LPT: TIFU by having five large African American gentlemen set as my background image for a conference call. ,

Over lockdown it became an ongoing joke amongst my circle to use funny and often inappropriate background images over our weekly social calls.

Now there is an iconic image of petite actor Piper Perri surrounded by 5 large African American gentlemen, I appropriately chose this as my zoom background and unfortunately forgot about it until friday morning when I was due in for a conference call, upon opening my video, and to my horror the board was greeted by myself and five large, very friendly gentlemen smiling back at them, I promptly disconnected my video and apologised however I am now due for a talk with HR on Monday.

TL;DR – Set my background image on zoom as a scene from a porno, forgot to take it off before a work call, promptly got called in by HR.

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Over lockdown it became an ongoing joke amongst my circle to use funny and often inappropriate background images over our weekly social calls.

Now there is an iconic image of petite actor Piper Perri surrounded by 5 large African American gentlemen, I appropriately chose this as my zoom background and unfortunately forgot about it until friday morning when I was due in for a conference call, upon opening my video, and to my horror the board was greeted by myself and five large, very friendly gentlemen smiling back at them, I promptly disconnected my video and apologised however I am now due for a talk with HR on Monday.

TL;DR – Set my background image on zoom as a scene from a porno, forgot to take it off before a work call, promptly got called in by HR.

By Diario

37 thoughts on “LPT: TIFU by having five large African American gentlemen set as my background image for a conference call.”
  1. LPT: set your settings to ‘camera always off’ when entering a call. Once in, click on the arrow next to “Start Camera” then “Video settings” to make sure everything looks good. I do it every single time out of paranoia

  2. I guess HR wants to take the time to thank you for your swift efforts at correcting the error immediately? I could imagine there’d actually be a problem if you didn’t take any corrective action.

  3. Dude’s first day at our company joined an all company zoom call with the user name 666_devilcock. He quickly disconnected and rejoined with his real name.

    Luckily for him we’re a small company and we all just found it funny.

  4. I play D&D with my friends over Zoom. One of my friends seems to share his Zoom with his family, because whenever he logs on the name is set to his teenage son’s name.

    For whatever reason, this player always sets his background as a screenshot of his character miniature from HeroForge. His character is a massive armored Minotaur.

    I have often imagined his son, logging in for class or to talk to his friends or whatever he uses the Zoom for- only to have a big Minotaur peering over his shoulder.

  5. I posted that background on Facebook last summer and was banned from Facebook for sharing pornography. Everyone was clothed, and Piper was edited out.

    I’m better off without Facebook, but it still makes me really angry.

  6. Assuming you’re using a personal account for zoom calls at work (why would you use a work account for social calls to your friends?) then just tell them the truth.

    Everyone, HR included, will find the loneliness and need for a joking pick me up with friends in this “unprecedented” times relatable. You’ll likely get a warning but it’s better than trying to lie or shift responsibility onto another person where it may backfire.

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