While he was gone, his grandma shuffled into the room and started organizing the area that he was sitting in - straightening his chair, putting some of his notes from the meeting together - she obviously didn’t realize we were all on the screen or thought we were some sort of screensaver. We were in the middle of a semi-regular meeting between a few of us at Broadband Search, when an employee had to step away for a few minutes. Adam Chase, President, Music Minds One of the funniest moments when conducting a video meeting last year was when an employee stepped away from his computer for a little while. It was impossible to keep a straight face, but everyone had a good laugh about it. When he came back, there was a lot of swearing as he didn't think we'd actually hear him. Because I had my Zoom settings set to show the active speaker, I just kept seeing the tuxedo cat moving in and out of the frame, and we all kept hearing it knocking things off his desk. It was in the frame, walking all over the keyboard. We continued the meeting, then the mic picked up sounds as his cat jumped up on the desk. We were working on some new education initiatives to launch in the summer, and our content manager needed to step away for a few minutes to deal with a mild family crisis. Everyone was getting used to working from home, and of course that means spouses, kids, and pets are getting used to it, too. Dan Bailey, President, WikiLawn We had a pretty funny Zoom "incident" early on in lockdown. They offered to walk my son through it, so he sat down in my chair and three different people helped him show his work and come up with the right answer. I heard someone trying to get my attention (my headset was off) and one of my employees told me that wasn't the right answer. I hadn't realized my camera and mic were still on, so I was working through a pre-calc problem, trying my best despite not being the biggest math buff. I apologized to my employees and took the assignment to figure out how I could help him. He burst into the room (closed door and everything) nearly in tears with frustration. I could hear this from the other room, but I was on a Zoom call so I didn't intervene. My wife was trying to help him, but he was getting frustrated. But back in August he was working on assignments he felt were too advanced for his level. We trade-off on education duties, and now we supplement this with online classes. What are yours? Let us know on social media! My wife and I have been home-schooling our 13-year-old son since the lockdown started. Here are 13 of the most embarrassing video conferencing "fails" that full-time WFH-ers shared with us. 2020 was a stressful year for many of us, and working full-time from home means that these moments are unavoidable. The rise of widespread video conferencing in 2020 meant the rise of video conferencing incidents: Kids running in to our workspaces while we're on important client calls, family dogs howling in the background, or cat filters in important legal meetings.Īt MegaMeeting, we think it's important to be able to laugh at these moments. However, it hasn't been without its growing pains. Thankfully, modern technology made this shift much more possible than in years before, with team collaboration solutions letting remotely distributed teams work together as if they were in the same room, no matter how far apart their new workplaces were. Work changed for many people in 2020, as the COVID-19 crisis forced businesses and workers to adapt to a new paradigm of working from home and social distancing.
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