The Zoom Conference

Ashlyn Flowers started her work day like so many during these days of lockdowns and shelter in place orders. She brewed a wonderful cup of French roast coffee and sipped it while enjoying her spinach and goat cheese omelet. The mother of three knew she would be helping her children with their online school work throughout the day and then end with a run before dinner. But first she needed to catch up with her workmates in this morning’s Zoom conference.

The law firm where Ms. Flowers has been employed as a paralegal for a decade had used that online conference tool since the stay at home order began. “We had been using it smoothly for the first few days,” law partner Jenny Chalmers calmly stated. “The Ashlyn incident was a major blunder. It wasn’t long after that when we decided to move to a different platform.”

“The coffee usually makes me go early and I made my way to the loo,” Ms Flowers tried to explain. “I swear I pushed the icon to stop my video feed, but maybe I hit the mic mute instead.” Or perhaps she double clicked it as we sometimes do with icons which meant it turned back on. Whatever the cause Ashlyn’s camera kept rolling for her fifteen colleagues as she dropped her drawers in the toilet and sat and peed.

“I didn’t see anything,” Fred Barnes exclaimed during the revealing video feed while his colleagues looked on without warning Ashlyn. A mixture of glee, shock, surprise, and befuddlement came over the faces of the conference participants. “But no one said ‘hey Ashlyn your camera is on.’ If she had her mic muted I guess it wouldn’t have mattered,” her husband stated regretfully.

 “I’d say she was about half way through the piss before she yanked up her drawers,” explained Wanda Summers, a fellow para. “The poor thing said she kept watching over the recorded version again and again to see if you could see her … well, you know.”

Ms Flowers stated that the company's copy was quickly deleted by everyone except whoever leaked it to social media. Now most people in the country have seen her … well, you know.

Many of the law firms' lawyers suspect Jack Bean was the leaker. Rolando Contessa, one of the younger lawyers in the group stated “Jack started to take his shirt off during meetings. You know Matthew Mcconaughey style. He’s ripped so he’d strut like a peacock a bit and then acted like ‘oh I’m sorry I forgot I was on the cam.’ He’d then laugh and snicker.”

“It might be Omar, though,” Contessa mused. “You see him leering at the young paras they hire. That old bastard probably has a thousand bathroom spy vids at home.”