With more of us working from home to stop the spread of coronavirus, many of us are finding ourselves navigating the uncharted waters of work video calls.
Whether it be on Zoom, Google Hangouts or Skype, video calling our colleagues while secretly wearing our pyjama pants has somehow become the new normal.
And while it’s a privilege to be able to work and conduct meetings from the comfort of our own homes, sometimes things can get pretty, well… awkward.
From barking dogs and loud neighbours to the rogue family member who walks in during that very important meeting with your boss, video calling comes with its own unique set of challenges.
Here’s how the different star signs are spending their time in isolation. Post continues after video.
So to make us feel better about our cringe-worthy video blunders (and give us a much-needed laugh), here are 23 of the best memes that perfectly sum up what it means to work from home right now.
Behold.
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Well. Bye… now ???? via @emilyvernem
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please email me a 3 days notice if you want to video call. lockdown doesn’t change my anxiety.
— kar (@donpenguinii) March 29, 2020
me tomorrow on zoom https://t.co/8RedWvsRsd
— ???????????????????????? (@cakefacelinda) March 30, 2020
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
— Rach (@PettyClegg) March 30, 2020
I don’t know what to wear on zoom tomorrow ????
— Cristian (@veraaabristian) March 30, 2020
tfw tomorrow is monday and you gotta go back to being on zoom calls for 8hrs pic.twitter.com/ImPxh0aGAR
— text census to 332020 (@Kamaumaumau) March 30, 2020
They want to do a videocall but I’m in my pyjamas looking like trash I love it
— Thea/Zléo (@jelot_) March 29, 2020
Just finished zoom chat number 3, to discover that shirt is on inside out. #wfhfail
— Thomas Miller (@tfmiller3) March 31, 2020
There’s nothing like the disappointment of putting on makeup for a videoconference to show you haven’t completely let yourself go while working from home, and it gets changed to a telecon ????♀️ #wfhfail
— Camilla Herbig (@CamillaHerbig) March 30, 2020
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
The hardest thing about working from home is making sure you remember to change your clothes daily so you don’t look like scum on Video calls #CantSlumIt
— Craig Bradshaw (@MrCraigBradshaw) April 1, 2020
I just spent 2 minutes trying to figure out why the mouse to my work laptop wouldn’t move the cursor on my personal laptop screen. #WFHfails #NeedMoreCoffee
— Brian Garsh, M.Ed. (@Brian_Garsh) March 31, 2020
“Hey babe I think we got this working from home thing down ????????”
30 min later… pic.twitter.com/jwhRbNsU95
— David Brymer (@davidbrymer) March 24, 2020
*Banned from working from home video conference calls for barking which started all other dogs at participants to the conference calls home to also bark. pic.twitter.com/fmzmFGYZA6
— Lucy (@LucyLuPemberton) March 28, 2020
For video conference calls I have formal pyjamas. Otherwise during the day I mill around in standard tradesmen’s pyjamas.
— Michael Moffatt (@mofftech) March 28, 2020
Day 1 of working from home: video call with all my bosses and co-workers and mum walks in the room and starts waving at them….. ????????????????
— Bex (@Becky_Rakestraw) March 24, 2020
Thread:
Top tips for working from home:
1. You can wear the same pyjamas every day. Just top with a different scarf.
2. you don’t need to wear a bra. Just cross your arms when on a video call.— I am Salling (@susalling) March 28, 2020
Anyone else’s house looking like a call center? 3 adults working from home, video conferencing, live streaming, and all of the things.
— DancingRenDoc (@dancing_ren) March 23, 2020
days since accidentally appearing in someones ~working from home video call: 0
— ???? Aileen (@aileennataliee) March 19, 2020
tfw you can’t stop looking at yourself on the screen during the zoom meeting:pic.twitter.com/BRDum1SkaD
— Joshua Self-QuaRayntine (@joshuaray) March 30, 2020
I really need to stop getting in the background of my sisters video conference calls in pyjamas????????
— Abs (@birch_abi) March 31, 2020
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Another week of Zoom calls lies ahead ????
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What’s the funniest video call mishap you’ve encountered? Tell us in a comment below.