While on a Teams call with my supervisor my wife yells at me from across the room, “forward your calls to your work cell and take me shopping! They won’t know your not working…”.
Uhmmmm, too late 
What’s Your Biggest Work From Home Fail? (Contest!)
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During a conference call, I generally keep myself muted. My son was going through potty training this last year. He said he needed to go to the bathroom while I was on a call and of course, insists on having some company.
Just before he started going, I unmuted myself to make a comment and mistakenly didn’t mute myself again. I always wait just outside the open bathroom door for my son to be done taking care of business. He likes to yell out “I’M DONE! CAN YOU WIPE MY BUTT?” and didn’t fail to do it that time. I paused while entering the bathroom because the call got a little quiet but paid no attention to it because, well, I thought I was muted so what does it have to do with me?
While I’m assisting my son with wiping he comments “I had a lot of poop daddy”. It was then that I hear some chuckling and the woman directing the meeting said “don’t worry, most of us have kids”. I was red in the face and have never apologized for anything so quickly in my life. We all laughed about it afterward.
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It seems like I am always on a Zoom call or attending a webinar. My 96 pound black lab named Duke is an important part of the family and has the run of the house. He gets confused when I’m on a Zoom call and wearing my headset so as to not disturb my wife who is working in the next room. He thinks I am talking to him since he doesn’t hear the voices on the other end of Zoom. One time, while in the middle of a Zoom meeting, Duke jumped up into my lap. Did I mention that he weighs 96 pounds? I had my laptop on my lap and fortunately it was not crushed when he settled into the chair with me. Now when I have a virtual meeting, Duke gets a bone filled with peanut butter to keep him occupied and out of my lap.
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I was on a webex call. Had 26 people on this call and we were all participating in a live video call. Had clients on, vendors and other co-workers. I had the video showing behind another window while listening and talking. At one point I stopped talking and was just listening while the video of all the participants was sitting behind another window. My son walks into the room with an ipad and says “look at all these piggies. Which piggy is yours daddy”? He was referring to the ipad game where they play with piggies as characters. I heard a gasp and a bunch of laughing but that laughter was not coming from the ipad. I immediately panicked as I realized I must not have muted. Brought the Webex window front and center and people were laughing their butts off. They thought my son was referring them as he was not in camera view on the angle he walked into the room. People on the call thought he was asking me which of the video participants was my piggy? Yeah we go a great laugh. Not sure it would have went over so well if the pandemic was not around.
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I was on a conference call when my cat decided to jump up in my lap.
She was small, and the angle of the camera was just enough that you couldn’t make her body out - but you could see her tail on camera.
I was in the process of doing a training session with 8 other people, when her tail whipped up into the frame.
Someone immediately blurted out, “Are you being attacked by an octopus, or is that some sort of weird tentacle porn video???”
I lost all focus and we had to end training early.
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Oh geez…
My office uses Microsoft Teams as our main communications tool for quick pings and check-ins. One of my favorite things about this tool, is that it works seamlessly on mobile, desktop, and browser… And nobody can tell what device you’re on. One day I woke up super late for my morning check-in with my managers, and decided that I’ve just grabbed my personal laptop and take the video call from there. I threw on a button down and was presentable from the waist up… meanwhile only in boxers. The problem, is that my personal computer has a camera on the back as well as the front. Halfway through the video call I accidentally switched the camera input…showing off my bare legs and feet. VERY thankful as the angle could’ve been worse…
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I don’t work from home, so no fails in that regard.
But with religious meetings over Zoom for the last year, there have been enough cat butts on camera and mic failures to last me a while.
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My daughter shares the laptop for home schooling sometimes and I’ll set up a funny background for her on Zoom to keep her engaged (she’s 6).
Nothing like forgetting who used the computer last while hastily logging onto a meeting only to realise you have a giant hamburger as your background in a professional meeting.
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My biggest work from home fail was me spending two days developing work contracts for our upcoming projects, and then proceeding to hit the delete button rather than the entry button. Lucky me got to do it all over gain! Gah!
Thanks @AnkerOfficial for the sweeps! My work from home fail is my cat Zappa who wants to sit on my laptop and block my camera while on zoom!
My fail has to do with the construction of my house lol.
I am a college student doing work and attending class from home, and my dad works from home in the room right next to me. Because of our stupid home construction, I can hear him very clearly whenever he is talking on the phone (it is like we r in the same room) I can even hear when he farts, sneezes, coughs, etc… 
My my most favourite movie is Guardians of the Galaxy.
Hello,
My working from home depends mostly on good Internet, my Mac and attached devices. Once I was on a very important video call and the small, poor quality hub, failed on the middle of the call. Monitor, video camera and speakerphone attached to it gone!.. Luckily I had on my bag a travel hub from Anker, very quickly attached it and in few minutes I was up an running. This is now-a-days the one I use and depend on it!. Thanks @AnkerOfficial ! 
Was playing round with backgrounds on teams while in audio only then accidentally enabled camera with a Minecraft background. Second occasion was my waiting to be let into being, shouted to family thinking I was still in lobby but turned out I was actually in the meeting.
Since 13 months I am working 100% from home.
I have luckily only 1 videocall every Monday with my boss and my team, all others in the week are without video. My mum came one day to pick up my cat to take her to the vetinary for me as she had the time to do it for me.
Of course it was during the video call. My Mum KNEW it is a video call, but she went directly behind me (cat was hiding under my desk). She was waering joggers , a big vest and a silly wool hat and appeared directly in the camera behind me.
My boss started to laugh and asked who now entered the call? My Mum was really convinced that she is not visible and was just standing like a ghost behind me.
I said „say hello to my mum!“ and everybody started waving to her. She waved back like a robot.
I handed over the cat to her and pushed her slightly out off the picture with a „bye mum“.
Five minutes later the team were still laughing.
thanks @ndalby I will remove and post this in the correct thread…not sure why i posted to this one lol…
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My biggest fail was forgetting my kids. I was on a BluEJeans video call and forgot to pick my kids up at school. The school had to call me to come get them. I quickly ran out of the office to go pick the kids up all while leaving the video call on and everyone wondering wear I went.
My biggest work from home fail stemmed from my misguided decision to buy my puppy a cow leg bone that was bigger than her head. When she heard the voices of my coworkers coming from my laptop during a web meeting, she got so excited she dropped the giant bone on the keyboard, breaking it.
Trying to loose weight during this pandemic has been a struggle. So I turned to playing Pokémon Go to stay active. While on a Microsoft Teams meeting with my supervisor and other colleagues they requested that I share my screen. I forgot to exit out of my google search screen which listed the weakness and strengths of Rayquaza and how to earn more stardust. I couldn’t get my fingers to move fast enough get out of the page. I only stalled and laughed in disbelief. What’s more exciting is that another person asked what charge attacks he should keep. #AnkerWork