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40 Online Class Gems People Witnessed When Someone Forgot To Turn Off Their Camera Or Mic
Before the pandemic, most of us didn’t even know what Zoom was or ever participate in meetings online. But in the last year and a half, people have been forced to transfer their work or learning to virtual spaces.
After some time, we got used to it, because it’s nice when you don’t have to get ready in the morning; you can sleep in a little and work or study from the comfort of your bed. However, there is one danger in getting very comfortable with working from your computer. It’s the mute button.
Sometimes people think they’ve muted themselves, but they didn't. Other times, people really did mute themselves, but the programs would unmute them somehow. The mute button has caused some quite embarrassing and hilarious situations to occur, as you can imagine.
So if you want to hear some of those stories, you’re in luck as there is a quite popular thread on Reddit created by AsteroidPizza39 where he asked “Students/Teachers of Reddit, what’s the best ‘forgot to turn off the mic’ story during virtual learning?” and people flooded it with very entertaining tales.
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#1
Well, it happened in one of the classes.
The teacher was going through a rough time and the class could feel it. We assured her that we had done our homework and that she could take rest for the time being. She agreed and told she would switch her mic off and sleep for a while, as we did whatever.
Her husband was right beside her and the mic wasn't turned off. She told, " I am so lucky to have these students" and started sobbing to her husband. We all heard this, but kept quiet to prevent her being embarrassed.
She slept well during that time and we sent her a thank you gift collectively.
Anita Pickle 4 years ago
That is just... So kind. We seem to lack kindness so much these days. Please be kind.
Joonscrab 4 years ago
My teachers would never either. They literally told that the pandemic is normal and deaths shouldn't make us compromise on work. Idk anymore
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#2
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."
#3
Not a teacher student deal but my mother was in a work call. She does tech stuff with a hospital. Lots of people in it. My cat was up on her desk trying to get attention and meowed this deep loud meow. Right into her mic. The call proceeded with every time my cat meowed her co-workers would be like "good point" or "haven't thought of that" or like "yeah that sounds right". My mother was so embarrassed but she couldn't get her to leave her alone.
Pheebs 4 years ago
My coworkers and I have almost managed an all cats and dogs meeting. We’ve started purposely “bringing” our pets on teams calls.
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Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
So I'm in Zoom online group PTSD therapy, trying to keep sane and listen to others... and for 18 months now, the firs tthing we do is, "How's the cat/dog?" and my one cat won't shut up till everyone says "Oh, pretty girl"! .... And we're really all happier for it! :-)
TheCanadaGooseCatt 4 years ago
My teacher had a cat that would pop into zoom class, lol sooooo funny!!
#4
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 f*****g hate math."
Gabby M 4 years ago
Depending on the teacher's personality, this could actually be a good thing. Students appreciate honesty, and knowing their teacher also struggles with math could make them feel a little better.
Black Karen 4 years ago
Nah man. If you chose to teach it you are being a poor mode for the students. I would be so discouraged to hear my teacher say this.
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Bob Belcher 4 years ago
I hate to be that guy, but the picture shown isn't algebra, looks more like trig.
Colin L 4 years ago
I'm a math teacher... one of the reasons why teaching math can be hard is that it's like trying to teach people the beauty and subtle majesty of art by showing them how to paint a fence.
MrOwlAteMyMetalWorm. 4 years ago
Also,it's the hardest subject to teach online ,online math classes take the joy wlout of the subject but then teachers always give us that one fun moment while teaching where we truly appreciate the Subject.I miss being excited to physically attend lectures though.
Load More Replies... BeExcellentToEachother 4 years ago
Aw, that sucks. I love math. Teaching algebra was awesome! I had these whole true crimes stories going on, my students loved it. Like, X committed murder. You got to identify who X is by getting him to sweat it out alone in the interrogation room (alone on one side of the equal sign). The witnesses (constants) need to be removed safely, then we gotta pry the criminal's co-conspirator away (coefficient), etc etc
cerial___killer 4 years ago
That makes the two of us, that makes the two of us.... Venom........venom
#5
During one of the lectures, our cat came into the room and jumped into my lap. I proceeded to tell him how very cute he is and how much I love him, in the stupidly sweetest voice possible because he's the best boi.
Then, a full minute or two into me praising the cat, a message popped up from my classmate saying I'm unmuted. I had a mini spook and replied with "oh hahaha I was just talking to him" + a picture of the cat.
It was extra awkward because I walk around with a resting b***h face and barely talk to anyone when we're at uni, so my classmate later admitted that the only reason no one warned me sooner was because it didn't occur to them that the person with this sweet voice was me :/
לילי וילקר 4 years ago
My wife is a researcher of evolutionary cognition. Her lab barley worked during this year and she had zoom meetings every day with head of departments, international researchers and EVERY time the cat decided to join she stopped talking in order to introduce him and made every meeting better and lighter.
Mark Kelly 3 years ago
That kind of like moms. They will answer the phone in that sweet voice but turn into a lion with you.
