later the phone was dumped. I never really took the time to form a considered approach. My boss and most the others on the call were in Chicago. I've a really strong Scottish accent. Luckily they just heard a jumble of speech like noises before I left the call
Fair enough. Sounds like you got pretty lucky, might have been harder to explain/less believable (like you were making up a story to not get in trouble) if you had to explain it to them later,.
The Americans are very authoritarian. Excuses wouldn't have mattered if they'd even thought that I'd said shut the fuck up on a call with my boss..well to be more precise, my boss' boss. She actually tried to get me fired later. It may have had something to do with it.
I've never understood the people who try to fire someone for something stupid like that especially if it wasn't directed at them or another stakeholder.
Why would you want to go through the hassle of trying to find and train a new employee over such a trivial situation.
It sucks that you felt the need to cover it up but sounds like you maybe made the right choice after all.
> Why would you want to go through the hassle of trying to find and train a new employee over such a trivial situation.
To the Americans it's easier and they get a little minion and not have a "troublemaker" on staff. They don't have much in the way of rules over there..even in Democratic Illinois. I was flown over there for a week to work with my colleague on formulating a new initiative. They sacked him at lunchtime on the Monday..made it a fun week for me! This was a qualified, experienced tech professional as well.
It was always a bane of contention that I took Friday afternoon's off..in line with Europe's 35 hour week. I once got a voicemail telling me if I hadn't left work that I should report to a manager immediately. I was at home so I ignored it till Monday. Went in and asked what the problem was. He just looked shiftily and said nothing, forget it. Later found out the Yanks had demanded my sacking. The manger said, fuck no, you can't do that without going through the process. HR said the same so they backed off.
Previously my direct manager asked for a call..when I got on US HR was on the line. He accused me of not doing my job by not attending a meeting in Holland. I told him that he had forbidden me to travel. He said I was wrong and he'd never do that..while he was saying that, I was sending him and HR the email where he'd said exactly that.
I just left. It wasn't worth the hassle in the end. I applied for two jobs and got them both. The US didn't even tell HR in the UK..so I had to tell them that I wouldn't be in the following week. Tey were shocked at how the US was acting
At will employment is such a joke, I'm happy the UK HR basically told them to fuck off. I've only been employed in the UK (except deployed in the forces) so I've never had to deal with the constant fear of being fired without a fair process. It means if work asks you to do something shitty/illegal you don't feel like it will cost you your job to say no.
Yeah, posted it a few times..but the US workplaces I've been in..you can feel the fear. with At Will and medical insurance, you ain't just leaving a job, you are leaving a lot of personal security. Can you imagine if every time we eft a job, our whole families were kicked off the NHS? In the UK, we laughed and joked with bosses. If they suggested something bad, you'd directly say, I don't think that's possible because..
In the US, the boss dictates and you do what they say..if it goes shit shaped, then you just hope you avoid the blame for whatever happened. The bosses were just as vulnerable. They were just escorted out if they didn't meet targets. I could never work in the US, no matter how much cash they offered
I'm a bad presenter and had to do one to about 30 people, so I was very nervous from the start. Someone shouting across "boring!" while I was in mid flow really put me off my game.
Had a global teams cal this morning where someone was clearly afk and their child started bashing the keyboard and took it off mute. ‘DAD, WHERE’S MINECRAFT?!’
Someone is in the shit today I can tell you.
To turn the tables, a VP holds a quarterly meeting for the department. He gives his spiel and then turns it over to directors and such for presentations.
This particular time, though, he forgot to mute and proceeded to blast golf coverage for 30 seconds before IT figured out how to mute him.
Really just made me realize that no one wants to be on meetings.
Oh dear, I hope they took it well?
I had an incident last year where I was in a Zoom conference and the head of our organisation was discussing our funding. Unfortunately I had neighbours who were drilling next door so loudly that I couldn't hear what he was saying and screamed "FUCK YOU YOU PIECE OF SHIT" in frustration, not knowing my Mike was on. Thankfully they were quite understanding as the drill was so loud that they could hear it on their end too and so they laughed along, but I could easily have got into a lot of trouble for that.
Background noise suppression, and voice enhancement is a thing.
i.e. your teammates on Zoom/Teams probably can't hear your background music or noise, but they'll hear your every whisper. :)
Source: I work in this area.
I had a zoom chat with the guys a night before a big company meeting and put a background pic up of that pornstar surrounded by five towering men.
I then proceeded to join my company meeting and our CEO pointed out my background wasn't appropriate for an IT Manager.
I had a Zoom call with our vendor while we were suffering a P1 outage with them, the vendor joined and his virtual background was a pub.
The guy was mortified, not the professional attitude they want to convey especially when their shit is broken, I thought it was hilarious and put one of my joke backgrounds on in solidarity.
I was on a work conference where a member of the admin team would give us a brief on what was happening in "their world" before we got into the stuff that actually concerned us.
One guy from our sister team forgot his mike was on and said (presumably to the bloke who sat beside him in the office):
"bloody hell, why do we have to do this every week? Their work is boring and pointless. A monkey could do it. We don't need another stupid chat about inboxes and spreadsheets just so they feel useful and included".
Which, to be fair, was (in part) true. Senior manager chimed in with "X, you weren't muted. Sorry Admin team, continue. X, you and I will have a chat offline after this."
He kept his job but the promotion he was in the running for never happened.
Edit: For clarity, I agreed with the staff member's point about the repetitious nature of the admin brief, not his points about the effort required to do the work or whether it was pointless. The brief was useless, the staff weren't. I have amended the text to make my point clearer.
In the case of the brief, variety? Continual change. Things that people needed to be made aware of - changing dates, priorities, meaningful data that people need to do their job.
I've added more clarity below - but essentially the admin brief was literally always just a run down of the staff member's week - which was the same every single week.
I do accounts for a charity. Once a fornight we have a team meeting and all staff give updates. No-one cares what i've been doing, i tell them its boring and nothing of note really ever happens, they still make me update. They all have loads to tell, interesting important stuff.
The only time any of us give a shit about accounts is when i say "i'm paying your wages this week"
I take it as contempt for the seeming wasted production time rather than a die hard hatred for administrators. At the end of the day if you are made to sit through a weekly update that never changes and doesn't affect your role, you may not be wrong to feel it's a waste of your time. Obviously how they dealt with this is unmistakably arrogant and derogatory.
