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TIFU by playing video games during a video conference and forgetting to mute my mic

So my shitty day starting by driving my two kids to school and kindergarten. My first mistake was dropping the eldest off at school first, causing her to make a huge scene, "because she wanted to be dropped off last". Big drama. Tears, yelling, the works. Somehow get her sent to school and the other to kindergarten.

Drive home to work remotely (pretty standard office work). Decide to play some dota 2 to blow off some steam, while attending our regular weekly meeting. It's a pretty basic meeting that is rarely relevant to my work, as it is basically our head manager relaying broad information from the whole company, but I attend in case something of relevance turns up. About 150 people usually attend. I sign in before the meeting starts, mute my webcam and microphone and queue up a game of dota.

As is the case with many video games, things get heated. After about 5 minutes, my lane partner starts flaming me, due to us not agreeing how to play the lane. So I say "it's way too early to flame bro" and keep playing. A couple of minutes pass and things are still going poorly. My teammate keeps flaming, and I just can't deal with more shit so I say "whatever, muted" and keep playing.

About 30 seconds pass and I notice I'm getting pinged on Teams, Outlook and via texts on my phone. Six different people from different departements are telling me my mic is on and they can hear everything. Mortified, I check the video call. I muted my webcam and the audio from the video call, instead of my own microphone. I desperately sign out, sign back in and mute correctly. Apparently our head manager has been saying "can whoever has their mic on please mute it" a couple of times already. I thank the people giving me a heads up embarrassed but trying to shrug it off, finish the match while on the call and feel horrible the rest of the day, although not hearing anything else about it.

Anyway, we still one the game, even though I played like shit, we lost all lanes, and we had no business winning it, lol.

TL;DR I was arguing with a teammate in a video game, while unknowingly broadcasting to about 150 people in a video meeting. EDIT: formatting

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