For the past few months, you’ve been pining away for your best friend’s coworker who you met at a happy hour. You haven’t pursued anything because he’s been dating another girl on and off but when one of his social networking profiles alerts you to his newly single status, you IM your friend in excitement.
She doesn't respond, but she calls you later that night to tell you that her laptop had been hooked up to the projector in the conference room when you messaged her. Unfortunately, she was in a meeting with your crush and his boss, and she didn’t close the window in time; they saw everything. Your friend is humiliated and so are you. How do you handle this?
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well, for one, she should be humiliated, cuz that's just awkward. but it's her own fault for having her IM enabled while she was doing a presentation. so i would say sorry to her, but ultimately, it's her bad.
as for the guy, i would make a joke of it. i would use this to your advantage and just make a joke to him about how utterly humilated you are, and how you're so sorry and can he possibly forgive you for such an embarassing situation! and if he flirts back and says he forgives you etc. then the ball is in his court to make a move. at this point, you have nothing to lose, considering you don't work together, and he knows you like him now!
and if nothing comes of it and he's not interested, you avoid him from now on.
1I would be embarrassed and laugh it off.
But seriously, I don't think I would be in a situation like this. I only discuss sensitive matters like that with close, trusted friends during private get-togethers, i.e. nobody else would be present.
2laugh it off..
it could have been worse
3Laugh it off it really isn't that big of deal chances are he figured out you had thing for him. Plus your friend should feel stupid for not having her IM turned off during a presentation.
4Why on earth would you have your instant messenger open while giving a presentation at work!? That is just crazy and you were just asking for it. There's not much you can do, the guy knows you like him, so now he makes a move or he doesn't. Other than that, just avoid all involved like the plague until it dies down a little bit, hahahhahah.
5omg hahaha how embarrassing. i think i'd die.
first of all your friend is a freakin genius for leaving her instant messenger on during a presentation at work.
i would just laugh it off nervously. i mean what else can you do? hahaha
6sounds like a bad movie...
7Ugh, turn the IM off during a presentation! I see this happen all the time (I work in comp. tech) and it bugs me. Of course things like this are going to happen - how would your friend know where you are when she IMs you? There's a time and a place...
Otherwise, it's pretty embarrassing, but just laugh it off. A good friend would also try and apologize to her embarrassed friend and talk to the guy for her.
8Me too Jade Angel... my client ALWAYS has his on during presentations that he gives.
But my point is...
why do you not say hello first? and wait for a reply? especially during work hours! Its just rude!
9I would ignore it and try to move on as quickly as possible, even though it would kill me knowing my crush and his boss saw everything. Then I would apologise to my friend profusely and try to make up for it.
Having said that, it's funny because I actually sent my bf an email on the day of his super important presentation saying HI HONEY!!! I BET YOU'RE DOING YOUR PRESENTATION RIGHT NOW!!!! GOOD LUCK!!!!" and he was actually giving his presentation and needed a link from his Outlook inbox ... yup, his laptop was hooked up to the projector and yup, my email popped up for everyone to see.
I felt so bad.
10I'd have her tell her co-worker 'well obviously she's excited you're single now so you guys should totally hang out' lol
11Haha oh wow. I have a job where I give a lot of presentations and I always make sure any messaging clients are turned off, including email. Way too risky... I always chat with my bf on GoogleTalk so I have to take these precautions. I think the worst similar thing that has happened was my boss was standing at my desk asking me to do something on my screen and all of a sudden I had a message pop up from the bf saying hi. At least he didn't say "hi sexy" or something like that!
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