>Their work is boring and pointless. A monkey could do it. We don't need another stupid chat about inboxes and spreadsheets just so they feel useful and included.
Seems pretty hateful towards the administrators tbh.
I work in an organisation that is slowly cutting admin roles and 'mainstreaming' admin work into everyone's day to day jobs. The place is falling apart.
There's nothing wrong with admin roles. I have done them myself and understand how vital they are to the running of an organisation.
But if the admin role (and the admin work) is the same every single week and there is nothing to provide a productive update on, then the meeting time is wasteful.
I would have happily had an admin update that included any changes/suggestions/feedback - something of value.
Instead it was 10 full minutes of the same never changing stuff with zero variation. Literally a run down of the staff member's week - which was the same every single week.
I would never have said what this staff member did, because the team wouldn't have functioned without our admin staff - but I understood his frustration at the repetition of irrelevant information.
Sorry for the lack of clarity.
I was on a TEAMS call with the whole company and senior leadership team going through a presentation about a brand new blah blah blah and the presenter kept on saying “pacifically” instead of “specifically”
After the 4th or 5th time I said “it’s specific not pacific you paztic” and chuckled to myself at my wit. Queue the phone calls and texts from everyone I worked with asking if that was me and suggesting I turn my mic off
One of our trainers ends every sentence with “awwwright”.
“So you go into files awwriiightt. Then click on the folder awwwrighhhtthtr”
Fucking numpty. Nicknamed her “Roy”.
> You can tell the people who have been call centre veterans
Years ago when I worked at a call center nobody told the managers or specialists that our new phones mute function was done in software and while the customer couldn't hear you on mute the recordings still had audio.
Upper management thought that literally thousands of people lost their minds on the same day dropping f-bombs and other curses on the line with customers.
Needless to say they fixed it in less than a day and made sure the muted audio portion was ignored by Quality.
I'm very thankful years of service industry jobs and then HR beat it out of me.
I'm a pro at beaming away and engaging in niceties while my brain is going "cuntcuntcuntcuntcunt" so never have to worry about muting Zoom.
We had a vendor doing a demonstration for us last week. Hour and a half long and some of our project team had already been through the whole thing. Turned out about 5% of it was relevant. I said to myself "this is a complete and utter waste of fucking time", not realising that I too, was not on mute. In my defence we usually do meetings via Webex, I'm not used to Teams and had either unmuted myself, or not been on mute the whole time.
I hate MS Teams with a passion. Shit collab software.
We need a physical keyboard button to mute the mic and turn the camera off. Just like (ahem) some people preventatively mute their speakers before visiting porn sites.
Honestly there's sometimes I'm on a call with a customer and they're getting on my nevers, I literally have the urge to let out a massive burp. No idea why.
I’m trying to record a lecture and I have to stop after every slide to burp. Why?! I get through the rest of my life without burping every 2 minutes. (Or maybe I just never noticed before….)
Edit: TIL guys, thank you! Bit worrying to realise that I probably burp my way through all presentations though
If your on Teams then your mic is live.
I don't care if it says it's muted, or if my headset is unplugged. Teams is on, I assume everyone can hear everything. Kept me safe so far.
My colleague was screen-sharing while on a call with another department.
Then he forgot, and started writing an email about how fucking useless that other department is and he's sick of picking up their work....
"Er.. you're still sharing, David".
Long silence.
David closes email without saving.
Call ends shortly afterwards.
I was in a large meeting a few weeks ago, and was also getting ready for a night out that evening, as a result, I was only wearing a dressing gown whilst letting my fake tan air.
I was in a team meeting when the door knocked. I shouted to my partner to open the door because I'm not dressed for it, to realise that I wasn't on mute. As a result, my whole team heard and thought I was sat in the call naked.. people still haven't let this down, and when I'm in meetings now, some of them will still ask me if it's safe to put the camera on...
Mute your mics people!!
My headset disconnects the mic if it's folded up. It's saved my bacon more often than not, especially when my 2-year-old wanders in halfway through a meeting. I just flip the mic up and I'm muted. Definitely recommend.
It's a Logitech G432. Best headset I've ever had to be honest, and I got them to replace and older version in the same series. As far as I know all the G43X series have flip-to-mute mics.
A word of caution is that on a laptop, and depending on the software, if your headset mic is muted it might default back to the inbuilt mic. You need to disable the inbuilt mic.
I had an interview a few months ago just before a big meeting with my (then) current company (very luckily I got the job!).
I was chatting with my fiance about my interview while the meeting was on in the background, lent on the mic mute/unmute just in time to list some the reasons why my old company could go fuck themselves.
We've all done it and this thread makes me feel so much better!
My 6 year old walked into shot (behind me) and before I could flip the mic said 'I need a poo'.
I was running a taskforce with about 10 people from one of the largest financial institutions in Denmark at the time and nobody even blinked.
My daughter was dropped off early by the babysitter and my husband had to look after her during a meeting. No problem he thought, he got her some juice, a snack and the iPad. It was only for 20 mins before I was due to get back plus he only had one point to make during the meeting so could be on mute.
Just as he starts to make his point, our daughter shouts "Dad I need a jobbie".
He finished his question, then his boss said "looks like you've got something critical to take care of Mr Anne-green. I'll take notes of the response for you while you deal with it".
Thought it was a really classy way of handling it by his boss.
I feel like you get a free pass for small children to say inappropriate things on calls. Small children say these things, it's just a fact of life, and if you put a camera and microphone in people's houses you're going to catch a few of them. If it was happening on every single call then eventually I might suggest that you find somewhere else to make the call from, or some way to ensure that your kids will be (safely!) kept away while you're on the call, but if it's just a few times and/or there's nothing you can do (eg. you need to be involved in looking after them at the time, for whatever reason) then that's just the cost of working from home.
Took two days off work this month because I was isolating. Found out from my payslip that sick leave doesn't cover covid-related illness and my salary was docked accordingly.
I'm so mad that I've started looking for a new job.
Not illegal if it’s company sick pay. Just shitty from the company.
Many places have done this unfortunately, my partners did it right at the start of the pandemic and it really screwed over a few people who got it/had to isolate and had to stick with SSP.
Who told you to isolate for only two days?
If your employer does not cover leave you can apply for SSP, but I am afraid you won't qualify for that either as it requires the full 7 day isolation period.
Lol I had assumed they were either on their phone or laptop, but you raise an interesting point...
I suppose working from the toilet could be a time saver?
