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What’s Your Biggest Work From Home Fail? (Contest!)
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Let’s just say it’s one thing that your colleagues can’t see that your not wearing much below the waist, but the window cleaner is a different matter! 
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During the summer on a particularly warm day, I decided that working in just a pair of shorts would be a good idea. Our team meetings are on MS Teams and the had cam/mic turned on automatically (no longer the case) - which upto that point didn’t bother me.
Needless to say my team got a lovely view of my hairy chest and back as I swung around in my chair bored in the meeting 
Let’s just say my heart near stopped when I heard “Mark are you alright? You realise your camera is on”
Let’s just say it’s not happened since 
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I was doing board meeting on zoom and my private phone rings. Thought that I had hit the mute button on zoom, I proceed to answer & speak w/ my baby niece. Getting back to zoom board meeting I was bombed with embarrassing questions about my baby nursing skill as jokes. Lesson learned to be sure you really did mute you zoom conference before proceeding to talk.
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My work-from-home fail is not having a good enough laptop to do my streaming, and not enough monitors… Hope I can fix some of these issues! 
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During my work from home fail, I was on a conference call when my niece started making noise in the background. I had to hurry up and mute my microphone before the others heard her. 
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My mom was watching my infant daughter while I was on a conference call. There was a small commotion so I got up to check on them. Upon entering the room my mom announces loudly “She S%!T all over me.” I look over at the phone to double check I am muted. You know what happened next, I was not muted.
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I had been running late one day for a work zoom meeting and was all ready except for my bottom half 🤦 I figured that my boss and coworkers could only see my top half anyway, right? Wrong! About 20 minutes into the meeting my pup decided that he wanted to join us and jumped up on my lap out of nowhere. My coffee spilled everywhere. I think you can imagine the rest of the story but I will finish. I jumped up because it had scared me so, and I just had hot 
coffee spill all over me and my uncovered bottom half! The entire meeting was in stitches. They saw everything because I proceeded to clean up the spill right away since I love a sweet cup of coffee. After finally remembering that I was in a zoom meeting with 7 other people, I shut my laptop to remove myself from the embarrassment. I am so tired of hearing that " I see London, I see France song"🤦! Am I the only one who has gone bottomless during a work zoom meeting?
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My biggest fail has to be my foster cat. He has a nasal condition and snores terribly. It’s so embarassing when I’m on the phone!
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2 kids home from school and I was in a zoom meeting. Had my youngest playing on her ipad while I was in my meeting, Suddenly, my entire house loses power - no storms, or anything going on. I am frantic trying to get my hotspot on and my laptop booted back up to get back in my meeting. Kids are freaking out because, “internet is EVERYTHING”. Finally get back in my meeting and my 5 year old sees me on the computer and says, “WHAT? You can get online, but I cant?! WORST DAY EVER!”. Dramatic, sure - but then I hear laughing. I was not muted, so everyone heard how addicted my kid is to her ipad.
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I have 4 dogs, 1 of them saw a deer in the yard. Much barking ensued because once one starts the others have to chime in.
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My COVID-25 has been rearing its ugly little head lately. I was in the middle of interviewing with a recruitment firm, and apparently I exceeded the limitations of my chair. I heard the recruiter start laughing hysterically at the same moment as I started to lean towards the left , and then toppled, as one of the legs on my chair decided to give in the middle of the interview. #workfromhomefail #ankerwork
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Ugh, I guess there’s no better time to share this story.
We were on a company-wide Zoom call. One of my coworkers, who I’ve never met in person because he was hired during quarantine, was wearing a really cool hat. It seemed like something that my husband would love so, because his birthday was coming up, I took a screenshot.
About 20 minutes later, it was my time to present. As soon as I shared my screen, my heart dropped. I FORGOT TO MOVE THE SCREENSHOT FROM MY DESKTOP.
So, here I am, presenting to leadership in front of the whole team with a PICTURE of a COWORKER that I have NEVER MET in the middle of my screen. I definitely turned bright red, broke out in a sweat, and covered the picture as soon as possible.
The worst part is that I couldn’t explain myself. There was no pausing to explain the hat kerfuffle… I had to present my entire presentation, basking in the awkwardness, knowing that every single person thought I was super creepy. The only thing more uncomfortable was Slacking the guy nearly an hour later trying to convince him that he should be flattered because I liked his hat? Omg. Mortifying.
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I plugged my MacBook Pro, which was over seven years old, into a lamp with a three-pronged plug to charge my computer, because the actual outlet in the wall was too hard to reach behind furniture and had other things plugged in, as well. The computer was old and needed to be charged often because the battery needed to be replaced. The lamp I plugged the computer cord into must have had a short, because there was a big “pop”, my computer went blank, and I lost all the data on my hard drive. The data couldn’t be recovered by computer repair stores. Plus, I hadn’t been backing up my data on any external drive. I had to get a new computer. I lost major projects on my computer I was working on and trying to complete for my job.
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Our home office is in the front of the house, adjacent to the front door. With all of the deliveries these days of products and sustenance, our chihuahua’s instinctual barking at said door each and every time he hears a truck pull up to the curb means unfortunate and loud interruptions to our Zoom (and other) calls.
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My biggest work from home fail was a meeting with a client via video chat and somehow my husband lost sight of our youngest and the next thing you know there is a bare naked 2 year old running behind me in the video and my husband chasing after him. I was mortified. Thankfully my client had children of their own and a sense of humor so they were very understanding and we laughed about it.
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I would say … my biggest fail would be not inventing in the proper equipment. My body regretted non- agronomical items such as a keyboard/mouse. 
#AnkerWork
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My biggest work from home fail - would be taking a work call with my children in the car. After warning them to be silent, I took the call in my car on speakerphone, and while discussing what the salesman and I agreed was a customer that we didn’t think was leveling us many “questionable” language words were used (including by me). At the end of the call, my children told me they were horrified that I talk like that!
As a happier side note - they also asked who that was on the phone, and I said Steve, since that’s my co-workers name. Now every single time I’m on the phone for work, my younger son asks “are you talking to Steve?” and if we’re in the car, my children will always says “goodbye Steve!” when I hang up. Thank you for great and understanding co-workers like Steve!
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Simple, yet classic. Have two different occasions.
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In a Zoom meeting, happened to get out of my chair, when I came back to sit down on it, it decided to roll away from me. My bottom missed & slipped away from the chair, and fell hard on my bottom. Once my bottom made contact with the hardwood floor, it decided that this was a great time to let loose some flatulence. And boy, did it stir up a roar. I was so embarrassed, I actually thought about cutting the power on the computer while I was down there LOL.
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While on a call with a customer, I had accidentally farted louder than expected. I immediately tried to play it off by beat boxing. Although my beat boxing is actually just me making fart-like noises and clicking sounds. I think the customer wasn’t fooled and probably was embarrassed for me as well, so he was kind enough to ignore what had just transpired and asked me how my day was.
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I was teaching a small class on Zoom and presenting on screen. However, the students could only hear the audio, and the video was stuck on the first frame. The comments were hidden in the part of the bar that you have to expand. It wasn’t until 3/4 through that one of the students spoke up. I then wasted more of classtime trying to make it work. Still haven’t gotten to the bottom of it…
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