Worst Presentation Disasters

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I found some of these presentation disasters, as recalled by a Microsoft employee, quite amusing...

http://www.microsoft.com/uk/atwork/work/presentationdisasters.mspx

In the late 1990s I was asked to give a presentation to a group of people from a Government Agency. I didn’t want to carry all of my presentation equipment, so I asked for a projector and PowerPoint to be provided.

I then turned up ready to give the presentation with my presentation on a floppy disk. In the meeting room was a 35mm slide projector. The meeting organiser pointed to the corner and said in a somewhat insulted tone,“There is the power point; we do have electricity here – we are not that backward.”
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Anyone got their own to add?
 
I once had to run out of a meeting room, across the corridor and into the men’s loo to shut off my co-presenter’s radio microphone as he was, err…, availing himself of the facilities there. Those radio mic’s have a surprisingly long range…
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Oh. Oh my. I bet everyone at that presentation still tells that story too. . . :LOL:
 
A friend (lets call him Vickers) of mine's father (let's call him Papa Vickers) had to give a presentation to some high-ups. His laptop was hooked up to the projector and he was scrolling through the contents looking for the powerpoint when he got distracted by something. No real drama, but unfortunately his cursor was hovering over an image of internet lesbians doing those things internet lesbians do, and while thumbnails may seem small they're plenty big when projected against a wall. Needless to say, none of the Vickers clan works at that company today.
 
This one comes from my wife: She was at a meeting when she worked at IBM. A Japanese guy from IBM Japan came to do a powerpoint. While he was talking his screensaver popped up and had a bunch of anime bondage porn in it.
 
Fodder said:
A friend (lets call him Vickers) of mine's father (let's call him Papa Vickers) had to give a presentation to some high-ups. His laptop was hooked up to the projector and he was scrolling through the contents looking for the powerpoint when he got distracted by something. No real drama, but unfortunately his cursor was hovering over an image of internet lesbians doing those things internet lesbians do, and while thumbnails may seem small they're plenty big when projected against a wall. Needless to say, none of the Vickers clan works at that company today.
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DemoCoder said:
This one comes from my wife: She was at a meeting when she worked at IBM. A Japanese guy from IBM Japan came to do a powerpoint. While he was talking his screensaver popped up and had a bunch of anime bondage porn in it.
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:LOL: :LOL: japanese :LOL:
 
The porn thing happening is just too easy, ya know?


If I ever had to give a presentation like that, i'd boot Ubuntu from a CD, and make sure NOT to mount any drives.

Just in case. :)
 
DemoCoder said:
This one comes from my wife: She was at a meeting when she worked at IBM. A Japanese guy from IBM Japan came to do a powerpoint. While he was talking his screensaver popped up and had a bunch of anime bondage porn in it.
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Ahahaha. The best part about this story is it probably happened unbeknownst to him, with his back to the presentation. All he saw was the faces of his audience turning and heard the sound of gasps throughout the conference room.
 
geo said:
Oh. Oh my. I bet everyone at that presentation still tells that story too. . . :LOL:
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A similar thing happened with my prof a couple years back. It was during a midterm and he walked out and he left the mic on. We heard every detail of his adventure to Tim Hortons (we have one in our main engineering building).
 
zsouthboy said:
The porn thing happening is just too easy, ya know?
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Frankly I don't see that happening for anyone with half a brain. If you're going to keep porn on your laptop, at least stick it somewhere you are not going to accidentally end up viewing one way or another. You don't put it on the desktop, internet favorites or screensaver.
 
God, I wish I could post some of my bosses presentations! The guy is slightly dislexic and can't even remember the names right, there's always some _really_ crazy stuff in there :LOL:
 
Humus said:
If you're going to keep porn on your laptop, at least stick it somewhere you are not going to accidentally end up viewing one way or another. You don't put it on the desktop, internet favorites or screensaver.
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Spoken like a man with some considerable experience ;)
 
One of my colleagues had his speakerphone stolen one day right before he gave a lecture to some undergrads. There was much giggling in the room as the guy who stole it started listening to the beatles, and then relieved himself, followed twenty minutes later by some muffled moans in the background (evidently he was jerking off to porn on his computer).

For the life of me I don't know how he managed to keep a straight face and teach his class.
 
I once had to run out of a meeting room, across the corridor and into the men’s loo to shut off my co-presenter’s radio microphone as he was, err…, availing himself of the facilities there. Those radio mic’s have a surprisingly long range…
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Heh. What's embarrassing enough for your friendly neighborhood PowerPoint presenter is even more embarrassing when you're Kyra Phillips and broadcast it on CNN during a presidential speech... :devilish:
 
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