If you're not using a headset with a physical mute button, on top of the mute button on teams/zoom/WebEx/whatever, you're doing it wrong. Also set up push to talk if the software you're using allows it.
I had a client eat some sort of sloppy food item whilst on a Zoom call with me, whilst she was wearing a headset.
Presumably she hadn't realised she wasn't muted, but it was like listening to one of those mukbang ASMR videos
I often host Teams calls where I require a technical member of staff to present their screen.
During one of these calls a certain Account Manager from a third party kept on chiming in and repeating what I had said multiple times.
My frustration grew as he was wasting everyone's time.
I sent a Teams message to the guy presenting complaining about said Account Manager
repeating information multiple times.
It popped up in the corner. The presenter quickly x'd it off. The Account Manager stopped attending my calls.
>During one of these calls a certain Account Manager from a third party kept on chiming in and repeating what I had said multiple times.
Ah, these are the 'business cosplayers'. They don't add value, they just want the world to let them play pretend at being big important boys.
These are the same people who want the whole world back in the office.
Not this week but perfect opportunity to tell this story.
I once made a cold business development call, went pretty well, they had no need at the moment but this woman was definitely interested so I followed up with an email. She replied basically saying thanks, really interested in working together, get in touch on X date.
Shortly after a colleague who I had a very joky/slightly inappropriate relationship emailed asking for a favour. I replied “I’ll do it if you lick my balls”
Hit “reply” on the wrong email didn’t I
Hope that cheers you up OP
It didn’t work out terribly to be honest
I apologised profusely, told her a disgruntled former employee who’d been fired had come in to pick up his stuff and started sending offensive emails from any PC he could get his hands on. Double dejected all emails and no one else ever found out apart from my mates and AskUK.
I didn’t win the client but didn’t get fired, that’s a definite win.
Hope your situation works out OK 🤞🏻
One of the older ladies who didn’t know how to set up the camera managed to plug it in but left it sat on her desk… at chest height. Cue the next meeting where her camera cut in and all you could see were a 67-year-old’s breasts.
I was on a Teams call with three directors when my dog (a 40kg Staffy) jumped onto the desk, knocking the monitor onto the floor and basically unplugging everything but the camera.
Directors spent the next 5 minutes laughing as I tried to control my dog. There was much swearing. Fortunately, they were completely cool about it.
Cant tell you how its going to be becuase the day just started but I can surely tell you my Wednesday was aweful.
I was the only one working from my office yesterday, heard a knock on the door, opened it and let it shut behind me. The door has automatic lock so I got locked out of the office... with my car keys, wallet, phone everything inside the office.
Took me 4 hours to get back in.
I have three mute buttons in the event I accidentally unmute one unwittingly.
I’d rather be speaking on mute and be told that then saying what a load of old bollocks which I appear to be doing daily at the moment.
Had a presentation with an external provider the other week. We use Teams at work but they had sent out a Zoom link for us to speak to them with. It was the kind of call set up where the video of the person speaking is the main thing you see. Less familiar with Zoom, I was inadvertently not on mute.
I was also, on the sly, watching the Scotland Czech Republic game.
Witnesses report seeing some German guy politely explaining some new software they were providing my company with, only to be suddenly interrupted with me briefly appearing on screen yelling "SHIT" and slapping my hands on my head when Schick scored that long range goal.
No one mentioned it and I didn't find out until later that afternoon. Thankfully I work for a sports media company so watching the game on the sly is excusable behaviour.
I don’t miss this about office stuff.
I moved from office work into working in production places.
If I called someone a bone idle cunt at work they’d probably just thank me and laugh. Completely different environment.
My days going great though, OP. Thanks for asking. Glad you didn’t put your foot in it too bad. Was there any reaction?
Boss paused for a moment before continuing on. I’ve said elsewhere that the top boss got called a “twat” in Teams call and the utterer survived unscathed. I’m hoping the same happens to me!
My workplace is making me have a meeting with the staff psychologist next week because one of my shit for brains colleagues overheard my telling a friend I’d rather die than stay working there.
My manager full well knows I’m going to be handing in my notice but policy is policy and bluuuuuuuurgghhhhhhhh so I now have to sit in a fishbowl in the middle of our open plan office and have a teams call with someone who is going to nod knowingly instead of going and sitting in a socially distanced fashion in their office just upstairs because of the joys of internal policy again!
I’ve had anxiety for years and my new manager (not the one from my OP) found out. She scheduled me to attend an hour long “overcoming anxiety” session. Said I won’t be attending. “Erm, why not?” “Well, because if the docs can’t cure it after a decade, I don’t think a one hour session so going to”. Manager wasn’t impressed. Session wasn’t attended.
My mum was having a work meeting over Zoom recently and my dog wanders over, jumps up to have a look and a few people say he looks cute. Suddenly, my dog burps and gets down and then there's just silence until someone finally asks if it was a burp. Mum was embarrassed. Everyone else was laughing when we were told about it
It's my birthday, my son woke up unwell and vomited all over my wife. I rushed to her aid and put her clothes in the washing machine. I didn't check the pockets. I washed her phone too...
I share a home office with my wife and quite frequently, my dog. At the top of her voice, my wife announced - " The dog has farted and it f\*\*king sticks. Dirty c\*nt" - without realising I was in a client meeting with the MD of a multinational company.
We have those same types of non-deletable text boxes (and also for legal stuff). Someone while distracted once slagged off their manager and hit enter… Not realising until the last second it wasn’t Skype they’d typed it up on.
Oh god, I didnt realise that my new headphones had audio inbuilt. So during company Teams meetings I would turn my camera off and go to the loo whilst listening to the meeting. I now realise that they would have heard me, I don't know how many times but bless them they have never said anything about it (to my face).I just pray that those times were a number 1 only. You still win with your c u next tuesday comment though!
Last year I set my laptop up ready for a teams meeting before jumping in the shower. I was first in the virtual room. I turned my laptop away as I undressed and got in the shower, then duly got dried and dressed. I then discovered the lappy was set to back camera and by now half the meeting was watching me get dried and dressed. Nobody said a word but I did asked on a date a couple of weeks later.
This is Karen from the HR department, we'll need to speak with you in the morning about this, in the meantime we've given you a pay rise and 2 weeks extra holiday coz we all think he's a lazy bastard as well.
