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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/Immediate-Court4726 on 2025-05-29 23:47:38+00:00.

Today I was in a Teams meeting with about a dozen executives and other higher ups. My role in this call is to be the Tom Smykowski from Office Space (I talk to the customers so the engineers don’t have to. I have people skills.) We are all discussing a replication outage on our SQL servers. Our SQL boxes are all named numerically like SEA01-VM123, SEA01-VM25, SEA01-VM69, etc.

We’re talking about how each of these boxes are doing and I’m giving reports on each of them. We refer to the box by its number, because who wants to keep saying “SEA01-VM” like 50 times. We start with our most used machines and eventually get to SEA01-VM69, and I’m all, “how popular is sixty nine?” Instant head smack. 12 year old me is chuckling while 40 year old me is panicking. Awkward silence for a few agonizing seconds. Several people on the call go on mute. Thankfully, someone chimes in that it’s only used for limited purposes. My confidence is completely shot and I’m trying not to say anything else stupid. But it gets worse.

MS Teams has these asinine emojis that can get attached to other people’s comments. Another person in the meeting added a comment and I tried to copy it from the chat. Of course, the instant that I clicked on the text bubble to copy it, the emoji menu pops up and I accidentally clicked on the damn lol emoji. I am now super panicking and I am desperate to “undo” that lol emoji. I end up just making things worse by clicking on the “thumbs up” emoji as well.

Anyway so that’s how it’s going for me, how about you?

TL;DR TIFU by saying, “how popular is sixty nine” in a big meeting. Followed that up by adding the lol emoji to some guy’s comment. Made it worse by also adding the thumbs up. I, in fact, do not have people skills.