#6
A boy accidentally forgot to turn his mic off and we heard how his mom literally verbally abuse him, then he looked at the camera and realized that the mic was on then he turned the camera and mic off. The next day he looked like he cried all day and his mom was behind the camera; I still feel bad for that kid
Edit: Guys guess what, my whole class were telling and spamming the principal to do something with the kid in the end the principal itself with the counselor have a huge speak with the mother and threatened that if she doesn't change they will call the police. She was scared as heck and was decided to change bc his dad did love him; the last day I saw him (the day I am editing this) was happy and like he was in the first day again, thought I couldn't speak to him is clearly that at least something was changed and his father is in him side.
Gabby M 4 years ago
My mother was very emotionally and verbally abusive growing up. I no longer have a relationship with her. The way parents talk to their kids becomes their inner voice. I hope that kid finds healing in time. Every child deserves to be loved and cared for, especially by their parents.
Zophra 4 years ago
Who is telling this story? If it is a teacher, it should be the teacher's responsibility, not the class to report the abuse; shame on the teacher to let the class take the responsibility. If a student is telling the story, there is no way a student would get to know the mother was threatened, etc. due to confidentality. Not so sure about this story but glad it has a happy ending.
Candia Lee 4 years ago
It's obviously a kid telling. Perhaps the teacher didn't hear or actually did do something the student didn't mention. The students obviously talk among themselves and therefore the kid shared his mom's reaction. If you are so unsure of the story, why do you believe the happy ending?
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Emi 4 years ago
Wish this could happen to me. The only ones who could help wouldn't believe me. I'd end up in more trouble.
Liam Walsh 4 years ago
Oh, Emi. I hope you can tell someone in authority. I can appreciate the fear and the worry that you might not be protected. I wish I could help you.
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Miraculous Klutz 4 years ago
This happened to me when I was still with distance edu school. Unfortunately, the kid (me) gets in trouble for not muting and hiding the camera, and the parents get worse, but more careful with it. Nothing happens.
#7
During my English class, this one girl forgot to mute herself. While my teacher was talking, she almost deafened all of us on the Zoom call answering her mother's questions.
Her mother (from a distance): "What class are you in?"
Her (yelling): English!
Her mother: Oh, the hot teacher?
Her: Yeah that guy
Now, even I'll admit my teacher is fairly attractive, but it does take it to another level when you get your own mother involved. Thankfully, our teacher is a chill guy and thought the whole thing was just kind of funny, and kind of just gave a general reminder to the class to keep mics muted. She didn't say anything for the rest of the class.
Colin L 4 years ago
As a teacher who has been flirted with by students before... ignoring it is the best policy.
Load More Replies... Mere Cat 4 years ago
I've never had a hot teacher but I've had even two with incredibly pleasant voices. I could just melt in the smooth, chocolatey tones as they talked about photosynthesis, astronomy etc. It was very easy to get good grades when my ears just devoured every word they said. :)
AngelWingsYT 4 years ago
Had a hot teacher in HS n i mean FRESH outta college hot. N this was like 12th grade. Every girl had a crush on him xD even some that didnt have him as a teacher....lotta broken hearts when it was reveled he was dating the teacher in the next room over
Amina Hays 4 years ago
I can't stand it when people are in different rooms and they yell to each other. Just get up and talk in the same room, it's not difficult.
#8
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 a**holes and suddenly we hear laughter from her professor and her classmates. She forgot to mute herself.
smugdruggler 4 years ago
Wasps are seriously underrated and unfairly maligned animals. They eat a vast amount of things like mosquitoes and there would be a lot more rotten fruit around without them. I keep honey bees and still find wasps fascinating.
Christina Muh 4 years ago
I'm so wanting to keep honey bees. Bees are so amazing!
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Devil's Advocate 4 years ago
Wild bees are wild bees, who considers wasps as "wild bees"?? Thing is, wasps are just as useful as bees for the world, they just have a bad name
StrawberryParfait 4 years ago
Assholes they may be, but they are important pollinators as well and eat many insect pests. Be kind to wasps, from a safe distance.
sylvanticx 4 years ago
wasps=dybbuks bees=sweet little guys that i adore with all my heart who would never hurt a fly or me
Adrian Johnson 4 years ago
Actually, they would if you annoyed them enough to sting. 😁
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#9
I'm a tutor, and my student forgot to mute themselves before leaving for a 5 mins break. She had a beautiful conversation with her brother about how much of a c**t I was, and how much I sucked and how poor I look/my house look.
Luckily, I always record my tutoring sessions, so I finish as if nothing happened, and sent the clip straight to my supervisor. She got booted off of the tutoring program, as I'm the only tutor advanced enough for her grade that is able to take her.
Carmen Sandiego 4 years ago (edited)
Student insults tutor, instantly regrets it.
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Candia Lee 4 years ago
We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone who doesn't respect our service.
Blaze Fitzwater 4 years ago
So glad she recorded this session. People are mean. Hope the girl failed. *sorry, not sorry*
Christel Nellemann 4 years ago (edited)
Hmm, sometimes it is good to vent without inhibitions or rationality to a confindante, and since the student was not talking smack to a group, or attacking the tutors general name, thinking she was in a safe secret zone, it sounds harsh.
