BONUS - Hot Mics and Workplace Fails: The One Where Everyone Got Caught

What happens when you forget your mic is on… or hit send too soon.

A chopper reporter’s emotional spiral during live traffic coverage turns into an unexpected broadcast of heartbreak, bourbon, and cats. And if that wasn’t enough public oversharing, we dive into the most cringe-worthy workplace screwups: from a Microsoft Teams message about firing someone sent to the entire company, to texts about full-body massages accidentally CC’d to a client thread.

Listeners call in with their own horror stories, including a fake Slack bot that told everyone they were fired, coworkers roasting clients with the clients on the email, and one accidental email that started a chain reaction of panic across the office.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
You know what, I don't care. I am married, I
am legally married. I am lee.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
This is audio from a news reporter who was covering
some of the protests over the weekend in La helicopter
pilot who didn't realize his microphone.

Speaker 1 (00:14):
Was on July married. That's about the only way you
can really say it. But I am not looking at
now at all. I uh, I just had a bunch
of debacles with my personal life. Yes, it's true. I
know it's hard to believe. I got nothing right now,
got nothing, got nothing, not really looking trying to find
myself and be happy. I'm being serious about that. I

(00:35):
want to be beholden to no one at this moment,
you know, do I got lonely, so I got cats.

Speaker 2 (00:44):
To chopper Bill who's out there live with the reports crying.

Speaker 1 (00:52):
Yes, I love bourbon, Bourbon, going for whiskey. Loved the
bourbon goes again. All right, kids, we're making our way
to Torrents.

Speaker 2 (01:12):
Yeah, we have to pay attention to when your microphone
is on, if you work around microphones, or if you're
posting a video or your email, things like that. There's
also a news story that's making headlines today about an
awkward moment that happened at a company the other day.
Sorry about that. I don't know why the music was
starting there anyway? Where a Microsoft teams chat. A former

(01:37):
employee explained that he received a Microsoft team's chat. It
was a group chat that included himself, his boss, and
another manager. It was definitely not meant for him in
the entire office to see. But the message read sorry
for the late note, but I plan to terminate blank
the guy on Monday. Unfortunate timing since it will be

(01:58):
awkward if he shows up. No, And that went out
to the entire company.

Speaker 3 (02:04):
Not embarrassing, but really embarrassing.

Speaker 4 (02:07):
Well, that's one way to find out you're getting terminated.

Speaker 5 (02:09):
So is there a lawsuit on your hands there?

Speaker 2 (02:12):
I have no idea.

Speaker 4 (02:13):
Something there, there's something there, something there. I mean, could
you link a GoFundMe and then be like okay? Because
that was like psychological like stress for stress.

Speaker 2 (02:23):
Have you ever sent an awkward work email or team's
chat when you didn't realize that people were on it
that weren't supposed to be on it? Call us up
eight eight three four three one six one text in
four one o six one. Because people online are also
sharing the moments that they've had on their Microsoft teams
or Slack or whatever you use a work. One person
said that they said, Oh, my boss is being such

(02:45):
a pain today, I'll be chokes on his kale smoothie.
Send it to the entire team, including the boss.

Speaker 4 (02:53):
What happens if you're the boss and you see that?
Do you just find it hilarious? Or like, can you
get in trouble?

Speaker 3 (02:58):
Why would you get in trouble?

Speaker 4 (02:59):
I don't know. We test that theory and see what happens.

Speaker 5 (03:02):
They're not you could use Victoria to test it.

Speaker 2 (03:05):
Yeah, said that The boss actually responded and said, I
switched to spinach. Thanks for the concern. That's fine, that's cute.

Speaker 3 (03:16):
I sent emails before with the wrong like not within
our company, but like with the wrong company people, and
but I didn't really happened. No one responded except for one
guy actually responded that, hey, Vic Toria, I don't think
you meant to send this to everyone, but good luck
with how this turns out. I was like, oh, okay, thanks,
how Doe Bradon he got mad at me.