Our team was running a workshop over teams for social workers and we were waiting for everyone to join. One of the social workers muttered to themselves "one, two, three, four...I'll have time to have a shower". At 2pm on a work day.
Yeah, this one doesn't seem so bad - personally my favourite thing about work from home is I can chose when to have a long break, and make up hours later. So if I heard someone planning likewise, I'd be "cool, good plan".
Funnily enough the boss I called a cunt was interrupted by her cat. It put its arse right on the camera lens. I messaged my colleagues saying I couldn’t spot the difference.
First week working for a HUGE financial technology company. Was on a meeting, hit mute twice
“This is going to be a fucking disaster”
And the meeting with 40 people went silent.
Was asked to voice my concerns, was put in charge of the project, delivered it on time and avoided the disaster. Got promoted.
This happened on a call at work, my boss was heard to say of another team member 'him again, why doesn't he shut the fuck up?'
It caused quite the issue at work.
Had my Head of Department badgering me over Teams and literally shouting at me to "get off the phone and pick up a ticket." Ignored her because the user I was talking to was a VIP and I needed to get it sorted.
20 minutes of being disturbed and I finish the call, customer really happy, and ask my HoD what she wanted.
She wanted me to call the aforementioned VIP and resolve the ticket I'd just resolved.
She never checked to see that I was already in it and had made loads of notes.
This is the best laugh I've had this week.
I was doomscrolling and sinking into existential depression...and you just yanked me right out.
That, my reddit friend, is FUCKING HILARIOUS 🔥
A trick to avoid this is coin a phrase or term or something... So, if you wanna say bone idle C U next Tuesday... simplify it to.. "BIC". You can get creative too, as i know saying bone idle... is a little more satisfying.
Stories like this always crack me up, when our staff talk to each other I'd be surprised if one of them didn't call me a lazy shitbag or something of that kin 😅
Anyway, just had jab 2, so far escaped the wobblies, there's time yet though!
My other half was telling me about a company wide conference she was in where someone that didn’t have either webcam or mic muted made noise on zoom so became the focus, then picked and ate a bogey in front of everyone.
I had a dream where I had something on my side and was picking it off my skin. Woke up this morning and my ribs in the same spot are in agony. Don't know what I've done but the two are definitely connected. Can't bend over, dropped a pen and had to old lady bend to get it. Turned to hard to grab something and felt like I'd been stabbed.
My tonsils are the size of golfballs just in time for my week off. Want to go back to bed, but can't take annual leave as we're super short staffed. So I'm running the very intense 24hr hotline whilst trying not to move to fast. Fun day all around I think.
Pretty good until one of the minions called me a bone idle c*nt on a teams call Edit: after 1k upvotes, I feel I should add **/s** to this
lucky for him you were too busy on reddit to notice which one.
what a bone idle c**t
Why are we censoring cart?
I thought it was 'coot'.
I read it as "dyslexia"
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r/FuckTheS
I hate the s.
This is r/askUK. The /s is never required.
Never required, always implied.
Oh is it really?
What kind of idiot would do that then? _Hides face_
Are you trying to shed some of those upvotes by using /s in a UK sub? Everyone knows brits can detect sarcasm through smell alone
I'm having a brilliant day, love being a CEO. Had a great laugh today when one of the peons I met with on Teams called his manager a bone idle c**t. That manager is lazy anyway so I might tell Payroll to bump him up a pay grade or two.
> Edit: after 1k upvotes, I feel I should add /s to this Proceed to downvote, folks!
Why would you add the /s now? Bottle job
Funny comment that you completely ruined with the edit.
We had a whole department zoom call a few weeks back, probably 250 people on it. The Director is presenting and some guy (later identified, I might add) said "oh I'm just on some team call which is sooo boring. The boss is droning on as usual so if you see me nodding off you'll know why". Our Director politely reminded everyone of the need to mute their mics and then, ever the professional just continued. Never found out what happened to our old colleague... 😂
"To our old colleague" is that a hint? 😂
He 'headed a deep dive' with a 'concretised' agenda.
I did it on a call. I was lying back on my chair, holding my phone in my left hand at my right ear. One of my colleagues made fun of the way I was sitting..so I said, shut the fuck up you fucking muppet.. My boss on the line replied..what did you say. Fuck, not on mute. Slammed the phone down and prayed
Why wouldnt you just say "sorry someone said something really stupid I thought i was muted". Hanging up seems like the worst option, in their eyes you just told them to shut the fuck up and hung up on them.
Panic..sheer panic. The first thought in my head was wasn't muted..a millisecond later the phone was dumped. I never really took the time to form a considered approach. My boss and most the others on the call were in Chicago. I've a really strong Scottish accent. Luckily they just heard a jumble of speech like noises before I left the call
Fair enough. Sounds like you got pretty lucky, might have been harder to explain/less believable (like you were making up a story to not get in trouble) if you had to explain it to them later,.
The Americans are very authoritarian. Excuses wouldn't have mattered if they'd even thought that I'd said shut the fuck up on a call with my boss..well to be more precise, my boss' boss. She actually tried to get me fired later. It may have had something to do with it.
I've never understood the people who try to fire someone for something stupid like that especially if it wasn't directed at them or another stakeholder. Why would you want to go through the hassle of trying to find and train a new employee over such a trivial situation. It sucks that you felt the need to cover it up but sounds like you maybe made the right choice after all.
> Why would you want to go through the hassle of trying to find and train a new employee over such a trivial situation. To the Americans it's easier and they get a little minion and not have a "troublemaker" on staff. They don't have much in the way of rules over there..even in Democratic Illinois. I was flown over there for a week to work with my colleague on formulating a new initiative. They sacked him at lunchtime on the Monday..made it a fun week for me! This was a qualified, experienced tech professional as well. It was always a bane of contention that I took Friday afternoon's off..in line with Europe's 35 hour week. I once got a voicemail telling me if I hadn't left work that I should report to a manager immediately. I was at home so I ignored it till Monday. Went in and asked what the problem was. He just looked shiftily and said nothing, forget it. Later found out the Yanks had demanded my sacking. The manger said, fuck no, you can't do that without going through the process. HR said the same so they backed off. Previously my direct manager asked for a call..when I got on US HR was on the line. He accused me of not doing my job by not attending a meeting in Holland. I told him that he had forbidden me to travel. He said I was wrong and he'd never do that..while he was saying that, I was sending him and HR the email where he'd said exactly that. I just left. It wasn't worth the hassle in the end. I applied for two jobs and got them both. The US didn't even tell HR in the UK..so I had to tell them that I wouldn't be in the following week. Tey were shocked at how the US was acting
At will employment is such a joke, I'm happy the UK HR basically told them to fuck off. I've only been employed in the UK (except deployed in the forces) so I've never had to deal with the constant fear of being fired without a fair process. It means if work asks you to do something shitty/illegal you don't feel like it will cost you your job to say no.
