Husband’s prank backfires after secretly changing wife’s Zoom background right before her boss calls for emergency meeting: 'That's extremely disrespectful on this call'

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Isabella Penn
Sep 5, 2024 12:00 PM EDT

In her husband's defense, the joke was funny; it was just extremely poor timing on his part. After using his wife's computer to hop on a call with his buddies to discuss their fantasy football draft, he started to play around with the backgrounds. After landing on an image that he deemed hilarious, he left it as his wife's background to make her laugh the next time she was logging into a call. Little did he know that the next morning, on her day off, she was called into an emergency meeting where her company had to share some pretty tragic news. Not expecting the call, she hurried up and signed on. She noticed her background had changed, but she just thought it was a nice picture of a beach. Little did she know, the joke of the background image was covered up by her body on the screen. It wasn't until she got up for a minute to shoo her dog away that she was met with the wrath of her boss, leading to an extremely awkward apology.

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    r/tifu 2 days ago • biznissethicz TIFU for forgetting to log out of my zoom account on my husband and I's office computer.
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    So last night, my husband had his fantasy football draft with his longtime friends who live across the country. As part of that, they always get on a zoom call for a few hours before and during the draft.
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    I work from home and usually work in there off of my old gaming PC (which ironically hasn't actually been used for gaming in years). But, I was done with work for the day and was leaving so I let him know the office was all his.
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    Apparently, during the draft, he was messing around and putting funny backgrounds behind him. The one he chose was an image of a dog pooping on the beach. Totally par for the course with him haha and I'm sure he left it there on purpose to make me laugh.
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    But this morning, I got an early message to get on an emergency conference call as soon as possible. Normally, I'd tell them to go if they think my themselves is getting on a call at 7am on a Saturday, but this was actually something pretty serious and pertinent to my job and more important
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    than that...a long time well- liked leader in the organization had passed away last night. Being kind of in shock, I ran to my office, jumped on right as everyone else gathered on and didn't really think or care to change the background and
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    just kind of thought "oh, that's nice" when I saw the beach. In fact, I didn't really even see the dog because I was at an angle on the screen and I was completely blocking it. Again, really sad and emotional call and wasn't particularly a
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    place or time to lighten the mood. Even though ironically this guy would've probably been the first to laugh at this since he was a fun-loving guy haha. But, eventually I got up for like. 5 seconds to lock my door and
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    shoo off my dog (not the one pictured) because he was attempting to break in and get pets. As I'm walking to sit back down one of our directors raises his voice and says "Uhhhh Hey (my name) wanna go ahead and change that background?
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    That's extremely disrespectful on this call. I'm all for trying to lighten up the mood but that's not the way to it. REALLY inappropriate". As he says that, I see the dog. I've got this bad habit when I'm mortified in that I laugh
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    uncontrollably and that paired with the shock of seeing the dog I couldn't stop laughing as I tried to fumble through explaining why it was there to the point I just had to mute myself and my screen after saying "I'm sorry I'm sorry".
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    That was followed by an extremely awkward pause followed up with "Well, guess we know how she feels!" And at that point I was actually crying because I felt so awful. At the end of the call I had to do this extremely awkward
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    apology and explain how my husband put it there as a joke for me to see and had nothing to do with the call. Luckily, it seemed like was like 60/40 people who realized I didn't mean anything by, a few that pinged me after and said it was funny, and a handful who were
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    absolutely staring daggers at me. Unfortunately, one of those was my boss. I'm so embarrassed right now. TLDR: Husband was being a silly goose and put a funny picture of a dog pooping on the beach as my zoom background as a joke. Had to get on an emergency 7am conference call after a well- loved employee died last night.
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    Didn't see the dog until one of the directors called me out on it and I made it worse by uncontrollably laughing when trying to apologize. Edit: one thing I'll add: I literally started at this company like three weeks ago. So, I'm still trying to get to know everyone and start off right, and this definitely didn't help.
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