My wife and I have been taking a technical writing course at our university together. One day she was making comments on the Zoom call before class started and one guy started making comments along the line of “Dannnggg that girl is cute! Man, [first name] [last name] I’ll have to remember her. Oh, wait a second, was she married? I can’t remember.” (1/2)

Our instructor cut him off by saying “Hey um, [name] we can hear you. Yes she’s very nice. Yes she is married, but don’t worry, [my name] is a kind person.” He was horrified when he realized his mic was on. (2/2)

I was pregnant at the time and my trainees were taking a test. I thought I was muted and farted suuuuuper loud. Then when I realized I wasn’t on mute, I very unconvincingly blamed it on the dog. The following silence on their end only added to my shame.

Attorney here – when I literally said “shit” while getting off a court call. To be clear, this was audible to the judge and all other virtual hearing participants. The “shit” was because I had spilled my coffee.

I taking driver’s ed. on Zoom and I was watching a video on my phone. Some dude randomly said, “I wanna eat pussy”. I had no idea the video would say that and it was super embarrassing.

For some reason my lecturer said the word “boobies” and I laughed super loud (I’m 29 years old.) Only to realize my mic wasn’t muted. He proceeds to call out my name asking if I had a question.

Was playing online Chess, since my teacher was idle. The opposite side in the Chess game was taking too long to move so I yelled “Make a move you fucking bastard.” My mic wasn’t muted.

I went to the washroom with my phone. I turned off the volume in my phone so I wouldn’t listen to the class and mistakenly ended up unmuting as well. My entire class heard me peeing.

I’m a public defender and for the past year, I’ve been doing court over zoom from the jail. I was in front of a judge who is very slow and deliberate and it became apparent that several of my cases wouldn’t be called until after lunch. I turned from the screen and HOLLERED across the module, “Sorry guys, you’ll have to come back after lunch. This guy is slower than death!” I was not muted.

Was playing online Chess, since my teacher was idle. The opposite side in the Chess game was taking too long to move so I yelled “Make a move you fucking bastard.” My mic wasn’t muted.

I had my mic on but my camera was off. I dozed off and started snoring.

I was at the beginning of a Zoom exam, and I didn’t realize the mic turns on immediately. For about 5-8 mins I was singing sea shanties while preparing my setup…with about 350 people listening to me.

My younger sister who is 9 came into my room and screamed that a bird flew into her room. I was presenting in front of my class about the avian flu (the irony). I said that there was an emergency and had to leave the meeting. I had to get the bird out so I took a broom and pushed the bird outside. Turns out I forgot to mute and the entire class heard me screaming in fear trying to get the bird out.

I was playing 8 Ball Pool and was in the final round of a tournament during Calc. I screamed, “Holy fuck I blow” after missing a shot. I got about eight texts from classmates and a nice laugh from the teacher.

A coworker was going on a rant that had nothing to do with me. So I muted and turned off my video to go refill my coffee. When I came back, she was still going off and I said out loud “Holy fuck, is she still talking?” The entire meeting came to a dead halt. Thankfully over 50 people were on the call and they didn’t know it was me.

Loaded up Mario Kart on my TV and my professor (hearing the music) asked if she could play with me