Gary 4 years ago
So she got in trouble for expressing her own opinion in her own home to a member of her own family?
Joonscrab 4 years ago
And she was being a classist ass about it. I mean, I get that she didn't like their teaching but she had no right shaming their house /living conditions.
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Paula Marowsky 4 years ago
Because of course, for the "tutor" it would be so difficult to actually TALK like a mature person and tell the girl that she was being disrespectfull. So the only "teacher" available takes out on a girl, and refuses to do his work and punishes HER for having an opinion? Maybe the girl is RIGHT and that tutor is really a complete as$#ole
Joonscrab 4 years ago
I don't know if the teacher was actually bad, but calling them poor and shaming their living conditions is absolutely not okay. Classism is disgusting. I'm actually sort of glad she got kicked out. She sounds like a rich, spoilt person just because of that one comment. Also calling them a c**t is... Taking it too far ,if her complaints were only about horrible teaching.
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debora shuger 4 years ago
Students who are not doing well tend to say horrid things about their teachers.
cybermerlin2000 4 years ago
A classic example of a student introducing her foot to a shotgun barrel
#10
One time in an art class (separate from my school) my dad knocked on my door. It was dead silent at that point, everyone was working on their projects. I clicked the mute button and yelled "WHAT!?" Turns out my mic was already muted and I turned it on. I startled the entire class and the teacher asked if I was okay.
Laly Lynch 4 years ago
At first I thought you said, "Yes I'm a fine mess." 😂
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#11
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
Robert T 4 years ago
Yes, of course, how do you think new teachers are made?
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David carro 4 years ago
Oh, yes, they are allowed but only if they live in the same concentration camp, and embrace same religion , as otherwise it is forbiden under death penalty.
Mark Howell 4 years ago
Teachers want more kids? I'd have thought that 8hrs a day would be enough to make you celebate ;o)
#12
So we were making our classes as phone call on an app called teampspeak I think. Anyways, I was using my phone to talk and my computer to work and sometimes check discord, at a point, we were supposed to do some exercise on our own and I left my mic on. My friend send me a message talking about the fact that he got a girlfriend. So I send him "you did it, you crazy son of a b***h". Then I wanted to add some emoji, so I tried to edit the message and I hit the text to speech button instead. The computer literally yell " You crazy son of a b***h".
TheCanadaGooseCatt 4 years ago
It is midnight here, I burst out laughing 😆. I pretended I was coughing and my parents stayed asleep 💤
#13
My college class got to hear me tell my dog about how good he is.
AngelWingsYT 4 years ago
My class got to hear me yell at my kitten for getting into things he shouldnt xD
#14
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 I’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 laughed but then started to wonder if it was some kind of power move...
Devil's Advocate 4 years ago
Eight, one hour zoom calls over seven weeks, or eight hour zoom calls, every day, for seven weeks, or...??
Draco's Dragonfly 4 years ago
Am I the only one trying to guess which man from the picture could be the farter? (And yes, I realize the people in the picture are not the people from the story, but nevertheless my mind is still wondering which one fits the bill...)
#15
I had a student give a smart a** response to a question I asked and before I could respond his mom starts chewing into him and hitting him with a chancla. His mic and video was on for the whole thing.
Edit: For all those asking; I did not report the single mother who took time off from her only remaining job during a pandemic so she could make sure her sons were able to access their education. Didn’t strike me as abusive. I did call her after school to talk and let her know I would keep her updated on how her son was doing in my class so that, hopefully, between the two of us, we could keep him out of trouble. Some of y’all clearly didn’t grow up around Hispanic families. La Chancla is part of the culture.
somekid 4 years ago
relatable broooo la chancla is a hispanics kids worst nightmare as well as el cinto y la paleta
April Smith 4 years ago
My abuelita’s chancla was like a boomerang. I swear she’d know if we were doing something bad from three rooms away… that thing would come from around the corner, smack us upside the head, and bounce right back to whatever room she was in.
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Kari Panda 4 years ago (edited)
And switches and canes and paddles and straps used to be 'part of the culture' in many countries that have now outlawed physical punishment. There is never an excuse for child abuse, and certainly not it being 'part of the culture'.
DSBGWolfie187 4 years ago
I completely agree. I was about to comment the same thing
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Nameless 4 4 years ago
Is it wrong of me to say that I want to see a scene in a parody action movie where it's a old Mexican grandmother taking out 50 thugs with just a chancla?
Yvonda Marie Levings 4 years ago
Go look up "The Crazy Gorilla" on Facebook You can watch a video of a Hispanic Mom and her Chancla vs Michael Meyers(Halloween) Trust me and your welcome lol
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BukkitBrownie 4 years ago
A a victim of la chancla i doubt this is abuse lol, its a flip flop not a paddle. Flip flops are floppy.
Paula Marowsky 4 years ago
Yeah... better tossing flip flops arround than having loaded guns in the house.
