A great many people are new users of video conferencing thanks (cough) to the COVID-19 pandemic. It appears that many are learning some hard lessons! Zoom has become the most popular tool, and what follows are some hilarious “fails” over the last month or so. Here’s my favorite list so far.
Jennifer is now famous! This lady accidentally takes her laptop to the bathroom while still on camera! “Jennifer! Oh my God!”
These coworkers reacted to seeing that their coworker forget he wasn’t wearing pants when their call ended.
This lady’s boss turned herself into a potato during a call and couldn’t figure out how to undo it.
my boss turned herself into a potato on our Microsoft teams meeting and can’t figure out how to turn the setting off, so she was just stuck like this the entire meeting pic.twitter.com/uHLgJUOsXk
— Rachele Clegg (@PettyClegg) March 30, 2020
No picture for this one, but definitely a #ZoomFail when you have to listen to your classmates chew loudly on a call
First class of the day, Professor asks us to unmute our Mic's to make the classroom setting on zoom more "real". Now listening to lecture plus 2 people breathing heavily and 1 munching on chips loudly into the mic #COVID19 #Virtual #ZoomUniversity #zoomfail
— John Kemper (@jtkemper_) March 30, 2020
We can definitely sympathize with this next woman who had to suffer with a potato chip crumb down her shirt!
https://twitter.com/MeggiOwen/status/1242921740004659201
“Once you pop, you just can’t stop?”
Be sure to have the audio on for this hilarious situation!
Behind every successful woman is an unsuccessful man not wearing any pants:pic.twitter.com/GZsKPsXhub
— Josh R.R. Jokin (@joshcarlosjosh) March 24, 2020
Beware of the private chat feature in Zoom! It’s not so private!
A lot of blood is running cold due to this tweet. https://t.co/dbcN6GZtee
— Barry Malone (@malonebarry) March 30, 2020
Sometimes we all just need to SPELL out our names on a call, huh?
Everyone must now spell their name when they join a call. Thanks T-R-O-Y. #ZoomFail #Zoom pic.twitter.com/tHs2p2AxB8
— Zoom Fails (@ZoomFail) March 30, 2020
That darn half-second delay can really put a kink into things!
Zoom choir meeting today followed by a virtual choir attempt at singing happy birthday to Miss Rodriguez! It was interesting to say the least. 🙉😆😆 #zoomfail pic.twitter.com/Y07QBeuPOP
— WHS Choir (@TheRealWHSChoir) March 31, 2020
Taking a big hit from your large pink bong during class is probably not a good idea…
When your classes change to Pass/Fail #Zoom #ZoomFail pic.twitter.com/YM2DxzTuLl
— Zoom Fails (@ZoomFail) March 24, 2020
Can we all agree, without pics it didn’t happen? LOL
Has anyone else forgotten they were on a video call for work and just lifted their shirt up over their head? 😑#zoomfail
— Sydney (@sydneykempler) March 25, 2020
Sometimes, transparency isn’t good! Especially when you unintentionally share user names.
Boris Johnson's unwanted transparency. At @BorisJohnson everyone who is interested can read the Zoom user names (ID) from uk cabinet since March 31st. #zoomfail https://t.co/6iZuz9iud9
— Gerhard Kürner (@gerhardkuerner) April 2, 2020
And lastly, it’s important to get your timing right when leaving a video call!
I'm dying laughing! This is happening 10x/day #byee #zoomfails https://t.co/bpdSg1ySgl
— Phurpy1 (@Phurpy1) March 28, 2020
Be sure to check out the second list of Zoom Fails!