Thursday, September 17, 2020

Awkward "Forgot to Turn Their Mic Off" Stories


With so many classes going remote, it only makes sense that there would be a huge number of instances of students and teachers making some serious errors over video calls. There's students getting caught badmouthing their teachers, students getting extremely personal, and all sort of mishaps going on when people forget to turn off their mic.

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Text - SirHasselblad 13.0k points · 18 hours ago One of my classmates was talking to someone off screen about how shitty the class is and how stupid our lecturer is. Her mic and camera were both on. She was rambling for about 30 seconds when the lecturer just said her name. She just looked over at her screen, leaned forward a tad, then her eyes went wide and she covered her mouth. She immediately left the meeting, haven't seen her in class since. This was 2 weeks ago.

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Text - daytime_moon99 7.7k points · 21 hours ago Once my very adorable classmate sang "happy birthday" so cheerfully while our prof was discussing. She only noticed it when she came back to class and saw our reactions in the chat. It was her dog's birthday, she said then apologized for it. "oh shit" to "awww" real quick :')

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Text - Arvendial 3.0k points · 20 hours ago Just yesterday! Kid was talking to his friend about how stupid the class was. Teacher stops and waits for him to finish. It takes them a second to realize that it's silent now. He asks if they're done. Sorry professor, muted. Cue the text chat in the server dying with laughter at him. (We made a discord server for the class)

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Text - OXD153A53 2.3k points · 18 hours ago Just yesterday had a classmate that was dead asleep..Like, head bobbin', open-mouth ASLEEP. This went on for about 15 minutes before he woke up, noticed the camera was on and quickly turned it off..It was too late, the prof had already made some remarks...and the lecture's recorded for later viewing :D

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Text - dendriticbranch 1.4k points · 19 hours ago In 8th grade our math teacher had this fancy new speaker and mic set installed in our classroom because apparently he had vocal chord issues and this way he could speak at a lower volume and not stress his voice box. So of course, he went to the bathroom and left his mic on. A class of 30 8th graders heard his entire bowel movement and bathroom ritual - including humming while washing his hands. The look on that poor mans face when he came back a

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Text - taintblister 31.2k points · 20 hours ago Someone in one of our huge official department meetings was unmuted. You could hear her bf ask in the background, "what are y'all doing?" And she said, "just this stupid meeting, we not doin' shiiiiieeettt." It was hilarious. She got kicked out of the meeting tho.

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Text - cwayzeecyclist 25.9k points · 19 hours ago My girlfriend told me a story of her taking an online zoom Pilates class at the beginning of everything shutting down. The zoom meeting was set up in presenter instead of gallery mode so whoever is speaking is on the main screen. She said in one of the poses someone farted and their camera popped up on the screen for everyone until the next instruction. Super awkward.

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Text - RollaRova 20.1k points · 21 hours ago Teacher was teaching a online class (grinds, which are extracurricular), there was a ton of audio issues and people kept saying they couldn't hear him, eventually he said that we would postpone the class to a couple days later, and that we could all leave the meeting now. Of course, I'm pretty sure this isn't the most tech- savvy guy, so he didn't realise that most of us couldn't tell he said to leave (audio issues again) and so we hung around a coupl

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Text - LaserbeamSharks 18.7k points · 19 hours ago · edited 19 hours ago Just today, this one guy had some unholy screeching coming through the mic from elsewhere in the house. No context, he just had a mildly panicked look on his face and muted himself.

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Text - Lanzzzalot 2.3k points · 19 hours ago Girl started to full on make out with her boyfriend. I mean under the shirt, heading to 3rd base type shit. Our professor has to beg her to at least turn off her camera

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Text - redditor_number_2156 16.6k points · 22 hours ago during an all school meeting, a teacher and his wife got in an argument and you could hear them yelling at each other.