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Rez Fidel 4 years ago
Really?! "Cultural reasons" which promote violence against kids? F**k this part of your culture then..sorry no sorry.
Joonscrab 4 years ago
Agreed. Just because it's culture doesn't mean it isn't wrong. Well, at least I didn't get hit by my parents even though we are South Asians. (it's common here too)
Load More Replies... Jess Thompson 4 years ago
Hitting is still abusive, no matter what culture. I have a Latina mom and this stuff is horrifying to me. Having a cute name “la chancleta” doesn’t make it ok to abuse your kids.
Analyn Lahr 4 years ago
I'm pretty sure a chancla is a sandal or flip flop if anyone was wondering.
Iron Eddy 4 years ago
I don't give a fück about chanclas being part of cultures. Child abuse is child abuse!! Ò.Ó
Pamela Blue 3 years ago
Spare the rod and spoil the child. And your attitude, my friends, is why we have generations of spoiled, entitled children.
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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 hired someone so young, inexperienced in that particular medical field, how I looked, how I asked questions, etc... Oops! At least I made them a fine video. These days I don't put my headphones on until we're about to shoot.
Ellis Reed 4 years ago
I would have called them out so they felt as awkward about it as I did for the rest of the filming process.
Beth Dezarn 4 years ago
Me too. I'd have said "old enough to know how to mute my mic" lol
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Ellie Rosser 4 years ago
Is there some magical reason why the person running the camera needs to know the medical theory behind the lesson? I bet none of them knew everything about OP's field but they still felt qualified to comment. What a bunch of dickheads.
Orion Countryman 4 years ago
Owch! You deserve an apology. Just because you are young and inexperienced doesn't mean you aren't good.
Blaze Fitzwater 4 years ago
I would have told them that I'm open to any additional feedback that like to share face to face so that they're uncomfortable.Then I would've produced a fine video, showed it to them, quit, and taken the video with me. Sorry, I can't do toxic work environments.
Tee Witt 4 years ago
I am afraid if they felt that way I would have told them to find someone who suited more and walked out of the job, but that is me.
Load More Replies... Devil's Advocate 4 years ago
Teachers of all people should know that you can't always judge people by their age, there are some amazingly gifted kids out there who are intelligent and wise fat beyond their years. Not calling you a kid, just saying that just because you're young, doesn't mean you're not experienced and perfectly capable, and they should know that.
לילי וילקר 4 years ago
That is why young people can't get descent jobs, and then can't get experience in their fields . It drives me crazy.
#17
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
sylvanticx 4 years ago
it was a long class period, of arduous work and even more arduous conversation.
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Jennifer Brekke 4 years ago
If I was the teacher I'd grin wickedly & say ArDuOuSly very slowly. (Flip that table now, b*tch!)
#18
I teach for an online university that requires me to conduct a weekly live session. One morning I was lecturing and a student popped in late. I said, “Hello, (student name)! Thanks for joining us.” She said, “Don’t say my name, b***h!”, just before she realized her mic was on and turned it off. I just laughed.
Devil's Advocate 4 years ago
Agreed, extremely inappropriate, especially when they were late as well!
Load More Replies... Blaze Fitzwater 4 years ago
Forget laughter. We would have had a conference call and some type of disciplinary action.
Iva Kazalova 4 years ago
That’s not ok, i’d have reported her, the cow was late anyway, if she didn’t want attention drawn to herself, she should’ve turned up on time!
#19
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.
Person 4 years ago
Yeah now on zooms all I do is mute and turn of my camera! I ALWAYS forget and make a sound or do something embarrassing.
Floofy Samoyed 4 years ago
Lucky my school but not even allowed to mute all turn off our cameras
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BrookieTheWookie 4 years ago
My older sister (we are in the same grade and have the same classes) started singing near the end of class, and everyone started commenting how good her voice was, and she would have not understanded what was going on if I hadn't walked into her room to explain what was going on
Kari Panda 4 years ago (edited)
And no one of the whole class - who was writing a TEST - told her to shut up? I mean, it happens, no harm done, but I‘d go crazy if I took a test and someone was singing :/
Guy MacGregor 4 years ago
Ok so I had too google the song... And so discover it. Basic pop song
Raven DeathShade 4 years ago
I'll stand by you, won't let nobody hurt you, I'll stand by you.
Load More Replies... #20
In a thermodynamics class, one of the students said "Holy s**t, this is so much" after covering a large set of equations related to fugacity. Everyone found it relatable.
Robert T 4 years ago
Fugacity sounds like a measure fuglyness. Edit: I looked it up and it is a measure of a gasses escaping tendency.
Pumpkin Spice 4 years ago
Hehe, gas escape tendency. So. Many. Fart jokes. Ehehehehe
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#21
Wouldnt say it’s the best, but definitely mildly embarrassing for me.
Early morning lecture, much earlier than I’d been used to getting up during the lockdown experience. Ended up slouched over on the couch listening with my eyes closed.
Suddenly get a message from one of my good friends also in the class saying I might want to mute my mic as I’d sort of half-fallen asleep and my heavy breathing/light snoring was coming through the microphone a little too loud.
