Woman’s rant about her outfit heard by colleagues on Zoom; goes viral on TikTok


A woman was left embarrassed after her colleagues heard her ranting about getting dressed up for a Zoom call with them only to find all their cameras turned off, as she had forgotten to mute herself on the work call. — Dreamstime/TNS

Thanks to the novel coronavirus pandemic, most of us are now proficient at using video conferencing apps like Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Zoom and many other such services.

However, every once in a while, we hear of users losing their tempers or doing certain things while completely unaware that they can be heard by everyone on the office call. Why? Because their microphone or camera (or both) were enabled during a call and they forgot to switch them off.

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