Speaker 4 (03:34):
But that's about it. And that's the end of every
story Victoria tell's and then Brad got mad at me.

Speaker 1 (03:41):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (03:42):
Another person shared online an awkward moment that they had
when they sent a work email and they were meaning
to send it I guess to their partner, but accidentally
send it to their entire sales team. I don't know
how you make that mistake, but the email was, hey, babe,
can't wait to get home and give you a full
body massage. Entire sales team.

Speaker 4 (04:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (04:04):
Also, that's a text message, not an email.

Speaker 4 (04:07):
Do people do that? Do they dirty email?

Speaker 3 (04:12):
Like?

Speaker 4 (04:12):
That's weird to me?

Speaker 5 (04:13):
Apparently.

Speaker 4 (04:14):
I don't know why. I think sending a picture via
text is safer than doing it through the email, But
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (04:19):
I don't think you.

Speaker 4 (04:20):
Should do either. But you know what, if you're gonna
do one, you gotta keep it fresh.

Speaker 2 (04:23):
Hey Carmen, Yeah, you have an awkward work Slack or
teams or email moment?

Speaker 1 (04:32):
Yes, I did, but I created it myself on purpose.
Who I was on Slack and I changed my user
name to a systems administrator.

Speaker 2 (04:44):
Bot okay, and then I put out a message that
effective immediately, everybody is terminated. You know, please log out
this and.

Speaker 1 (04:55):
That, and dude, everybody took it seriously.

Speaker 4 (05:00):
I mean, did you end it was a.

Speaker 2 (05:06):
No, I didn't. I just ended it with look like
binary code zero zero one two zero zero and and
and like I am sitting in the cubicle, like my
cubicle looking over in the rest of the room, watching
everybody like panic, like log out of their things, calling
their wives, calling.

Speaker 4 (05:33):
IRMA is coming for you.

Speaker 3 (05:34):
Cast some major fights at homes for some.

Speaker 1 (05:36):
Of those men.

Speaker 2 (05:37):
Someone else said that they accidentally sent this to a
thread with the client on it that they were that
they were dealing with, and it said, can we just
admit the client has no clue what they're doing and
is winging it harder than a drunk uncle of karaoke?
The client was c seed on the email.

Speaker 4 (05:56):
How are we not checking our emails before we send them?
I have never done this, knock on.

Speaker 5 (06:00):
What I did this once? I got fired once and
I sent to the group that I worked with. I said,
this guy can't lead his way out of a paper bag.
I can't wait to see the dumpster fire this turns
into nice. He was on that group chat, but I
picked the I picked the wrong group chat, which is
why on the Jubile show, I'm so careful about how
we name our group chats?

Speaker 4 (06:23):
How many different versions of our group chats you have?
And who are you talking about about in the end?

Speaker 5 (06:28):
No, you know, whenever we travel, I'm like, this is
a jubil show plus so and so chat. I always go.

Speaker 1 (06:35):
It's not just.

Speaker 5 (06:39):
That I'm scared.

Speaker 2 (06:44):
I say so many things that you shouldn't say on work,
things that I always I'll send it and then I'll
open back up in double check, like three or four times,
like okay, good, that was only too supposed to be.

Speaker 1 (06:54):
You know what, I don't care. I am married. I
am legally married. I am legally married. That's not the
only way you can really say. But I am knocking
right now at all. I uh just had a bunch
of debacles with my personal life.

Speaker 2 (07:08):
Just waiting to go on the air to report on traffic.

Speaker 1 (07:11):
Got nothing right now, got nothing, got nothing. Not really
looking trying to find myself and be happy. I'm being
serious about that. I want to be beholden to no
one at this moment, you know, do I got lonely?
Of course, of course, But I got cats.

Speaker 2 (07:24):
Back to jam phone every single hour on the twenties.
The next one is coming up right after this