I was absolutely mortified, can’t imagine it was exactly pleasing to the ears for anyone in the class at the time.
Jane S. 4 years ago
I've been there, it's so humiliating. I had worked a full night shift, come home and had one hour before class online. I was so tired I fully fell asleep during the class, and I snore SO loudly. People tried messaging me, but I was out. The teacher ended up muting me and messaging me after class about it. So embarrassing.
Ben Steinberg 4 years ago
I once had someone wake me up IN class because I was snoring too loud...ah good times...
#22
I'm a student, and my teacher was talking to his wife at first. Pretty normal right? Well, she leaves then he gets on the phone and says, "Yeah honey, my wife just left, wanna come over?" The entire class went bats**t bro.
Bored Batgirl 4 years ago
Why would the teacher be inviting his mistress over while he's going to be busy virtual teaching?
#23
A student's mother had the habit of standing just off camera and very closely observing her kid. I know this because one time the student "forgot" to disable the mic. Everyone heard how the mother was coaching the student how to act. Don't look my way, smile, pay attention. It was next-level helicoptering, right on the edge of abuse in my opinion.
Our school has a good counselor and the student is getting help. All the teachers have been advised to limit contact with the mother and not make waves, lest she withdraw the student or redouble her controlling behavior. I worry about it.
Terry Tobias 4 years ago
Maybe the school could send out a group message to all of the parents about the importance of allowing the students to attend their classes alone. They could say that this will instill competence and a strong work ethic in their kids and the teachers will know if there are any issues to be addressed and inform the parents at that point. Just a thought.
Muff_Fluff 4 years ago
I don’t think it would influence that parent’s behavior.
Load More Replies... Della Greymane 4 years ago
Or maybe the kid had a developmental disability like adhd or high functioning asd. My son has both, and needed behavior coaching both inside the classroom and out when he was younger to keep him from being super disruptive in class. It paid off - now he can do in person and online college classes like everyone else.
Baby Fratelli 4 years ago
Reminds me of a student's mum who would sit in our tutoring sessions, and every time I asked the student a question, the mum would answer and then call her daughter stupid for not knowing that. I tried getting her to leave, but she kept saying she needed to see what she's paying money for or something like that. After a couple lessons I called the agency that employed me asking to kick the mum out, or I can't teach there. Apparently two previous tutors dropped them already; dunno what the agency said to her, but the mum wasn't there the next time, and the student turned out to be quite capable when she wasn't around. There were some other things that the mum said, like how her kid copying homework off the Internet was my fault cause I didn't tell her not to, or how I must be unqualified because I looked too young (I was a fresh graduate). I actually quit tutoring after them lol
#24
I had a student's boyfriend (both college) walk up behind her on Zoom; reach into her shirt; pull out her breasts; and start doing a little boob dance. She was just laughing and playfully slapping his hands away.
This was probably 30 seconds after I had just gone through my whole speech of making sure there was nothing in your browser history, Google search history, or names of folders that could be embarrassing or offensive.
#25
One of my professors classes had a student say something like "I just joined 5 minutes before class and this a**hole is already teaching."
The professor just laughed and told him his mic was on.
Bob Belcher 4 years ago
Yeah if the calss doesn't start till a certain time wait. Many people don't show up to meetings until the minute before had and the first 5 minutes or so is always used to wait for the last few and go over basics or thr agenda.
cybermerlin2000 4 years ago
It's possible that he was giving a recap of the previous lesson and answering questions from students who came online early for a quick Q&A session
Emma Byrne 4 years ago
Or their teachers need to learn how to tell the time.
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#26
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.
Ali H M Salehuddin 4 years ago
I am familiar with GoTo meeting because my company uses it. As a presenter, I can mute a participant for incidences like this. Not sure what software that teacher uses. Surely it has similar function too.
#27
I’m not a student, but work in the tech industry. I’ve been in meetings where people forget to mute themselves on LARGE company calls, with hundreds or thousands of attendees, and we’ll hear a fart and then a toilet flush. That’s about as interesting as these meetings get though
#28
While giving a lecture on the 'heated' arguments among different schools of psychology, our prof screamed "Fire fire, there is fire" and most of the confused students included the teacher's pets replied "I agree. those were some lit points." Things turned out funnier and scarier when the prof went on with the screaming and we could hear her calling her house help and brother alarming them of a fire sparking up her switch board. So yeah, a confused, concerned class of 50 sat through the entire episode of turning out the fire while our prof revealed every dynamic of their family through her freaked out screams. and 30 min later she comes back to her lappy to unmute herself only to find a hundred "are you okay?" texts in the chat box.
Yort 4 years ago
“we could hear her calling her house help and brother alarming“ seriously what the hell?
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#29
Work situation. I asked a question on zoom from someone and he didn’t answer (no video on), I asked again to confirm he was there, silence. “Hello?” he then panics and says “sorry I’m peeing”
Did I need to know that? I didn’t.
