1/ Now that this is public, I can tell the story.

My boss asked me to investigate this work.
I was super busy so it took a while to get to it but I scheduled time with the team.

At my next 1x1 went like this: https://www.theverge.com/2020/7/22/21334622/microsoft-eye-contact-surface-pro-x-video-chat-ai-correction-feature-rolling-out

2/
Me:
I set up time to drill into gaze tracking.

Boss:
WHAT?!!

Me:
I'm going to work with the team tracking gaze like you asked me to.

Boss (UTTERLY CONFUSED and VISIBLY UPSET!):
WTF are you talking about?

3/
Note to self:
It is a best practice to use the phrase "Eye tracking" so that no one confuses it with "gays tracking".

I think I was close to getting fired on that one.