"He can hear me?!": Woman's Zoom meeting mishap goes viral on TikTok
Internet - Over the past year and a half, disastrous Zoom meetings have become part and parcel of professional life.
Some people have been caught naked or even having sex, others showed up in court as cats. Alexandra Ceberio's experience may not be as bad as any of those examples, but the cringe factor is still painfully high.
Ceberio had just started her second day of work at a new job and was working from home, but she decided to take the time to dress a little more professionally.
She was logged into an open channel for team communication, but was a bit miffed that her colleagues chose to keep their cameras off. Not wanting to be the only one on video, she also turned hers off, but forgot to mute her microphone. After all her hard work in picking a new outfit, she decided to pick up her phone to rant a bit in a TikTok video about all those efforts being for nothing.
"I'm working from home today, some f****** bullsh**, because I got ready and everyone has their cameras off! I have this frizzy hair from the gym yesterday and this shirt is from...", Alex complains to the camera.
Her snarky speech is suddenly interrupted by a voice saying: "Hey guys, I can hear you, just so you know."
Alexandra freezes in embarrassment. "He can hear me?" she whispers, before covering her mouth.
The hilarious clip blew up, with over 992,000 views and thousands of comments. "My biggest fear in the world," said one user, while another pointed out the silver lining: "At least you didn't say anything crazy."
After keeping everyone in suspense for a few days, Alexandra answered the main question in a follow-up video: "I still got my job though."
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