Robert T 4 years ago
This is one I have to watch for. I have a cordless headset and sometimes go and make a cup of coffee mid-call (on a 2 hour meeting). Make damn sure that you are muted before you go. I have had to respond once whilst I was in the kitchen - which was weird for them as my empty chair started talking! :D
Devil's Advocate 4 years ago
Well, he had to explain why he was ignoring you so you didn't think he wasn't there and maybe wrote him up for missing an important meeting?
Edison Michael 3 years ago
I 100% did that during a group call. In my defense, the other person was angrily demanding an imediate answer to a very complicated question they had presented half a second before (I was, in fact, pondering what to say after washing my hands when the angry "WHERE ARE YOU?" echoed), and that probably annoyed me a bit.
#30
A girl’s mom: “Who the f**k you on the computer fo this early in the morning?” And asking the same thing over and over
Teacher: “_ I think your mic is on”
Terry Tobias 4 years ago
I would think that parents know by now that kids are taking school classes virtually. What does this one think her kid has been doing for over a year?
BastWren 4 years ago
Some parents aren't exactly present, Terry. The kids are usually the "parent" in those situations. Very sad.
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Lorraine R 4 years ago
That was what Woody Guthrie had written on his guitar. Pete Seeger later adapted it for his banjo: "This Machine Surrounds Hate and Forces it to Surrender."
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#31
Dude my one teacher forgot to turn off his camera and his son was changing in the background and the son kept on looking at the camera
Cohen Howell 4 years ago
That teacher couldnt see their own picture to see their son was changing?
#32
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."
kim morris 4 years ago
My high school history teacher husband says that every single PD day. Every single one.
Devil's Advocate 4 years ago
So many of these kinds of career training things are pointless and condescending. My dad used to have to go to one lecture a month to have some kid who wasn't even born when he started his job, telling him how to do it just so he could get a tick and carry on. He learnt nothing.
Niall Mac Iomera 4 years ago
Yeah, every single one of these training things I went to as a teacher was 100% useless.
#33
My son calls his tablet his “fix” because when I first got it and the battery would die, I’d tell him I was going to fix it. So imagine his pre-k teachers surprise last spring when he asked me if he could have his fix now that he was done with school. Lol I cracked up, held up the fix in question, and explained what he meant.
April Smith 4 years ago
Similar story: my son used to have this baby blanket he couldn’t go anywhere without. I’d tell him I was going to clean it when it went in the washer. When he started talking, he called his blanket his, “clean.” It was cute! “Clean, mama! My clean!”
#34
In one of my classes, this girl wrote in the Zoom chat “this is so f*****g boring” not realizing that the professor could see it
Parmeisan 4 years ago
I can do you one better. This happened in a university-level computer science class. One day, a student hit reply-all to an email about our assignment. I don't recall if the very first email was actually a question intended for the prof, or what, but students kept hitting reply-all to reply to the emails they were getting and at *some* point people started complaining about the prof and the class. Nobody seemed to realize that the prof was seeing everything they said. To be fair, he wasn't very good. But nobody deserves to receive all of the terrible things they said about him. And you'd think... these people ought to know enough about technology to navigate basic email functionality... I still cringe when I think about it.
#35
This was a conference call for work but it was a big call with like 12 people and I’m new-ish so I was really just listening as the senior analysts were discussing something. Call was going on for a while so I took my laptop Into the bathroom with me to take a s**t, flushed the toilet, and everyone just stopped talking. Turns out I didn’t mute my mic and everyone just heard a toilet flushing in the middle of a meeting. Luckily no one cared and they all laughed about it but I was mortified.
#36
Last week kid in my brothers class forgot his camera was on during the first class and was smoking a giant gas mask bong on his face during the syllabus review
Kate 4 years ago
A gas mask, like those old-timey ones, but instead of air canisters it's connected to a bong.
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#37
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.
Bee / she/her 4 years ago
Never. Cats are a REASON, not an excuse! This is completely valid.
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#38
Not a mic but an elementary student left their camera for a moment and the mother walked by naked. Guessing she asked him to leave the room so she could change or something not realizing the camera was left on.
Christel Nellemann 4 years ago
I claim the right to be naked in my own home with curtains shut.
Jayme Cox 4 years ago
Sure, but not when your child is doing virtual learning with kiddos that can see you, that's just nasty
Load More Replies... Paula Marowsky 4 years ago
So what? Mother naked. In her own home. Turn off your monitor if you don't want to see. Or better. Maybe close your eyes and mind your own business
Robert T 4 years ago
Well it is, but not everybody lives in a house with a separate room the kids can go into to use the computer.
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Raccoon Queen 4 years ago
One time I was in a meeting and one person had to grab something, and her husband wearing just a towel was standing in the background. We never told her.
#39
it isn't too bad, but during the graduating ceremony for a class, all staff were asked to attend and turn on their mic to clap at certain points so it wouldn't be awkward. One such staff member forgot to turn their mic back off and was heard loudly jokingly insulting her husband and asking for another drink whilst complaining about how long and boring this was. This was broadcast to a whole class, their parents, and anyone else listening. We stuck together and didn't tell anyone who it was, but we all knew.
