What's your most embarrassing moment in your office
Was sharing screen for internal call when I zoned out and started texting my girlfriend on screen
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2010 first day at project I join after training. Desk allocated next to boss but work not allocated yet. Take the newspaper out of the bag cross legs open it wide and start reading. Sniggers and gasps on the floor. Everybody knows a fresher had joined 😅
> Everybody knows a fresher has joined.
Assuming you didn't know you were sitting beside your boss and ignoring the "cross-legged" body language.
If you were to advise your younger self, 13 years into the workforce, what would you suggest he should have done instead?
Would not have advised anything. It's not in my list of regrets.
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I (F) accidentally reacted with the heart emoji instead of thumbs up to my manager (M) during the standup in front of everyone
SabChangaSi
Stealth
9 months ago
Did that lead to your current employment status?
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AITookMyJobToo
Stealth
9 months ago
I work at tcs.
SabChangaSi
Stealth
9 months ago
It's good only :)))
You're fine, mate. As long as you aren't filling timesheets for a 70 at Infy.
SabChangaSi
Stealth
9 months ago
Was sitting without my shirt but my camera was off. I started my screen share and opened a new tab and a new meeting tab opened by mistake. Everyone saw me through screen share even though my camera was off. It was embarrassing.
Wtf? How can camera turn on like that?
Which software was this?
This is my worst nightmare
For safety I always keep my laptop camera shutter closed, if it would have happened to me I don't know if I would have been able to join the calls after that😅
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Borosil_Carrier
Stealth
9 months ago
Was discussing an outdoor creative for an International marketing campaign : The marketing lead (a female) said on call : A white guy and a black guy would be best.
*Everyone sniggered*
The project manager replied : I am gonna pretend I didn’t hear that.
IceCreamLover
Stealth
9 months ago
Assume my name is Rahul.
Not embarassing but funny, joined a meeting of around 40 people and the speaker said "Hi Rahul" and I unmuted and with the top of my voice said "Hi Rahul" back, everyone including me burst into laughter right after.
Being asked to share my screen in front of seniors and work on an Excel…
“Now apply this formula, now sum up diagonally” etc. etc.
I would literally be shivering internally because I’d feel so stupid
Sabre
Student
9 months ago
You work in program management or something? That requires this heavy excel? Sounds terrifying
I was interning at a mid sized firm. On one end of the office, there was MD’s cabin, adjacent to it was meeting room, adjacent to it was washroom and adjacent to it was cafeteria.
First 3 days of internship, used the washroom I mentioned above.
On the 4th day, when I left the washroom, got stopped by the cleaner and he told me “Ye MD sir ka personal washroom hai. Employees washroom bahar hai”
I had been using MD’s personal washroom for 3 days💀💀💀. Funnier part is, the way to the washroom goes through all the sitting spaces. Fking employees saw me using that but never stopped.
Demon
Stealth
9 months ago
I don't think it would have been as much of a taboo for the employees. If say all stalls of employee washroom are filled, the company will prefer me going in the MD washroom over HR's pet plant in lobby.
Was sharing the screen while the CTO was on call. Got zoned out while a Backend Bug was being fixed. Started watching movies on screen share, until I realised that they are enjoying the movie as well
Typed "one sex" instead of "one sec" in Teams chat with a female colleague. Edited it quickly, but she still saw it. That was the day I cursed the QWERTY keypad. Why would you place x beside c! She was a good friend so she didn't really make it an issue.
Onepercenteveryday
Stealth
9 months ago
Bro, you are lucky. Some people try to make a fuss out of nowhere 😃
Indy
Stealth
9 months ago
Grew my hair long during lockdown ,
One day before my meeting started ,
I was playing around with my hair and made a huge Mohawk .. joined the meeting and noticed the camera light come on .. shut off the camera but most of them saw the Martian from looney toons on cam
Not me personally but used to be on a sales job during covid and would have calls with clients and sometimes they'd share their screen
One guy had pics of naked girls as his wallpaper
Another guy was wearing a baniyaan while talking to me, and also eating a banana. It was just a very weird sight to behold.
I used to live in a small town and didn't use the office coffee machine earlier ever. I joined HCL Tech and was deployed at a client location. The client was one of the well known names with a stellar office premises. Many times when I went to have coffee, saw a person standing near it, thought I never saw his face but he was neat and dapper, quietly spoken and always dressed in a suit.
I always hasitated to use the coffee machine because of his presence as I was embarrassed to show that I didn't know how to operate a coffee machine. I watched him for few days during break out honing that he won't be there. One day I was fed up and decided to have coffee irrespective of him standing there. When I approached, he asked me ma'am what type of coffee you would like to have !! I was aghast to realize that he was a barista and was so embarrassed that I said, "Black Coffee" 😆, which I never like to have.
whiteKnight
Stealth
9 months ago
Shit 😂😂😂
Vegetabledev22
Stealth
9 months ago
was sharing my screen and my manager was asking updates.
When my colleague sends that meme "sab janana h iss bhadwe ko". Flashed right on top right for everyone to see.
He escalated the issue and cried a little but no action happened. So she was saved.
johan_liebert
Stealth
9 months ago
When I was a fresher I used to work for a US healthcare client. I am from the north of India and my name is something which usually parents keep for their daughter.
Now during the initial days whenever I used to raise the defects the developer (let's say S) used to fix my defect on first priority. And even the defect is invalid he used to mark it as a valid one only for me.
Please note that it was the time of 2015 when used to discuss official things over email.
One day for a particular defect a long email was on going and in that email the developer mentioned me as "she" instead of "he"
On the follow up email my lead corrected it as "he".😆
Since that day my defects were last in line in priority 😭
johan_liebert
Stealth
9 months ago
*parents keep for their daughter in South of India
Well once I was sharing my screen , I completely forgot that I was doing it . While the manager was talking he said a word I didn’t fully understand .
So I started googling the meaning of it while sharing it to the entire team . Then the manager says “thanks for letting the team know the words meaning” . I cringed so bad lol .
Right before wave 2, I ended up traveling to Dubai while doing WFH, but didn’t tell anyone at work.
But bit by bit, it somehow became known. I was working, but it was clear that I wasn’t working as much as I should have been.
During my initial days of training on Ethics and Compliance, trainer was explaining about how should we behave and in office hours during work from home period. I was lying on my bed and some how my personal system got stuck and without knowing my camera was turned on 😂😂. Trainer started shouting that this is the exact thing what I was referring to. Cannot forget that day xd
SDE_Intern_11
Student
9 months ago
Ohh god 🤣
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