New Delhi, Nov. 9 -- In a bizarre yet oddly poetic turn of events, a company's attempt to monitor remote employee activity went completely off-script - when the tracking software started tracking itself instead.

A Reddit user recently shared the hilarious mix-up in a post titled "My company installed software to track remote activity. it tracked itself instead." The story quickly went viral for exposing the irony of workplace surveillance gone wrong.

According to the post, the company had rolled out a "mouse movement tracker" - a monitoring tool meant to record remote employees' activity patterns and gauge productivity levels during work hours. The system was designed to flag idle time and low engagement.

However, as it turned out, the...