If there’s one thing we’ve all learned over the past year, it’s that there are so, so many things that can go wrong when you’re conducting important business over Zoom.
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Whether it’s failing to realize a camera or mic is on, being disrupted repeatedly by pets and children, or using office backgrounds but failing to disguise that you’re actually on Zoom while driving, the ways to screw things up on video chat, it turns out, are just about endless.
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One man making an appearance in virtual court recently had his own incredible faux pas.
Nathaniel Saxton apparently failed to check his username before he logged on to speak to the judge, but others in the room noticed right away.
The defendant doesn’t seem to have a single clue that he’s made such a horrible mistake when the judge asks him his name. He respectfully replies with his actual name, only to have the judge ask him to clarify that his name is not, in fact, “Buttf—ker 3000.”
“What kind of idiot logs into court like that?” the judge demands.
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Saxton didn’t seem to have a clue how that became his username, but according to The Daily Beast, he later admitted it’s an inside joke that’s the “pairing name for his Bluetooth speaker,” although he still wasn’t sure how it became his Zoom name.
“I’m embarrassed, I’m sorry,” he told the court.
While none of us want a viral Zoom mishap in our own lives, we still have room to laugh at others while cringing with secondhand embarrassment.
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Look, showing up to court with as colorful of a username as that is definitely the kind of thing you want to avoid, but the people who suggested the judge maybe chill out a bit and cut the guy some slack also had a point. Zoom life has been hard on all of us, and if you’re not using the tech every day, you might be more inclined to mess up when you do.
But let’s just hope we all learn from Buttf— uh, Nathaniel’s mistake.
*First Published: May 12, 2021, 6:55 am
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