(not) Muting a Video Conference

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I'm at a video conference with my boss. I sit next to him in the meeting room which has a spare desk phone on the table. Halfway through the meeting my boss sneaks a look at the desk phone, reaches over and pushes the mute button. He starts whinging about how boring the meeting is. I start dying inside and pointedly glance at the VC. He brushes me off and says he muted it. I desperately mouth to him that it's a VC not a teleconference. He tells me to speak up because he can't hear me.

The Executive President on the screen said he could hear us perfectly.

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