Quite different than expected: the boss loses her face in a video call

Yikes, what happened there? Because of a breakdown during a video call in the home office, a boss has become famous on the Internet.

• A boss makes a mistake in a video slot.

• The colleagues only see it as a potato.

• The colleague takes a screenshot and puts everything on Twitter .

This video conference with colleagues in the home office * went badly wrong. But thanks to the funny glitch, the head of a political organization in the United States is now virtually an internet star. And admittedly: the story about which Buzzfeednews reported, among other things, is really something to smile about. True to the motto: Everyone can go like this ...

Boss as a potato in the video chat

That's what happened: Like so many people who are currently working in their home office because of the corona crisis * , Lizet Ocampo, director of the "People for the American Way" group, wanted to meet with her staff in a video booth.

Said and done. But instead of the face of her boss , a colleague was shown a potato in the video chat - only her boss's eyes and mouth were visible.

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The reaction: the roar of laughter from colleagues . Because the boss just couldn't manage to show her true face during the switch - she simply stayed in the chat: the said potato.

my boss turned herself into a potato on our Microsoft teams meeting and can't figure out how to turn the setting off, so she was just stuck like this the entire meeting pic.twitter.com/uHLgJUOsXk

Something like that shouldn't actually happen in the home office, but: Apparently Lizet Ocampo had previously downloaded various filters and activated the potato mask. She couldn't undo this attitude the moment it mattered. Oddly enough, the overlay was taken over by Microsoft Teams.

Breakdown in the home office on Twitter

So the story ended: The employee Rachel Clegg spontaneously took a screenshot of the failed video call - and put the whole thing on Twitter. The tweet went viral promptly.

The employee does not have to worry about her job . Because the boss herself took it on Twitter with humor and supplemented her profile self-critically: "I am the potato boss."

It is of course better to avoid that something happens unintentionally in the video office in the home office * that does not really concern the colleagues - that is, for example, that the girlfriend, the child or the dog constantly run through the picture during the video chat. Should this ever happen, you should remain as authentic as possible - and explain to your colleagues why it happened.

Only from time to time it gets really embarrassing - if, for example, someone is exposed in front of the camera without realizing it.

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