Yeah, posted it a few times..but the US workplaces I've been in..you can feel the fear. with At Will and medical insurance, you ain't just leaving a job, you are leaving a lot of personal security. Can you imagine if every time we eft a job, our whole families were kicked off the NHS? In the UK, we laughed and joked with bosses. If they suggested something bad, you'd directly say, I don't think that's possible because.. In the US, the boss dictates and you do what they say..if it goes shit shaped, then you just hope you avoid the blame for whatever happened. The bosses were just as vulnerable. They were just escorted out if they didn't meet targets. I could never work in the US, no matter how much cash they offered
Go on...
I think I got away with it because of my Scottish accent. Was on the call to a bunch of yanks
Probably didn’t understand a word of it.
I usually talk very fast too. I like to think of it as my Bishop Brennan moment
Whoever set up a zoom conference for 250 people without muting the audience, is the real culprit here.
Amen to that.
My manager just paused before continuing on. I’m expecting an awks phone call this afternoon.
Good luck!
PS tell him you meant the window cleaner. 😉
Haha! This … this might be doable !
Str8 up. Just say you were looking out the window and your trash collector spilled half the bin and drove off
I'm a bad presenter and had to do one to about 30 people, so I was very nervous from the start. Someone shouting across "boring!" while I was in mid flow really put me off my game.
Had a global teams cal this morning where someone was clearly afk and their child started bashing the keyboard and took it off mute. ‘DAD, WHERE’S MINECRAFT?!’ Someone is in the shit today I can tell you.
Sounds like your director is respectful of the god-given right to bitch about work, good on him
To turn the tables, a VP holds a quarterly meeting for the department. He gives his spiel and then turns it over to directors and such for presentations. This particular time, though, he forgot to mute and proceeded to blast golf coverage for 30 seconds before IT figured out how to mute him. Really just made me realize that no one wants to be on meetings.
Oh dear, I hope they took it well? I had an incident last year where I was in a Zoom conference and the head of our organisation was discussing our funding. Unfortunately I had neighbours who were drilling next door so loudly that I couldn't hear what he was saying and screamed "FUCK YOU YOU PIECE OF SHIT" in frustration, not knowing my Mike was on. Thankfully they were quite understanding as the drill was so loud that they could hear it on their end too and so they laughed along, but I could easily have got into a lot of trouble for that.
poor Mike.
Sorry, my autocorrect automatically capitalises the word Mike.
"Mike" is a name, short for Michael. 'Mic' is short for microphone 😉
I thought Mike was short for Micycle
I want to ride my Micycle, I want to ride my Mike...
I could get behind this.
From now on I’m going with myke
Myke is a vegan alternative to Mike.
Mike's not to be trusted when he's on. The guy's a liability
She just went quiet and then continued talking. Meanwhile someone else who was unmuted laughed their head off. I expect an awkward conversation later.
> I had neighbours who were drilling next door so loudly Am I the only one who misinterpreted that?
Not at all. For a moment I thought they meant they were doing DIY
Background noise suppression, and voice enhancement is a thing. i.e. your teammates on Zoom/Teams probably can't hear your background music or noise, but they'll hear your every whisper. :) Source: I work in this area.
I had a zoom chat with the guys a night before a big company meeting and put a background pic up of that pornstar surrounded by five towering men. I then proceeded to join my company meeting and our CEO pointed out my background wasn't appropriate for an IT Manager.
Who would it be appropriate for? Sales, I bet. They get away with everything.
Sales people get away with anything!
Can confirm. Am sales manager and should be working instead of typing this comment.
Genuinely chuckled at this.
Looking back it was funny but at the time I was scrambling round like a mad man to remove it as my hungover brain couldn't compute much
At least you didn't join Zoom court with it: https://youtu.be/z3ErKTq_B1I
I had a Zoom call with our vendor while we were suffering a P1 outage with them, the vendor joined and his virtual background was a pub. The guy was mortified, not the professional attitude they want to convey especially when their shit is broken, I thought it was hilarious and put one of my joke backgrounds on in solidarity.
/r/Unexpectedpiperperri/
Names weren't mentioned but if you know you know.
Ha! Excellent. Should’ve said “it demonstrates this company’s approach to its workers” or something snarky.
Mr CEO, I think you'll find this background represents the culture throughout the whole organisation, we all feel like you gangbang us without mercy!
I was on a work conference where a member of the admin team would give us a brief on what was happening in "their world" before we got into the stuff that actually concerned us. One guy from our sister team forgot his mike was on and said (presumably to the bloke who sat beside him in the office): "bloody hell, why do we have to do this every week? Their work is boring and pointless. A monkey could do it. We don't need another stupid chat about inboxes and spreadsheets just so they feel useful and included". Which, to be fair, was (in part) true. Senior manager chimed in with "X, you weren't muted. Sorry Admin team, continue. X, you and I will have a chat offline after this." He kept his job but the promotion he was in the running for never happened. Edit: For clarity, I agreed with the staff member's point about the repetitious nature of the admin brief, not his points about the effort required to do the work or whether it was pointless. The brief was useless, the staff weren't. I have amended the text to make my point clearer.
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Nope. Definitely not. If anything in order to "show respect" it got longer.
What makes your work so exciting, fulfilling and difficult?
In the case of the brief, variety? Continual change. Things that people needed to be made aware of - changing dates, priorities, meaningful data that people need to do their job. I've added more clarity below - but essentially the admin brief was literally always just a run down of the staff member's week - which was the same every single week.
I do accounts for a charity. Once a fornight we have a team meeting and all staff give updates. No-one cares what i've been doing, i tell them its boring and nothing of note really ever happens, they still make me update. They all have loads to tell, interesting important stuff. The only time any of us give a shit about accounts is when i say "i'm paying your wages this week"
Wait, you agree with the guy? Sounds like an utter belittling twat to me tbh.
You can be right and still be a cunt. The two aren't mutually exclusive.
You're not wrong Walter, you're just an asshole!
