Last Friday I had to make a presentation to the new Management team of my department at work.
People I had never met in my life + topic out of my comfort zone, this should have given me enough pressure to do things right. But this would have been without counting on my current lack of passion and motivation for my work (already discussed here and here).

On Friday, I started my day by going through my google reader. This FTE comics made me laugh (the one used to illustrate this post).
I then finished my power point just a few minutes before the meeting.

I didn't manage to organize my screens correctly so I didn't get access to the notes that I was supposed to follow during the 20 minutes of my presentation... I got a bit lost in my slides and my manager ended having to tell me what I was forgetting to talk about. He wasn't impressed!

My phone rang in the middle of my presentation with this ring tone that I keep thinking that I should change, really... a ring tone starting by ' Everybody be cool, this is a robbery! Any of you fucking pricks move, and I'll execute every motherfucking last one of you!' is funny but maybe not the most appropriate at work.
And have you noticed that it's when your phone is playing the most embarrassing music that it always takes you ages to switch the sound off?

But I think I could have considered this presentation as not completely disastrous if I hadn't committed any more mistakes... mmmmm... yeah, it would still have been ok if I hadn't forgotten to turn off my twitter application...
But yeah.. the issue with these background applications is that they not always stay in the background and guys, you had a lot to tweet about on Friday afternoon!

So I learned a lesson during what will be the worst presentation I would have ever made in my professional career:  always, always, always turn off twhirl before a meeting.

Noted?