Wish mine was. Wish mine was. 
What’s Your Biggest Work From Home Fail? (Contest!)
I have worked remotely (from home, client site, local cafe, etc) for 10+ years - the waves of lockdown we’ve had in the UK have therefore not been problematic for me in terms of work.
However. early in lock down when people will still acclimatising to the ethos of working from home I was starting to get engaged with a new client - it was pretty obvious that they didn’t not have any real experience working from home.
One of the client’s team members was always distracted. He would frequently mute himself mid-conversation (his partner and kids constantly interrupting) sometimes at inappropriate times (you’d hear stuff no one wanted to hear). He would frequently get up, laptop in hand and walk around the house (collecting amazon deliveries at front door, making a drink, etc). As per muting his microphone we wasn’t too good at turning his camera off & on at the right time).
About 2 months in we were on a call where he was more distracted than ever - eventually his boss stopped the call and asked him point blank - “What the hell are you doing?”. The guy in question tried to avoid answering but eventually came clean - his wife had taken the dog for a walk. the dog had rolled in fox poo. he was washing the fox poo off the dog !
Needless to say this didn’t go over wll…
I hope I’m not too late, I just discovered the giveaway on Instagram.
My biggest homeoffice fail? I have once leaned sooo far back in the chair that I fell off the chair and of course everyone has seen. I had to laugh so hard afterwards and could not get to the mute button. Something like that wouldn’t have happened in the office.
Good luck everyone 
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My most embarrassing Work From Home Fail occurred while I was on a Mid-management staffing call and my little baby came in the room and launched himself at my lap, all while deciding he no longer wanted his diaper on!! My BF came running in to get my son and forgot he was only in his t-shirt and boxers… well… GOOD MORNING!! #AnkerWork
Seems I’m a little late to the party, but I’ll give it a shot anyways!
I’ve been using wireless headsets for about 10 years because I hated fiddling with the wires. But recently I upgraded my equipment to a stationary microphone and some proper wired headphones. The quality is outstanding, but the wire…
A few days after I’ve changed my setup I had a meeting. I told everyone I was waiting for a package and that I’d have to go afk for a moment when it arrives. When my doorbell rang I wanted to be quick and fetch the package before anyone noticed I was even gone. Well, 10+ years of wireless, 10+ years of moving freely had been etched in my mind. I got quite some momentun when suddenly the wire ended, the headphone amp started moving, throwing everything of the desk in its path. Eventually my headphones flew off my head, fell to the floor and everyone started bursting out laughing.
The left earcup of my brand new headphones was broken, which I was able to repair by myself. But I was able to atleast finish the meeting after cleaning up the mess…
I was on a Teams call with several groups to include my own. That stupid mute button got me again. My boss had gotten on to me a few days earlier when my dogs erupted into the house is under attack barking during a small meeting of just my coworkers. This time, it was her turn and without looking first, I mentioned that she should really use that mute button. Mega-cringe. Busted. Later that day, I got an email from her that I thought would be my firing. It wasn’t but now I am super cautious about that button!
My biggest fail was to have a very lame and somewhat not very respectful username at the time that I had two job interviews with very important people. They never called me back, maybe I blew it
i try to do my work as early as possible, facing the window
My biggest fail was when my Bluetooth headset battery failed and I came off of mute and all my coworkers hated me watching tv!
During a video conference, I had to present a report for an important project during my emotional summary and advertising for approval, I realized that the door was moving, which I unfortunately forgot to close.
My cat came in, which sat in front of me in front of my monitor and immediately made itself felt loud. A short moment of absolute silence, I forgot my word and stared into the camera.
Then a general laughter broke out. After that, I could finish my speech and got full approval for the project.
My biggest fail… i have had many but best one is about my 4 years old who is still learning to clean his bum after toilet break. Usually he will shout from the toilet but this one time when i couldnt hear it because i was paying attention in my meeting with headphone one, he really came close to me and screamed into my mic “papa, you need to check my pottyyyyyy” . I was stunned and embarrassed and i had to disconnect the call and apologise on chat
My biggest work from home fail happened during a Zoom Meeting my girlfriend had with her study group and I just got out of the shower. Traditionally she leaves her camera shut down so I walked in and kissed her head while being butt nacked… she didn’t leave her camera shut down this time though and it was the most awkward situation of my live 
#AnkerWork
Some of you are a few days late 
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My biggest fail was when i tried to charge my Notebook via Anker PD. Took me 1 hour of Troubleshooting only to realize that my smart Plug was Just switched Off 
Biggest fail?
Not sure if it’s fail…
Had ZOOM meating. There was 15 minutes break. I did turned off sound and video and went to kitchen to have a cup of cofee. When I did returned I found my dog sitting in my chair (he always do this). He was looking to the screen and my coworkers were looking at him. Somehow he managed to turn camera on…
Well, first of all I want to thank @Anker, that I have this great possibility to take part in such a great tombola 
My weardest and funniest experience was because of that backgrounds. One time the virtual background was allways in front of me, so you just could have seen my eyes and nose. The rest of me wasn‘t acknowledges by that Zoom System. I had to turn that background of and to use my phone as a webcam. Then that problem was solved. 
A funny and weared looking was that situation!
Shared it: https://twitter.com/flomeidinger/status/1379231317221588992
https://www.facebook.com/100018531034514/posts/746497129311315/
Mines quite a simple one…my cat jumped on my desk quite spectacularly out of nowhere which led me to kick out my extension lead; powering down my entire setup. Got up to go and plug it back into the wall but as I work in a rather low ceilinged basement as I went back up quite quickly to get back to the meeting I was in I bashed my head off the ceiling and knocked myself out for a minute or so. Luckily it was internal meeting so the funny side was seen for many weeks/months to come.
Lol keep them coming guys
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Last summer, when it was hot, my 2 year old daughter flat out refused to wear any clothes - I’ve lost count of the number of zoom calls I had where people started laughing as a naked child bounced around on the bed behind where I work - very embarrassing!!!