HS Helsinki The cat jumped on the keyboard, leaving a colleague with a hundred messages – HS readers tell of the embarrassing situations that pets cause when working remotely

Mystical messages, laptops in flight mode and secret emails forwarded. Animal assistants at home offices came up as the topic of conversation as the cats messed up the Twitter account at the track site. Now readers share their own experiences.

Home office pets do not always give their owners telecommuting peace of mind. This was what happened to a Raide-Joker employee when his two cats managed to make a cryptic update to Raide-Joker’s Twitter account.

Helsingin Sanomat’s news about cats tweeting inspired readers to share their own experiences with the little assistants at the remote office. More than 150 responses were received per day.

Especially cats often manage to cause embarrassing situations for their owners.

“My cat is copying my secret Email to a coworker as a Teams message. Fortunately, there was a close colleague. Pylly has also flashed at several meetings in the past, ”describes one reader.

“One of my three cats had booked me a half-hour meeting on ‘zzzzzzz999’.”

Cats seem to be masters at sending mysterious messages to colleagues when the owner’s eye avoids. Indeed, many teleworkers have learned through the heel that the laptop should not be left unlocked when leaving the room.

This was the case, for example, for a reader living with four cats.

“I was answering the customer by email and I decided to pick up more coffee, leaving the laptop open and in between. When I came back, the customer had already sent an answer, where confused and asked what I mean and I came to the right address now? ”

The reader scratched his head for a moment before realizing to check the thread.

“One of my cats had written the letters and characters of a cryptic mess, added a link and sent a message. I clicked on the link and there was a vacuum cleaner on the Gigant’s website. Yes, we got sweet laughs with the customer.”

“Once the plane went unlocked and the cats had jumped with a pinch. At the same time, they had sent more than 100 instant messages to a coworker. One message read. ”

“The cat has repeatedly managed to walk over the keyboard and turn the contents of the screen upside down. That’s what you’re trying to google, which was a combination of keys to normalize the situation. ”

Perhaps it’s even more confusing when a message written by a pet really means something. One reader in Helsinki had such a close-up situation.

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Very late one Saturday night, the reader’s work laptop was open as the cat walked over it. In a second, the cat had managed to open a work email, start a new message and select a Finnish-Swedish coworker as the recipient.

“In the email, it had still written the word in capital letters: ÖL, which means beer in Swedish. The message read nothing else. The cat was just stepping on the enter when luckily I had time to grab it off the keyboard! but a cat. ”

Cats have also often experienced headaches by shuffling tool settings, turning on airplane mode, turning off the microphone, or making video calls with colleagues.

“I kept training remotely as the cat walked over the laptop and managed to push over the airplane mode. The computer dropped out of the internet and so did the meeting. I was able to continue my education for a while and I deeply regretted what happened. I then heard that the cat’s butt had frozen in the video because I had been offline. To top it all off, the meeting was recorded. ”

One reader found herself in an embarrassing situation when a cat unexpectedly revealed a degree of casual workwear to colleagues.

“A nightgown on without a video remote meeting works well. Until the cat managed to turn on the video with some key. The worst part was I didn’t find myself live. ”

Sure even dogs know how to organize embarrassing moments.

“The dog started snoring loudly during a long Teams meeting. There was a bit of an explanation that it’s not me, it’s the dog that took the nap, ”the reader describes.

Another reader’s 17-year-old dog bark, on the other hand, always barks next to the desk at the same time in the morning. He says this is why he is trying to hold Teams meetings at other times.

A Helsinki-based psychologist had to interrupt a remote client meeting after his hungry dog ​​had broken into a food bag.

“In a few tens of seconds, the happy barking could gobble up a pound of dog food. It would have eaten the 15-pound sack empty and would have died in a hurry if I hadn’t gone to interrupt. humorous.”

“The page-long text was condensed by the care dog to ‘xsadwqs 1Q’.”

Although most of the situations sent by readers to HS involved cats and dogs, with occasional remote meetings also mixed with rarer pets.

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One reader describes, for example, how an energetic turtle caused quite a mecca as it ran around its glass terrarium so that its shield repeatedly bumped into the glass.

Another reader’s remote meetings may sometimes be disturbed by a roaring rooster and several minutes of laying hens.

The remote workday of the reader working next to the terrarium of his leopard geckos took a surprising turn: the field locust intended to be eaten by the geckos managed to escape from the terrarium and jumped through the reader’s face onto the keyboard.

“Of course I screamed, after which I started the tweezers outstretched after the bouncing insect bouncing the insect.”

Animal innate instincts do not look at time or place. Running time, a hunting trip, or snoring a pet can all lead to whimsical situations.

I was at a Teams meeting when my Siberian cat Wäiski was in my arms and started spinning after a while. Accustomed to the matter, of course, I did not pay any attention to it. The chairman of the meeting, the French Senior Vice President began to tighten, who dares to snore at the meeting? I then had to show the culprit via a video connection. Well, the chairman himself was a great friend of the cats and acknowledged, “Quel chat magnifique!”

One reader says he chaired the International Zoom Conference in November 2020. He sat at home with anti-noise headphones on his ears.

“At one point, I noticed that the main organizer quickly turned off my microphone when my spoke ended. The speaker I was presenting chuckled benevolently and it soon became clear that there was a loud murmur in the background of my speech. Our Hedwig cat had a running time.”

Another reader tells how his two senior cats suddenly got excited to fight in the middle of a customer meeting.

“The customer was a little confused when I instinctively shouted that‘ now it runs out! ’ during the meeting. He did understand when I opened the situation, and he laughed. ”

“My cat is out in the fenced backyard at times, and in late summer I was just in a close-knit meeting when a hysterical scream and a terrible mecca began to sound downstairs. The cat had hunted its blackbird, brought it in half dead, and my husband, who couldn’t stand such brutal hustle and bustle at all, got a hepul. I suddenly turned off the mic and the video and went to clear up the mess. ”

Monella the reader also has experience of the sudden illness of a hairy assistant at a remote office. It’s hard to keep Pokka when noises are heard from a dog fighting in the grip of a colleague’s stomach, for example.

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“The developmental conversation through Teams ended with a loud diarrhea of ​​the dog at my feet. Both the lightweight carpet and the laptop charging cord played a part, ”describes one reader.

“I was in a remote meeting with a new client, tidy and tidy up the video in my living room in the background. Everything went well until my client says, ‘Is your dog vomiting in the background?’ ”

Another reader had a job interview where he was interviewing a potential employee. Suddenly the reader’s dog began to vomit on a thick wool carpet.

He continued the interview while trying to push the dog off the mat. Unable to do this, he tried to get the writing pad on the table in front of the vomiting dog.

“I did all this imagining that the interviewee won’t notice anything. The vomiting went to the carpet, the carpet had to be taken to the laundry, but I still managed to hire the person I interviewed.”

“The stuttering of a Labrador Retriever in the middle of a Teams meeting will brighten everyone’s workday!”

Although pets have sometimes caused their owners gray hair by messing up the distant days, most often the situations are mostly laughing. Indeed, many readers reported that animal blunders in the middle of a meeting have often only delighted co-workers or themselves.

“Once my cat Eppu at the beginning of a remote meeting showed the eye to the camera – the ice had been broken. One of the participants said that it is a clear sign of trust, ”says one reader.

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