Tuesday, September 1, 2020

Best "Forgot To Turn Off The Mic" Stories From Students On Zoom


Someone on AskReddit got a thread going about students' most unforgettable moments when they forgot to turn off their mics, during Zoom calls. As we all muddle through this chaotic time, it's inevitable that the academic world is experiencing its fair share of hiccups. Those Zoom calls can inspire some amazingly funny fails. 

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Text - daemare • 23h 2 Awards I had to defend my thesis over Zoom and many professors came into the call to watch. My thesis was about immune response in fish to parasites. One professor joined late and forgot to mute her mic and we got treated to this little gem: "Shhhh. Mommy is learning about fish parasites, which is what you'll get if you don't stop peeing in the koi pond."

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Text - hlfblnd • 1d Some guy's mother started yelling at him : "Turn down the freaking sound, I am so sick of listening to your classes the whole day, go to the balcony and continue from there or just bloody drop out of uni" along with a set of few swear words. Our professor muted him so I don't really know what happened next. Reply 1.2k ...

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Text - MrSpyder_ • 1d 2 Awards Not really anything super weird - was in a meeting with my class for the first day of school, and I had forgotten to mute myself. I then proceeded to start noisily baby- talking my cat, who was in my lap at the time. Embarassing. Reply 1.5k ...

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Text - SonOfCoul27 • 1d '1 Award English Zoom call. Teacher was holding us like 15+ minutes after the period had ended. She said something along the lines of "keep working arduously" and I responded with "if she says arduously ONE MORE TIME I'm going to FLIP A TABLE" I was not on mute Reply 5.5k

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Text - ElectronicHeart-903 • 1d 12 Awards When I was doing an online Algebra camp, the teacher forgot to turn off his Mic while we were supposed to be doing some problems. He said "I fucking hate math." Reply 22.3k ...

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Text - solo1024 • 1d 9 N S 37 Awards So I have one. I just did 8 hour zoom calls for 7 weeks training for a new project. On the second week, a man unmutes his call, farts the longest fart l've ever heard in my life, then when he finishes, mutes the call. I can see others laughing while muted at his fatal error of thinking he wasn't muted and so he went to "mute" his call. I found this to be the highlight of the week, but the following week the guy does it again!!! Honestly the second time I laug

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Text - vegancheezits • 1d 3 Awards In a math class I was in last year, we were taking a test, which you have to turn your mic on for-their way of trying to prevent cheating. Some girl apparently forgot that hers was on and started belting out Stand By You by Rachel Platten at the top of her lungs. It went on for the entire song and she was still humming it when I finished the test and left the call. Reply 24.2k

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Text - bingbong1234 • 1d 17 Awards I was producing a video for some university professors on a specific medical thing for a virtual learning course. I was all set up to shoot the process, and the teachers excused themselves to the next office to regroup and have a chat. I already had their wireless lav mics attached and fed to my camera, so when I sat down at the camera and put on my headphones I immediately heard their conversation - they were criticizing me, saying they couldn't believe they h

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Text - Odd_Camera_9588 • 1d 2 Awards Ironically my IT teacher forgot to turn of his mic and camera and proceeded to get in a very heated argument on the phone with his ex-girlfriend who he has a kid with. Did I mention that she's also a teacher at our school? Yeah most awkward 5 minutes of my life before he realised Reply 29.8k ...

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Text - The_Legendarian • 1d A student in my class forgot to turn off their mic, and we heard some background noises (doors closing, tappin...) and because of a display bug, we couldn't see where the noise was from. Then the student started saying crap about the teacher, "oh, yeah this is useless, he's just writing on a tablet, even / could do that, etc." Everyone heard that, the teacher heard them just insult him. They didn't come back to the classes after that. Reply 6.3k ...

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Text - throwaybff • 1d 1 Award Girl forgot to turn off her mic and started screaming at her parents in Chinese . I wish understood what she said . After few minutes, she gasped loudly when she realised she didn't mute it . Reply 20.3k

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Text - tcw1 • 1d e 3 Awards In a thermodynamics class, one of the students said "Holy shit, this is so much" after covering a large set of equations related to fugacity. Everyone found it relatable. Reply 19.9k ...

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Text - xandrenia • 1d 1 Award In one of my classes, this girl wrote in the Zoom chat "this is so fucking boring" not realizing that the professor could see it Reply 18.4k ...

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Text - le_gasdaddy • 1d Was in training before classes started this year. 200ish teachers. Only principal and AP were speaking. Teacher has her mic unmuted, phone rings, picks it up and says, "hey. Yeah. Just sitting here in another one of these goddam trainings. " Reply 4.1k ...

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Text - Non-native-English • 1d 1 Award My teacher got scolded by his wife (another teacher in school) because she needed to work and he didn't repair her computer. He was a computer technology teacher and he just keep saying "Sorry honey, I forgot. I won't do it again. I promise it will take two seconds to fix it." in loop because the wife went on a little rant of how he always forgot things. When he saw the mic was still on he blushed and after a moment of silence just went on with the lesson.

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Text - Pegi111 • 1d Somebody in my class forgot to turn off the mic and started singing along to a song and loudly. Somebody told her and there was this odd whooop!! Noise and then she cut off Reply 12.8k ...

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Text - WineMomParker • 1d 1 Award I'm a college student. Last semester we had a girl place an entire dinner order over the phone with her mic on while we all tried to tell her that her mic was on. I think she had us muted. She was ordering Mediterranean food. I think she got a chicken gyro.

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Text - Jawleene • 1d 1 Award I was visiting my best friend during a lecture and she had her mic and video turned off. She then had to join a group discussion and sometimes unmuted herself to contribute something. After that the whole class was supposed to present their results and she supposedly muted herself again. I started venting to her how wasps are considered wild bees even though they have no business beeing bees because they're assholes and suddenly we hear laughter from her professor an

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