An employee shared a humorous incident where she accidentally overheard her boss engaging in an amusing conversation after forgetting to mute himself during a call.
In a Reddit post, the woman recounted the moment when she heard her boss conversing with his cat, named Whiskers. The employee revealed that her boss, unaware that he wasn’t muted, expressed to his feline companion, “Mr. Whiskers, you’re the only one who gets my vision.”
Further details from the employee’s post titled “Overheard my boss in a Zoom meeting and I’m dead” included overhearing the boss criticizing a colleague named Jenkins in accounting, referring to him as a “spreadsheet goblin” who was dampening his enthusiasm. The incident sparked a flurry of comments from amused readers, with one person expressing gratitude for the entertainment and another describing it as “pure gold.”
Additionally, there were comments from individuals interested in working in such a lively environment, with one individual humorously suggesting submitting a resume along with a cat treat to secure a job. Despite the boss’s candid remarks about coworkers, some commenters found the boss endearing due to his interactions with his cat.
In a separate incident involving online mishaps, a Maths professor at the National University of Singapore, Dong Wang, unwittingly lectured for two hours with his microphone muted during a Zoom class in 2021. This blunder was only discovered towards the end of the lecture when a student pointed out that they couldn’t hear anything from him. The professor’s shocked reaction upon realizing the error was captured and shared widely online.
