I gathered here a collection of remote working gone wrong, as seen on Twitter 🙂

WFH day 1 report: I whispered “I LOVE YOU” loudly into what turned out to be my spouse’s active meeting headset mic.

— Lindsay Crudele (@thelindsayist) March 12, 2020

Strange new WFH universe pillow talk is your partner saying “I agree with what you were saying in that meeting this afternoon”

— Emily Kager (@EmilyKager) March 18, 2020

Day 3 of WFH and my family started screaming while I was in a meeting and my coworker remarked: “Now I understand why you prefer to go into the office everyday.“

— rimsha (@rimshutup) March 18, 2020

Unexpected partial nudity

Pro-tip: if you and your husband are both working from home, check to see if he’s on a four-way video call BEFORE running past the office naked to get a towel from the linen closet. #RealStory #COVID19 #WFH https://t.co/axghUWjvs2

— Christina Kerby (@ChristinaKerby) March 13, 2020

Big WFH learning for me today.

???? Remind Ryan to put some clothes on before he goes into the bathroom first thing in the morning.

Today he walked past my team video call BUTT naked ????????‍♀️ SOOOOOOO FUNNY ????

— Amanda Baker (@amandahustled) March 17, 2020

First day of working from home is going great. On a video call meeting with my 2 girl teammates and my brother walks into the room with only his boxers on. Happy WFH!????

— Marissa Notaro (@xoxomarissmarie) March 16, 2020

Wild animals

First WFH meeting and my dog decides to show his ass ????????‍♂️

— Quan (@QuanTarantino_) March 16, 2020

just started talking to my cat in the middle of a 68-person zoom meeting—and i wasn’t muted!!! send the meteor!!!!

— daniel taroy (@danieltaroy) March 16, 2020

Teleconferencing is hard

WFH:

– join meeting
– unmute to speak
– washing machine starts spinning
– hurriedly get up to escape the noise
– not realise charger is plugged in
– proceed to loudly knock pint of water + cup of coffee all over *everything*

– …continue speaking calmly as if nothing happened

— ????????????????????????

hashtag wfh Looks (everyone including me had their cameras turned off) pic.twitter.com/F41VcxIbnX

— that fucking bug woman again (@taxxonomic) March 18, 2020

I’m in a WFH meeting and my Google Home just answered a question someone on the video call asked, unprompted.

I nearly jumped out of my skin. pic.twitter.com/Z5Bv4coG3u

— Ashley Casperite (@missalwayswrite) October 16, 2019

Every WFH meeting so far:

“I’m sorry, you go…” “no, sorry I-” “Well what I was sayi-” “I’m sorry, were you saying something?” “Go ahead, no sorry, you go…”

*5 voices speak at once*
*suddenly no one speaks*

**SLOW PORTAL ZOOM INTENSIFIES DURING AWKWARD SILENCE**#COVID19

— Kaleb Coleman [AR/VR] (@kalebcoleman) March 11, 2020

Don’t say “I heard email got coronavirus” in a wfh comms meeting. It does not land.

— Aaron Pobre (@aaronnotpoor) March 12, 2020

WFH Side effect:

We can no longer use “Sorry we’re getting kicked out of this room” as an excuse to end a meeting on time.

— Josh Newton (@nooneswatching) March 17, 2020

Trying to press the ‘leave meeting’ button really fast on Zoom so I don’t have to hold my awkward goodbye face for more than a second#WFH #workingfromhome pic.twitter.com/O7aRoSLnEq

— Heather DeLand (@HeatherDeLand) March 17, 2020

Body sounds

day 1 of WFH and i already burped on a bluejeans meeting thinking i was on mute????

— kief (@grtbarrierkief) March 16, 2020

WFH Day 3: Was in a 15 person online meeting, thought I was muted, farted really loudly………. shit ????

— Yvette Chua (@yvettemc18) March 18, 2020

Challenges of interior design

If you do WFH and have a Skype meeting, always consider if the ‘art’ on the wall is:

A) In shot
B) Appropriate pic.twitter.com/CqRAvCV4AF

— Gareth Barlow (@GarethBarlow) March 18, 2020

@MantonJen has this #WFH all sorted….. pic.twitter.com/Qj7LRYAY9m

— Ramsay Jones CBE (@Ramsay59) March 18, 2020

WFH Update: We don’t really have desk/office chairs so I’ve been using this rickety folding chair, which just gave out. I tumbled cartoonishly to the floor. Thankfully, this was just prior to my morning Zoom meeting.

— Zack Mohlis (@zmohlis) March 18, 2020

The subject of every WFH Zoom meeting is actually “oh so that’s where you live.”

— R/GA (@RGA) March 11, 2020

Kids saying the darndest things

WFH diary, day 1:

???? Power went out during recording

???? Contruction workers are extra loud today

???? Daughter walked in on a meeting singing “I like banaaaaanas” at the top of her lungs

— Howard Pinsky (@Pinsky) March 13, 2020

Day 1 of mandatory #WFH while watching a sick kid: pretty good, other than my 4-y/o running into the middle of a supervision meeting yelling “DADA, I HAVE TO POOP!” Textbook “disorienting moment” pedagogy!

— Blake Reid (@blakereid) March 11, 2020

My kid just walked into my video conference, yelled “look at my penis,” and hit the button on his fart machine. Working from home going really great!

— Jenna Weiss-Berman (@WBJenna) March 17, 2020

Okay, this is a work-from-home win

To be in active status while WFH.. ???? #workingfromhome pic.twitter.com/wllOPuzvcQ

— Bharat (@Bharat53021017) March 18, 2020