He Took it Pretty Well
It was the second day of training at my very first job ever. I had just graduated and had used Zoom for all my university classes; however, my company used Microsoft Teams for work, and I was not familiar with that platform. On my second day of training, we had an important meeting with the vice president of the company.
The vice president kept babbling about things that I didn’t understand because it was only my second day. So I was just messing around, and I right-clicked him. I saw three options—mute, spotlight, and pin. So I was thinking, “hmm..mute? That sounds IMPOSSIBLE. How can a person who is on their second day of training be able to mute someone, let alone the vice president?”
I thought about it for a bit and said, “Oh, it would definitely mute it on my side only!” So I clicked it, and it worked. I muted the guy from my side. I tried to right-click it again to unmute it, but it didn’t work. A couple of seconds later, I heard people typing in the chat and also speaking up, saying, “Hey, vice president, we can’t hear you.”
He unmuted himself and said, “Somebody just muted me. That’s hilarious!” At that point, my heart was beating fast. The meeting had 150+ people in it. I typed into the chat, “Sorry, didn’t mean to do that.” I then tried to unmute myself to apologize. I realized that when I told my co-workers, “Yeah, I definitely didn’t mean to mute him,” that the unmute button had worked, and everyone heard me say that. The vice president then jokingly told me, “You should’ve muted yourself, not me.”
Overall, he took it pretty well, but I thought I was fired for sure.
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