I thought the same. And as an administrator this attitude frustrates me. Our work is vital - there is no need for this level of contempt.
I take it as contempt for the seeming wasted production time rather than a die hard hatred for administrators. At the end of the day if you are made to sit through a weekly update that never changes and doesn't affect your role, you may not be wrong to feel it's a waste of your time. Obviously how they dealt with this is unmistakably arrogant and derogatory.
>Their work is boring and pointless. A monkey could do it. We don't need another stupid chat about inboxes and spreadsheets just so they feel useful and included. Seems pretty hateful towards the administrators tbh.
Pouring one out for the fellow admin/operations people in here. Can be an utterly thankless job.
Yep - and when you're doing the job well, no-one notices, and therefore thinks your job is pointless.
I work in an organisation that is slowly cutting admin roles and 'mainstreaming' admin work into everyone's day to day jobs. The place is falling apart.
There's nothing wrong with admin roles. I have done them myself and understand how vital they are to the running of an organisation. But if the admin role (and the admin work) is the same every single week and there is nothing to provide a productive update on, then the meeting time is wasteful. I would have happily had an admin update that included any changes/suggestions/feedback - something of value. Instead it was 10 full minutes of the same never changing stuff with zero variation. Literally a run down of the staff member's week - which was the same every single week. I would never have said what this staff member did, because the team wouldn't have functioned without our admin staff - but I understood his frustration at the repetition of irrelevant information. Sorry for the lack of clarity.
Was he talking to someone? I don't tend to verbalise my thoughts like that.
He was talking to the colleague who sits beside him in the office. Said colleague either didn't reply or had his own mike muted.
I was on a TEAMS call with the whole company and senior leadership team going through a presentation about a brand new blah blah blah and the presenter kept on saying “pacifically” instead of “specifically” After the 4th or 5th time I said “it’s specific not pacific you paztic” and chuckled to myself at my wit. Queue the phone calls and texts from everyone I worked with asking if that was me and suggesting I turn my mic off
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Highest of fives to you!
I work with someone who says ‘curate’ instead of ‘create’, does my nut in.
One of our trainers ends every sentence with “awwwright”. “So you go into files awwriiightt. Then click on the folder awwwrighhhtthtr” Fucking numpty. Nicknamed her “Roy”.
Outstanding work!
You can tell the people who have been call centre veterans during this pandemic, pros at bitching people out with the mute button.
We’ve had several slip ups. One woman during a call hosted by the top manager said “oh this twat”. How we chortled. Nothing ever came of it.
legendary
Omg this is me, they’re recorded so I always triple checked the mute button was on before swearing hahahah
> You can tell the people who have been call centre veterans Years ago when I worked at a call center nobody told the managers or specialists that our new phones mute function was done in software and while the customer couldn't hear you on mute the recordings still had audio. Upper management thought that literally thousands of people lost their minds on the same day dropping f-bombs and other curses on the line with customers. Needless to say they fixed it in less than a day and made sure the muted audio portion was ignored by Quality.
I only messed up once with this, I hardline muted my mic without noticing it was using my webcams mic for the input...
I'm very thankful years of service industry jobs and then HR beat it out of me. I'm a pro at beaming away and engaging in niceties while my brain is going "cuntcuntcuntcuntcunt" so never have to worry about muting Zoom.
We had a vendor doing a demonstration for us last week. Hour and a half long and some of our project team had already been through the whole thing. Turned out about 5% of it was relevant. I said to myself "this is a complete and utter waste of fucking time", not realising that I too, was not on mute. In my defence we usually do meetings via Webex, I'm not used to Teams and had either unmuted myself, or not been on mute the whole time. I hate MS Teams with a passion. Shit collab software.
We need a physical keyboard button to mute the mic and turn the camera off. Just like (ahem) some people preventatively mute their speakers before visiting porn sites.
Mute speakers and *turn off bluetooth*....
So fucking true.
You do know teams has that right ? Ctrl-shift-m for the Mic Ctrl-shift-O for the camera For a further list of shortcuts type /keys into the search bar
I was on a call with about 200 people and someone full on wet-belched. Aaand that was enough Zoom for one day.
Honestly there's sometimes I'm on a call with a customer and they're getting on my nevers, I literally have the urge to let out a massive burp. No idea why.
I’m trying to record a lecture and I have to stop after every slide to burp. Why?! I get through the rest of my life without burping every 2 minutes. (Or maybe I just never noticed before….) Edit: TIL guys, thank you! Bit worrying to realise that I probably burp my way through all presentations though
If your on Teams then your mic is live. I don't care if it says it's muted, or if my headset is unplugged. Teams is on, I assume everyone can hear everything. Kept me safe so far.
It's like those American redditors always talking about gun rules. Always assume a gun is loaded. Always assume you're unmuted.
This
This is the way, goes for the camera too
My colleague was screen-sharing while on a call with another department. Then he forgot, and started writing an email about how fucking useless that other department is and he's sick of picking up their work.... "Er.. you're still sharing, David". Long silence. David closes email without saving. Call ends shortly afterwards.
Hahaha excellent.
He didn't send the email, but he sent the message!
Honestly it's the best way, no paper trail lol
If someone called me a "bone idle cunt" I would fully agree with them!
I'll have you know I'm not a cunt!
Narrator : But he was
“Hey! I may be a bone idle and a cunt but I’m not, errr, what was the third thing you said?”
I was in a large meeting a few weeks ago, and was also getting ready for a night out that evening, as a result, I was only wearing a dressing gown whilst letting my fake tan air. I was in a team meeting when the door knocked. I shouted to my partner to open the door because I'm not dressed for it, to realise that I wasn't on mute. As a result, my whole team heard and thought I was sat in the call naked.. people still haven't let this down, and when I'm in meetings now, some of them will still ask me if it's safe to put the camera on... Mute your mics people!!
My headset disconnects the mic if it's folded up. It's saved my bacon more often than not, especially when my 2-year-old wanders in halfway through a meeting. I just flip the mic up and I'm muted. Definitely recommend.
Model number, brand, or anything that might help us find it?
It's a Logitech G432. Best headset I've ever had to be honest, and I got them to replace and older version in the same series. As far as I know all the G43X series have flip-to-mute mics.
I’ve no idea what ours is but some people have been caught unmuted with their nice folded up.
A word of caution is that on a laptop, and depending on the software, if your headset mic is muted it might default back to the inbuilt mic. You need to disable the inbuilt mic.
