As global pandemic COVID-19 spread, overwhelming nations and forcing workforce indoors, ‘work from home’ became the new normal. But this came with its share of bloopers –from shirtless dad to topless wife and from reporters paring a coat with nothing to pets walking into meetings.

Hoping to stop the spread of highly-contagious coronavirus, which has claimed 479 133 lives, as on June 26, millions of people across the globe stayed home swapping their work desks with kitchen counters, dining tables, sofas and beds. But there were several incidents of the home creeping up on the work, and how?

Reporter Will Reeve appeared on ‘Good Morning America’ and recorded the segment himself but failed to angle the camera properly. With the result the 27-year-old initially appeared to be wearing a full suit but viewers quickly noticed that he had no pants on below his suit jacket and took to Twitter to call him out.

This was not the first such incident. A reporter for Suncoast News Network was filming in her kitchen when her shirtless father walked into the frame. All that the shocked anchor and reporter Jessica Lang could say was, “Dad! Holy crap!” She later shared the clip on Twitter, writing, “Work from home they said, it’ll be fine they said.”

Lizet Ocampo, the political director at People for the American Way, forgot to remove the potato filter she had downloaded for a Friday fun meeting and appeared for a Monday morning meeting as a potato. “So Monday morning, we had our meeting and I usually try to do a camera, and when we started the meeting, I saw myself as a potato. I was so confused as to why I was a potato. Of all the things I could be, why a potato?” she said, according to BuzzFeed News, adding that she could not figure out how to remove the filter. “I just kind of gave up and stayed as a potato for the rest of the call.”

Another working mom posted a hilarious incident on twitter. Pineapple Media co-founder Jenna Weiss-Berman, trying to multi-task in the company of her 3-year-old son, tweeted, “My kid just walked into my video conference, yelled ‘look at my penis,’ and hit the button on his fart machine. Working from home going really great!”.

One woman accidentally walked naked past her husband’s four-way video meeting. “Pro-tip: if you and your husband are both working from home, check to see if he’s on a four-way video call BEFORE running past the office naked to get a towel from the linen closet,” tweeted Christina Kerby after the incident.

If it is any consolation, Kerby was not alone in such a faux pas. A man walked past naked while a team video call was on. “Big WFH learning for me today. Remind Ryan to put some clothes on before he goes into the bathroom first thing in the morning. Today he walked past my team video call BUTT naked. SOOOOOOO FUNNY,” tweeted Amanda Baker.

A woman went to use her bathroom while a meeting was on. Only, she took her laptop along and forgot to switch off the camera. The result was that her colleagues witnessed her peeing and the video went viral.

The worker, referred to on the call as Jennifer, is seen walking through her home into the bathroom, pulling down her trousers and sitting on the toilet seat. Jennifer soon figured out her mistake and quickly turned the camera to the wall, but not before her colleagues noticed. 

Some pets also couldn’t keep out of the office work.  Viewers of a US-based channel witnessed a golden retriever barging into a weather forecast and refusing to move. Fox News 13-Tampa Bay’s chief meteorologist Paul Dellegatto was giving the weather update when his dog, Brody, “knocked off the computer with his head” causing the digital maps and visualisations to vanish. Dellegatto quickly asked the dog to climb in his lap and carried on with the weather forecast.

The anchor in the studio wasn’t complaining and said, “This is amazing. I love it. We don’t need to see that forecast map, we’ll just look at Brody.”