MUTE. YOUR. MICS!!!
Devil's Advocate 4 years ago
The problem is, when people all get back together, they're going to forget how to talk to people and use their "inner voice" for stuff like this rather than relying on mute. How about people just learn to be better and more tolerant
#40
During a virtual gym class for my high school. A girl forgot to mute herself during a workout and yelled some obscene things very loudly
Terry Tobias 4 years ago
I didn't know virtual gym class was a thing! I learn something new everyday!
#41
We had a student in my class that was logged in on a smartphone, using an anonymous login, who never muted their mic once. They were outside, or near a window, every time. When their mic picked up a sound, it would maximize their blank screen, minimizing the teachers lesson which was on a whiteboard. It happened a lot. The teacher didnt know who it was and despite all of us begging them to mute, they never responded or did so and the teacher wasnt able to mute or boot them. The worst part is, since they were connected anonymously they never even got recorded as attending the lectures and failed for that reason alone. All of us suffered for this one dickhead who failed anyway.
#42
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.
Person 4 years ago (edited)
Literally his one job he can’t get out of!! Having a computer problem while literally teaching about computers!
Whatshername 4 years ago (edited)
It's not unusual for people to be great at their jobs... at their jobs. Once upon a time, when a pandemic was just another dystopian Hollywood subject, my "home office" (it was basically a computer room with finance/kids/bank folders -or what's it called?-) used to be a total mess while my office desk was always spotless.
Load More Replies... Dodo 4 years ago
Hen-pecked, I think. You either sit there in silence while they berate you, or you repeat the same thing over and over again while they berate you.
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The president of the uni I attended (until 2007) was presenting something with a bunch of other important people. This was being recorded for later upload and right when the pandemic was starting, around March 2020. His wife appears in the middle of the talk mad as hell telling him to go clean the toilet and that she's not her slave to clean his s**t. A few very awkward seconds later he just says "maybe we have to edit this out later". Now imagine how viral this must have been: I haven't had any ties to the uni since 2007 yet somehow the video got to my whatsapp.
Erin E 4 years ago
Emasculating?!? He couldn’t be an adult and clean up after himself. He should have been a considerate person and dealt with the situation. … yeah geez! Poor guy! A woman told him he needed to clean up after himself.
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#44
College student here! This was last semester so it was when we had first switched to all online. I had an 8 am class that was Renaissance through Modern art history. Anyway this kid in the class didn’t have his mic muted and he was snoring. Like snoring snoring. My poor professor tried to wake him up, and couldn’t. She also had no idea how to mute him or kick him out so we went on with the lecture. After about 5 minutes she finally said “I can’t f*****g teach to this” and ended the zoom meeting. The rest of the semester we used voice thread instead.
Anna McHugh 4 years ago
No they wouldn't, don't be ridiculous. If the limitations of the medium cut into the core task, nobody's getting fired for pointing that out under duress.
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#45
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
#46
lol I remember once during English class I forgot to turn off my mic. so obviously I was browsing reddit during class and giving out low laughs to memes and everyone could hear me. didn't stop until the teacher told asked what was so fuuny
Benjamin Tang 4 years ago
This happens even when I am muted-it's a rule that our cameras are on, and they could see if I'm smiling.
#47
A student in my class forgot to turn off their mic, and we heard some background noises (doors closing,tapping...) 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 I could do that, etc."
Everyone heard that, the teacher heard them just insult him. They didn't come back to the classes after that.
#48
I wasn't the one on class, but my brother. He was in class while I made lunch, but it was my first time making rice on my own. So I asked him if he could go and see if it's done, he didn't hear me, so i screamed at him the same question He then turned to face me, and screamed "WHAT?!" "IT'S NOT DONE. WAIT A MIN", and when he looked back at his class, he's teacher was telling him to turn down the mic, he almost got an eardrum popped.
#49
not really turn off the mic but you know that feature of pressing the spacebar to talk? well someone in my class was too used to pressing the spacebar to pause a video and mistakenly pressed it to "pause" the class to speak to someone in their home but would instead say nonsense while the teacher was speaking,this happened several times btw
#50
Someone in our science class didn't realize he was unmuted and called a widely disliked kid the hard r n-word. Somehow he didn't even get in trouble...
BastWren 4 years ago
Perhaps they got in trouble privately; in that case the other students wouldn't necessarily know that they had gotten punished. These days it is virtually impossible to use that word without some sort of reprimand (rightly so), especially in a school setting. At least that is the case in the US (well, with the possible exception of many schools in the southern states).
Blaze Fitzwater 4 years ago
This happened at my job last month on the first day of a new hire class. The girl was fired immediately.
What do you think ?
Kari Panda 4 years ago
That’s why I always act as if my mic and camera are on, even if I know they aren‘t. Might be a bit overcautious, but all these people 'knew' they had theirs turned off, too ^^,
Person 4 years ago
During my brothers class random people like to blast the most inappropriate music and it’s strange because I don’t known how these people even got into the zoom!
juice 4 years ago
they probably got the invite link from a student who thought it would be funny
Load More Replies... Zophra 4 years ago
My school's technology went down while teaching a high school biology class virtually. I always have issues with technology. Pissed off at this ongoing problem, I said some very choice inappropriate words about computers to my blank screen. Several students contacted me by text through the school's proxy site to tell me the mic was still on. (Thankfully they thought it was funny; I was mortified.)