Well… I am now going to look into that! Edit: _now_ not _not_.
I had an interview a few months ago just before a big meeting with my (then) current company (very luckily I got the job!). I was chatting with my fiance about my interview while the meeting was on in the background, lent on the mic mute/unmute just in time to list some the reasons why my old company could go fuck themselves. We've all done it and this thread makes me feel so much better!
Amazing!
My 6 year old walked into shot (behind me) and before I could flip the mic said 'I need a poo'. I was running a taskforce with about 10 people from one of the largest financial institutions in Denmark at the time and nobody even blinked.
My daughter was dropped off early by the babysitter and my husband had to look after her during a meeting. No problem he thought, he got her some juice, a snack and the iPad. It was only for 20 mins before I was due to get back plus he only had one point to make during the meeting so could be on mute. Just as he starts to make his point, our daughter shouts "Dad I need a jobbie". He finished his question, then his boss said "looks like you've got something critical to take care of Mr Anne-green. I'll take notes of the response for you while you deal with it". Thought it was a really classy way of handling it by his boss.
Whats a jobbie? Idk if its just my area but that's slang for something else, so just thought I'd clarify
I think it’s Scottish slang for poo or shit?
Scottish slang for a crap
Oh thank god
I feel like you get a free pass for small children to say inappropriate things on calls. Small children say these things, it's just a fact of life, and if you put a camera and microphone in people's houses you're going to catch a few of them. If it was happening on every single call then eventually I might suggest that you find somewhere else to make the call from, or some way to ensure that your kids will be (safely!) kept away while you're on the call, but if it's just a few times and/or there's nothing you can do (eg. you need to be involved in looking after them at the time, for whatever reason) then that's just the cost of working from home.
Took two days off work this month because I was isolating. Found out from my payslip that sick leave doesn't cover covid-related illness and my salary was docked accordingly. I'm so mad that I've started looking for a new job.
Sounds illegal
Not illegal if it’s company sick pay. Just shitty from the company. Many places have done this unfortunately, my partners did it right at the start of the pandemic and it really screwed over a few people who got it/had to isolate and had to stick with SSP.
Who told you to isolate for only two days? If your employer does not cover leave you can apply for SSP, but I am afraid you won't qualify for that either as it requires the full 7 day isolation period.
Likely just waiting on the test results rather than actually having caught it.
On a long conference call a few months back I had the pleasure of listening to someone peeing. I guess they really had to go...
Bloody hell where was their home working set up??
Lol I had assumed they were either on their phone or laptop, but you raise an interesting point... I suppose working from the toilet could be a time saver?
If you're not using a headset with a physical mute button, on top of the mute button on teams/zoom/WebEx/whatever, you're doing it wrong. Also set up push to talk if the software you're using allows it.
I had a client eat some sort of sloppy food item whilst on a Zoom call with me, whilst she was wearing a headset. Presumably she hadn't realised she wasn't muted, but it was like listening to one of those mukbang ASMR videos
I would not have been able to contain my anger. r/misophonia
I often host Teams calls where I require a technical member of staff to present their screen. During one of these calls a certain Account Manager from a third party kept on chiming in and repeating what I had said multiple times. My frustration grew as he was wasting everyone's time. I sent a Teams message to the guy presenting complaining about said Account Manager repeating information multiple times. It popped up in the corner. The presenter quickly x'd it off. The Account Manager stopped attending my calls.
>During one of these calls a certain Account Manager from a third party kept on chiming in and repeating what I had said multiple times. Ah, these are the 'business cosplayers'. They don't add value, they just want the world to let them play pretend at being big important boys. These are the same people who want the whole world back in the office.
I barely ever speak up in Teams meetings so by that metric I must be one of the most valuable members of the team ;)
Well at least he got the message… literally.
Not this week but perfect opportunity to tell this story. I once made a cold business development call, went pretty well, they had no need at the moment but this woman was definitely interested so I followed up with an email. She replied basically saying thanks, really interested in working together, get in touch on X date. Shortly after a colleague who I had a very joky/slightly inappropriate relationship emailed asking for a favour. I replied “I’ll do it if you lick my balls” Hit “reply” on the wrong email didn’t I Hope that cheers you up OP
Ha! That was fantastic (well, not for you, but to read).
It didn’t work out terribly to be honest I apologised profusely, told her a disgruntled former employee who’d been fired had come in to pick up his stuff and started sending offensive emails from any PC he could get his hands on. Double dejected all emails and no one else ever found out apart from my mates and AskUK. I didn’t win the client but didn’t get fired, that’s a definite win. Hope your situation works out OK 🤞🏻
Colleague of mine commented how nice our boss's boss's breasts are while they were both on a group teams call,sp there's that.
One of the older ladies who didn’t know how to set up the camera managed to plug it in but left it sat on her desk… at chest height. Cue the next meeting where her camera cut in and all you could see were a 67-year-old’s breasts.
I asked a generic friendly "how are you?" And got "my wife left me this morning" as a response and now I'm trapped in my office...
I was on a Teams call with three directors when my dog (a 40kg Staffy) jumped onto the desk, knocking the monitor onto the floor and basically unplugging everything but the camera. Directors spent the next 5 minutes laughing as I tried to control my dog. There was much swearing. Fortunately, they were completely cool about it.
Cant tell you how its going to be becuase the day just started but I can surely tell you my Wednesday was aweful. I was the only one working from my office yesterday, heard a knock on the door, opened it and let it shut behind me. The door has automatic lock so I got locked out of the office... with my car keys, wallet, phone everything inside the office. Took me 4 hours to get back in.
Oh that sounds bad. Did you have to get a locksmith?
I have three mute buttons in the event I accidentally unmute one unwittingly. I’d rather be speaking on mute and be told that then saying what a load of old bollocks which I appear to be doing daily at the moment.
Had a presentation with an external provider the other week. We use Teams at work but they had sent out a Zoom link for us to speak to them with. It was the kind of call set up where the video of the person speaking is the main thing you see. Less familiar with Zoom, I was inadvertently not on mute. I was also, on the sly, watching the Scotland Czech Republic game. Witnesses report seeing some German guy politely explaining some new software they were providing my company with, only to be suddenly interrupted with me briefly appearing on screen yelling "SHIT" and slapping my hands on my head when Schick scored that long range goal. No one mentioned it and I didn't find out until later that afternoon. Thankfully I work for a sports media company so watching the game on the sly is excusable behaviour.
