35 Quarantine Conference Calls Gone Hilariously Wrong

Since the coronavirus outbreak, more and more people started studying and working from home. Some of them, however, are as tech-savvy as my 89-year-old grandma and are running into some problems.

It's a good thing if your issues revolve around things like setting up your workspace and trying to find out where to plug the wires in. You spend some time googling it and take care of it. But if you can't handle a conference call, I have some bad news for you. Not only will your colleagues make sure you remember it, but they will also probably tell the Internet all about your video call fiasco as well.

From a not-so-secret bathroom trip to a rogue potato boss, here are some of the funny fails people have recorded during their Zoom video chats.

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Umami 4 years ago

After 'viewing' Bored Panda all these years, i created a login just to upvote this!

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However, don't let these funny Zoom fails to discourage you from video-calling your colleagues. "Most creativity is done in face-to-face environments," Nicholas Bloom, an economics professor at Stanford University, told Vox. "It encourages you to be ambitious and motivated. Full-time at home can be pretty miserable. Most people don’t enjoy it, you know, week in week out."

The expert predicts that, in general, productivity will be down dramatically. "I think even if this all returns to normal, there’s going to be a long-run cost. 2020 is going to be the year of lost innovation. If you look 10 years from now, there’s going to be a hole in new patents and new products and new ideas and great inventions that just didn’t happen in 2020, 2021. Think of scientists or engineers. How can they work properly at home? They’re being sent home, but I suspect they’re really not being very constructive."

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European other 4 years ago

That's hilarious ! It would have been hard to do the meeting !

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According to Bloom, the main thing we all can do to counter this is to recreate social contact, ideally using video conferencing, two ways. "For example, the whole group can meet for a 30-minute video chat at 11:00 every day to catch-up on their personal situation, chat about the news or life in general — no work talk." For individual interactions, Bloom said that managers should aim to spend 10 minutes video-talking individually to each of their employees every morning and every afternoon. "This is time-consuming but critical for keeping employees happy and productive through the next few months."

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savannah burrows 4 years ago

now try it with two cats two ferrets and three cats!

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Christy Smith 4 years ago

2 cats, 2 ferrets & 3 cats you say?!

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JazzyWorld 4 years ago (edited)

Try a scorpion on your shoulder, a cat on your head, a dog on you lap, and a gecko crawling up your leg. Happened to me.

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Trevor Dennis 4 years ago

So that's five cats? Sounds like Monty Python and the Spanish Inquisition.

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Jo Johannsen 4 years ago

I'd love to...! 😍

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Sarah Stalder 4 years ago

Do you have 5 cats? Or three or two?

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Alan Smith 4 years ago

so..... 5 cats in total?

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Water Bottle 4 years ago

3 cats and one dog gets pretty bad too

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Lily Parker 4 years ago

i have 8 cats at my house and 5 at my stables, and six horses... now try it with that.

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Casper Sand 4 years ago

SHOW ME THE CAT

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Rissie 4 years ago

I totally get it, Muffin is freaking gorgeous and clearly CEO material.

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Sagtiya Sieelan 4 years ago

Wow..handsome cat😂

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MagicalUnicorn 4 years ago

Muffin is real MVP

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Jennie-Lind Normand 4 years ago

My daughter is doing some of her school work through google hangouts and our dog is always jumping in and out of the calls, he misses people too!

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DKS 001 4 years ago

the answer to everything is "cats"

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JLaw 4 years ago

Everyone will find the pets more interesting than the meeting!

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bdunbar@kcls.org 4 years ago

My group thought I had a baby in my house, it was Cash, my cat. He talks a lot and is noisy

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OTTER 4 years ago

Good way to get a raise. Be an animal lover’

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Flavia Slag 4 years ago

Look at that face!

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Lynne Stankard 4 years ago

See - show a good person a cat - and that's it - Show Us The Cat!!! BTW - lovely Cat xxx

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Aitchilm 4 years ago

Cat: "I'm in charge now."

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Terry Jensen 4 years ago

how cute...good meeting in my opinion!! Hey Muffin!!!

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Sheila Annie Florence Smith 4 years ago

Oh so sweet! Luv to own this puddle tat!

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Vicki Perizzolo 4 years ago

cat videos are #1!

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Puji Widiasih 4 years ago

that's one handsome cat... oooh yeah

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Kate S 4 years ago

They will get us through

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AuntyJem 4 years ago

My cat does that all the time to my niece who works for NCMEC. They need those lighthearted moments-like we all do now.

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Parmeisan 4 years ago

I've said to my co-workers, one of the best things about everyone working remotely (in addition to the commute and the quiet) is getting to meet all their pets. One of the guys in our office has an adorable dog named Tesla, I've been hearing about him for a couple of years but now I've gotten to see him too. :)

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Nicolas Jacobs 4 years ago

In sport gear having a meeting with ceo‘s ...right...

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Ute Meeren 4 years ago

yeah :) CEOs of major orgs and you in jumper :)

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glowworm2 4 years ago

Muffin is a hero!

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Lisa 4 years ago

he has nice lips

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Hans 4 years ago

CEOs of a major USA org? Why boast when you have a cat?

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June 3 years ago

Cat's butt became famous at my work... She prefers to show her nasty butt than her cute face.... *facepalm* Atleast coworkers are fun, they use to shout "CAT BUTT" everytime she jumps in...

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ALEXANDRIA ISAACKS 4 years ago

Try it with one dog, six cats, chickens, and a guinea pig.

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ALEXANDRIA ISAACKS 4 years ago

Try to do it with one dog, six cats, chickens, and a guinea pig.

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GenXandEarnedItAll 4 years ago

Cat says, "Just try and make me leave the meeting. I'll sit on the keyboard and shut down this hooman nonsense right meow!"

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Eva the Ravenclaw Bookworm📚💖 4 years ago

And the cat darn well knows it

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Hunter Bradley 4 years ago

the cat is posing for the camrea

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Behind every successful woman is an unsuccessful man not wearing any pants:pic.twitter.com/GZsKPsXhub
— Joshua Self-QuaRayntine (@joshuaray) March 24, 2020

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Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago

Bahaha, that’s epic. The ending made it so much better.

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Calypso poet 4 years ago

Is your kid Gene Belcher?

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So, I have a parrot and online classes. We are not required to have video in the online class, so we just connect our microphones. Today, my bed, was extremely comfortable. As I got up at 10 am to join the online meeting in Zoom, my bed started calling me. I felt it. I joined, and didn't mute myself. Normally I'd mute myself because I have a parrot. My parrot is an Indian Ringneck, and those bastards are loud af. I decided to fall asleep through the whole class as my bed felt so good. Only after I woke up an hour after the class I realised I was still in the meeting with an unmuted microphone. I texted one of my classmates and they told me they couldn't have a normal class, and the teacher didn't know how to kick me out. They also said they tried talking with the parrot, they told me he said "Hello" and "What you doing" and then proceeded to repeat "ok" for the duration of the class.

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