Employee accidentally swears at boss during Zoom call thinking he's on mute: 'Hope I still have a job tomorrow'

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    TI U not knowing zoom was using my ps5 controllers mic and calling my manager an ☐ hole S Happened just a couple hours ago, A bit of background, I work remote most days and my camera is always off during meetings.
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    SO. I figured this out on my own, no one called me out or anything but I was sitting in a meeting and my manager decided it'd be cool to add an entire project onto my already packed workload. I use a blue yeti mic so I pressed my unmute button and said "yeah sounds good, I'll hop on that" like
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    a good little employee and pressed my mute button again. Thinking I was on mute, I said "F ☐ hole" pretty loud and clear and then continued scrolling on reddit in my other monitor.
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    So a couple minutes later I felt a sneeze coming on and checked my mute button on my yeti, still red, so I let that go. Loud ☐ Then a ☐ couple people in the zoom said Bless you. I said thanks. After a moment I realized that they heard my sneeze through my muted mic.
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    clicked on zooms settings to see what mic it was using and.. well.. It was using my ps5 controller mic that was sitting right next to me on my computer desk and is basically always plugged into my pc.
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    I quickly swapped it back to my blue yeti and sat there, staring at my keyboard like I just had a fresh lobotomy. There's no way they didn't hear me call my manager a ]hole.
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    Hope I still have a job tomorrow. Learned my lesson though. Either ALWAYS mute on zoom/check what mic zoom is using or unplug my ps5 controller before meetings.
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    also, pretty sure I f f ☐ ted too.. TLDR: Didnt notice zoom was using my ps5 controller's mic instead of my main mic and called my manager an ☐ hole.
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    LNDN91 . +2 14 days ac edited 14 days ago If he asks just tell your boss you were talking to yourself for taking on yet another job while you promised to yourself to set boundaries to prevent overworking yourself.
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    mrsc1880 14 days ago +2. "The cat knocked my drink off the desk." Always blame the cat. Even if you don't have one.
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    bluebook21. 14 days ago Literally was going to suggest this! "I realized I might have sworn at my cat during the meeting. So sorry, thought I was muted. Hope I didn't offend "
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    Autoimmune Disaster · 14 days ago Just tell them you have a cat and you were cursing at the little for knocking something off the table.
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    mrlotato OP. 14 days ago That'd work for the hole but idk if I can blame my f☐t on my cat. It was bass boosted
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    Etianen7 14 days ago Use the mute button in zoom, it blocks all mics that way.
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    mercurialpolyglot. 14 days ago Better yet, have it on push to talk so that there is never any tomfoolery with the mute button
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    Calling-Out-Stupid. 14 days ago Call your boss about something... then at the end say "did you figure out who called you a hole!?" I heard it on the call today. Deny deny deny

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