Coworking manager in Medellin told me I was using the noise-canceling headphones wrong

He said I had them pointed backwards so the mic wasn't picking up my voice, I flipped them around and suddenly my client calls stopped getting complaints about mumbling, anyone else find out they were doing something basic wrong for months?

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the_miles23d ago

Ha, wait. So you were basically wearing them like a set of backwards headphones for months? That's impressive in its own weird way. I'm not judging, I had a buddy who used his webcam microphone for Zoom calls for a whole year before someone told him his laptop had a built-in mic. It happens to the best of us, man. At least you caught it and it fixed the problem, right?

linda_clark23d ago

I mean, I actually read something the other day about how a lot of people don't realize their headphones might be on backwards because most of them look almost the same on both sides now. I guess with the old ones you could tell because the wire came out of one side but now everything's wireless and it's a mess. Your buddy with the webcam mic is honestly hilarious though, like did no one in any of those Zoom meetings say anything? Maybe it's just me but I feel like someone would've spoken up after a year. Anyway, at least he's not alone in the tech facepalm club.