Monday meetings are usually predictable: dashboards, forecasts, and too much coffee. But this week, one of our remote teammates gave us a front-row seat to a work-from-home disaster so unexpected, so unforgettable, that our entire team is still laughing about it. Let’s just say… pudding was involved, and professionalism was not.

I need to confess something. I’m a meeting faker. Not in the “I skip them” kind of way. No. I actually create fake meetings for myself on...

Leadership’s all-hands started in 2 minutes. Our fancy 360° “owl” conference mic refused to talk to Teams. Centralized IT cheerfully suggested “turn it off and on” from 1,200 miles away. We survived—with a backup plan and a healthy fear of USB-C hubs.