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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/onlyzarina on 2025-05-15 11:32:05+00:00.

This was literally last week and I’m still trying to pretend it didn’t happen

So I got hired for a remote role, first day was one of those group onboarding Zoom calls. Like 12 new hires and two HR people walking us through systems and policies and all that. I’m sitting at my desk in pajama shorts and a hoodie, still half asleep, camera off… or so I thought

They’re talking about company values or whatever and I kinda zone out and start eating cold leftover spaghetti straight from the container. No fork. Just caveman-ing it with my hands. I thought I was invisible. I was not.

Mid-slurp I hear, “Uh… Zack?" I think your camera’s on.”

I look up and see my own greasy little face just chomping away in full gallery view. Spaghetti hand. Hoodie hood halfway over one eye. Like a cryptid caught on film.

I panicked, slammed my laptop shut like that would reverse time or something. Reopened it, turned camera off, tried to act like my connection had dropped. Nobody said anything else but I know they saw. Chat was too quiet after that.

So yeah, pretty sure my first impression at this job is “guy who eats spaghetti with his hands at 9AM on a Monday”

TL;DR Thought my camera was off during remote onboarding, ate cold spaghetti with my hands, it very much was not off