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Text - ChonkDaddy23 9.9k points · 19 hours ago Our maths teacher is terrifying but doesn't really know how to work a computer. He was messing everything up and kept accidentally muting himself and stuff. Anyway this girl in my class forgot to mute herself and bacically spent a good 2 minutes dissing him with an impressive range of obscenities. At some point she realised that she was broadcasting her extremely low opinions of our teacher to the entire class. The teacher was very unhappy and the g

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Text - Cheshire_Cat8888 7.9k points · 19 hours ago I thought I had muted myself and I was just doing my work and singing "T'll make a man out of you" from Mulan because I had it stuck in my head. Then I looked at my computer and realized I wasn't muted and then quickly said Oh sorry I accidentally unmuted myself and the teacher said no worries and I could hear her laugh a little. I wanted to curl up and just lie in a hole. Lol.

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Text - silvermoon_182 7.6k points · 21 hours ago Not in my class, someone was unmuted while they started talking shit about someone else in the class before the teacher muted them. In my class, someone's mom came in and started yelling in Spanish. It was awkward bc at first the teacher thought they'd been trying to ask a question so she said "what" and for quiet for a minute while everyone just listened.

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Text - QuarantineTitans 6.2k points · 21 hours ago My dad's a college professor who is in his first semester of online classes. I moved in with him and mom to help take care of them during quarantine, and have extended my stay to help them with the inevitable slew of tech issues. Dad calls up, saying "can you come down a minute? I keep getting disconnected from the video." "Are you broadcasting now?" "No, I disconnected." I'd just gotten out of the shower, so figuring time was essential, I threw

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Text - Yep, it was still up and working. And in the upper-left corner, there I was, my fuzzy gut flopping around at all sorts of grotesque angles as I was leaning over the unappealingly lit desk. Now, instead of shrieking like a little girl, I kinda just look into the camera and say "ah, umm, good morning folks. Hey, uhh, professor dad? Bad news, mostly for them, your camera is working perfectly." Apparently, when he said he "disconnected," he meant the "share screen" would get disabled because

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Text - 5.3k points · 18 hours ago · edited 10 hours ago Not exactly but I did have a student who obviously walked why_is_rum_gone away in a callI. We predominantly use Teams for our video calls and it'll show you who is in a meeting and how long it is going for. I go through the teaching of the content and then I will always say "if you know what needs to be done, you're welcome to leave the call. If not, hang around and I'll answer your questions." All the students leave except one. I ask him h

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Text - zerbey 5.2k points · 21 hours ago Not in school, but a few years ago during online training for my job. Our managers agreed we could do the training at home since it was all remote anyway, and so it was an nice week working from home. During one of the sessions we heard what sounded like porn, then it got louder and louder. Finally the presenter says "OK we see who is unmuted, I'm not going to name names but let's be professional here". The poor guy couldn't look any of us in the eye afte

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Text - EweCanGoFuckYourSelf 4.6k points · 21 hours ago Not a teacher, but my wife is. She said that anytime she is in her class live stream our four year old will go use the potty and yell at her, "I'm done!!". Or anytime she smells something bad she will come up and ask her, "Did you toot?". I asked her if she did and that's why she is asking, she denies it, but I think otherwise.

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Text - May2211 4.0k points · 18 hours ago My 7th grade daughter turned on her zoom meeting for her very first class on her first day of school, saw the face of the student who was currently talking, and yelled "Not Victoria, I HATE Victoria"! I asked her if her mike was muted and she looked at her screen horrified, slammed her laptop shut, ran out of the room yelling "I quit school"! It was a rough first day.

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Text - Sage_Fox 4.0k points · 19 hours ago My church is still doing Zoom church. Apparently a quy didn't realize his wife was still in Zoom church when he stepped in full view of the camera, totally naked. I only know this because he said so, so luckily I don't think anyone noticed. We also have a time at the end for people to unmute themselves if they want to say hi. Someone unmuted himself, apparently thought it didn't work, and yelled "I DON'T KNOW HOW TO DO THIS SHIT."

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