OJ 4 years ago
i had a teacher a couple years ago who would randomly unmute her students throughout the class. like, she didn’t want us to talk or answer a question, she just unmuted us (??). when we confronted her about it, she said she could do whatever she wants cause it’s her classroom. i had to double check my mike was muted every time i needed to say something and it was so annoying, i’m shocked nothing awkward happened but it was super invasive
MrOwlAteMyMetalWorm. 4 years ago
Which app allows you to directly do that?You can send a request to unmute mic on zoom not unmute directly!
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Lovin' Life 4 years ago
And this my friends is exactly why I prefer seated classes. I am not very good with computers. I know I'd goof something up and embarrass myself. Very entertaining feed. I loved it!
cybermerlin2000 4 years ago
My fiancée works in a secondary school as the lead science technician. During the pandemic, she had to go in to perform some experiments online so that the students would be able to ask questions during the experiments. She rang me after a lesson with tears but very happy because she heard some students say "Awesome! It's Miss *****!" She also used to be a professional singer and on one occasion she was singing Summer of 69 when the students started joining in. It made her smile so much when she told me about it. Final one... Embarrassing for me. I saw she was in a meeting so I crawled pass behind her only for her to say "The camera is off and so is the mic"
Shine Caramia 4 years ago
My default is camera on, mic muted. It was lunch time and so I got a salad. I turned off my camera so I could eat discretely. Except, nope, I had unmuted my mic and was giving everyone the fully immersive salad eating experience.
Ali H M Salehuddin 4 years ago
I am familiar with GoTo meeting because my company uses it. As a presenter, I can mute a participant to avoid incidences like these. Surely other online meeting softwares have similar function too. Use it.
DuchessDegu 4 years ago
I constantly do the opposite and forget to turn the mic ON, so it's like a silent movie when I'm trying to do a presentation. Also that time I was on a call with a new client, sound was terrible so I got up to pick up my headphones so I was fully visible on video. I was wearing a very professional white shirt, and Hello Kitty pj pants.
Kari Panda 4 years ago
That’s why I always act as if my mic and camera are on, even if I know they aren‘t. Might be a bit overcautious, but all these people 'knew' they had theirs turned off, too ^^,
Person 4 years ago
During my brothers class random people like to blast the most inappropriate music and it’s strange because I don’t known how these people even got into the zoom!
juice 4 years ago
they probably got the invite link from a student who thought it would be funny
Load More Replies... Zophra 4 years ago
My school's technology went down while teaching a high school biology class virtually. I always have issues with technology. Pissed off at this ongoing problem, I said some very choice inappropriate words about computers to my blank screen. Several students contacted me by text through the school's proxy site to tell me the mic was still on. (Thankfully they thought it was funny; I was mortified.)
OJ 4 years ago
i had a teacher a couple years ago who would randomly unmute her students throughout the class. like, she didn’t want us to talk or answer a question, she just unmuted us (??). when we confronted her about it, she said she could do whatever she wants cause it’s her classroom. i had to double check my mike was muted every time i needed to say something and it was so annoying, i’m shocked nothing awkward happened but it was super invasive
MrOwlAteMyMetalWorm. 4 years ago
Which app allows you to directly do that?You can send a request to unmute mic on zoom not unmute directly!
Load More Replies... Lovin' Life 4 years ago
And this my friends is exactly why I prefer seated classes. I am not very good with computers. I know I'd goof something up and embarrass myself. Very entertaining feed. I loved it!
cybermerlin2000 4 years ago
My fiancée works in a secondary school as the lead science technician. During the pandemic, she had to go in to perform some experiments online so that the students would be able to ask questions during the experiments. She rang me after a lesson with tears but very happy because she heard some students say "Awesome! It's Miss *****!" She also used to be a professional singer and on one occasion she was singing Summer of 69 when the students started joining in. It made her smile so much when she told me about it. Final one... Embarrassing for me. I saw she was in a meeting so I crawled pass behind her only for her to say "The camera is off and so is the mic"
Shine Caramia 4 years ago
My default is camera on, mic muted. It was lunch time and so I got a salad. I turned off my camera so I could eat discretely. Except, nope, I had unmuted my mic and was giving everyone the fully immersive salad eating experience.
Ali H M Salehuddin 4 years ago
I am familiar with GoTo meeting because my company uses it. As a presenter, I can mute a participant to avoid incidences like these. Surely other online meeting softwares have similar function too. Use it.
DuchessDegu 4 years ago
I constantly do the opposite and forget to turn the mic ON, so it's like a silent movie when I'm trying to do a presentation. Also that time I was on a call with a new client, sound was terrible so I got up to pick up my headphones so I was fully visible on video. I was wearing a very professional white shirt, and Hello Kitty pj pants.
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