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I screwed up. Bad…

I had a meeting conflict and forgot to mute myself at job 1 while I was speaking in my job 2 meeting.

I realized when I went back to my job 1 meeting and they asked me,

“are you busy with something else right now?”

My heart sunk to the bottom of my stomach.

Luckily, my video was off and my coworkers couldn’t see my face turn white like I saw a ghost.

I panicked internally for 3 seconds while realizing what happened.

I knew I had to say something.

Luckily, I prepared for this ahead of time.

I had concocted an excuse once I started my job 2 in case this ever happened.

“Oh sorry, my friends and I are working on a hobby side project and he called me to get an update.”

Is it a good excuse? Not really, but I said it with confidence and it saved me.

1 min later everyone in the meeting moved on, and forgot about it.

You’ll be okay if you mess up, but be prepared..

2 years ago | [YT] | 45