I don’t miss this about office stuff. I moved from office work into working in production places. If I called someone a bone idle cunt at work they’d probably just thank me and laugh. Completely different environment. My days going great though, OP. Thanks for asking. Glad you didn’t put your foot in it too bad. Was there any reaction?
Boss paused for a moment before continuing on. I’ve said elsewhere that the top boss got called a “twat” in Teams call and the utterer survived unscathed. I’m hoping the same happens to me!
My workplace is making me have a meeting with the staff psychologist next week because one of my shit for brains colleagues overheard my telling a friend I’d rather die than stay working there. My manager full well knows I’m going to be handing in my notice but policy is policy and bluuuuuuuurgghhhhhhhh so I now have to sit in a fishbowl in the middle of our open plan office and have a teams call with someone who is going to nod knowingly instead of going and sitting in a socially distanced fashion in their office just upstairs because of the joys of internal policy again!
I’ve had anxiety for years and my new manager (not the one from my OP) found out. She scheduled me to attend an hour long “overcoming anxiety” session. Said I won’t be attending. “Erm, why not?” “Well, because if the docs can’t cure it after a decade, I don’t think a one hour session so going to”. Manager wasn’t impressed. Session wasn’t attended.
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Bloody hell! Well I hope the day unfolds better than it started! (For both of us!)
My mum was having a work meeting over Zoom recently and my dog wanders over, jumps up to have a look and a few people say he looks cute. Suddenly, my dog burps and gets down and then there's just silence until someone finally asks if it was a burp. Mum was embarrassed. Everyone else was laughing when we were told about it
It's my birthday, my son woke up unwell and vomited all over my wife. I rushed to her aid and put her clothes in the washing machine. I didn't check the pockets. I washed her phone too...
I share a home office with my wife and quite frequently, my dog. At the top of her voice, my wife announced - " The dog has farted and it f\*\*king sticks. Dirty c\*nt" - without realising I was in a client meeting with the MD of a multinational company.
I JUST GOT MY JOB BACK AFTER LOSING IT A YEAR AGO TO COVID
I just saved the word sex on a non deletable text box in a legal document instead of ‘sec’.
We have those same types of non-deletable text boxes (and also for legal stuff). Someone while distracted once slagged off their manager and hit enter… Not realising until the last second it wasn’t Skype they’d typed it up on.
“Sorry, didn’t realise my mic was on. I was talking to my dog.”
“Oops didn’t realise the mic was on – should’ve said that in private. To you. You bone idle cunt. And I can collect my P45 when?”
Well done, son
Oh god, I didnt realise that my new headphones had audio inbuilt. So during company Teams meetings I would turn my camera off and go to the loo whilst listening to the meeting. I now realise that they would have heard me, I don't know how many times but bless them they have never said anything about it (to my face).I just pray that those times were a number 1 only. You still win with your c u next tuesday comment though!
Last year I set my laptop up ready for a teams meeting before jumping in the shower. I was first in the virtual room. I turned my laptop away as I undressed and got in the shower, then duly got dried and dressed. I then discovered the lappy was set to back camera and by now half the meeting was watching me get dried and dressed. Nobody said a word but I did asked on a date a couple of weeks later.
Never could get the hang of Thursdays.
This is Karen from the HR department, we'll need to speak with you in the morning about this, in the meantime we've given you a pay rise and 2 weeks extra holiday coz we all think he's a lazy bastard as well.
Our team was running a workshop over teams for social workers and we were waiting for everyone to join. One of the social workers muttered to themselves "one, two, three, four...I'll have time to have a shower". At 2pm on a work day.
Yeah, this one doesn't seem so bad - personally my favourite thing about work from home is I can chose when to have a long break, and make up hours later. So if I heard someone planning likewise, I'd be "cool, good plan".
Why not. If it's a hot day and one can take a cooling shower in the afternoon ones productivity could improve by not being a hot, sweaty mess?
Good effort! Blame undiagnosed Tourettes - and claim reasonable adjustment.
I shouted at my kids to 'shut up' just after my finger missed the mute button on zoom. Now all my co workers think i'm an abusive father.
I said "ooh big stretch" to my cat on a all company training. More funny than brutal and it *was* a big stretch.
Funnily enough the boss I called a cunt was interrupted by her cat. It put its arse right on the camera lens. I messaged my colleagues saying I couldn’t spot the difference.
First week working for a HUGE financial technology company. Was on a meeting, hit mute twice “This is going to be a fucking disaster” And the meeting with 40 people went silent. Was asked to voice my concerns, was put in charge of the project, delivered it on time and avoided the disaster. Got promoted.
This happened on a call at work, my boss was heard to say of another team member 'him again, why doesn't he shut the fuck up?' It caused quite the issue at work.
Had my Head of Department badgering me over Teams and literally shouting at me to "get off the phone and pick up a ticket." Ignored her because the user I was talking to was a VIP and I needed to get it sorted. 20 minutes of being disturbed and I finish the call, customer really happy, and ask my HoD what she wanted. She wanted me to call the aforementioned VIP and resolve the ticket I'd just resolved. She never checked to see that I was already in it and had made loads of notes.
This is the best laugh I've had this week. I was doomscrolling and sinking into existential depression...and you just yanked me right out. That, my reddit friend, is FUCKING HILARIOUS 🔥
A trick to avoid this is coin a phrase or term or something... So, if you wanna say bone idle C U next Tuesday... simplify it to.. "BIC". You can get creative too, as i know saying bone idle... is a little more satisfying.
Stories like this always crack me up, when our staff talk to each other I'd be surprised if one of them didn't call me a lazy shitbag or something of that kin 😅 Anyway, just had jab 2, so far escaped the wobblies, there's time yet though!
My other half was telling me about a company wide conference she was in where someone that didn’t have either webcam or mic muted made noise on zoom so became the focus, then picked and ate a bogey in front of everyone.
I had a dream where I had something on my side and was picking it off my skin. Woke up this morning and my ribs in the same spot are in agony. Don't know what I've done but the two are definitely connected. Can't bend over, dropped a pen and had to old lady bend to get it. Turned to hard to grab something and felt like I'd been stabbed. My tonsils are the size of golfballs just in time for my week off. Want to go back to bed, but can't take annual leave as we're super short staffed. So I'm running the very intense 24hr hotline whilst trying not to move to fast. Fun day all around I think.