Woman's 'hilarious' work from home fail while holidaying in Bali
Louise Howard had just started a meeting with her boss and external stakeholders when she heard a loud voice outside.
With more workers being able to 'work from home' thanks to the internet and a post-pandemic shift, some are taking the opportunity to travel while they make a living. However, it doesn't always go smoothly.
Louise Howard had been preparing for an important meeting for weeks and had set herself up in a Balinese hotel room to conduct the meeting over 12,000 kilometres away from "big execs" listening in from London. It didn't quite go to plan.
"The moment she jumped on the call with all the big execs there was a crazy, loud sound that started from next door... we didn't realise they had a traditional Balinese dance performance happening that night," her Aussie friend Montana Lowrey-Palmer told Yahoo News.
For over an hour, Louise conducted the meeting while vibrant music and "wooing and clapping" could be heard mere metres from her laptop. Montana admitted she was impressed by her friend's ability to "zone out and just keep going".
"She's such a gun... I was losing it because there's no way I could handle myself like that... she still delivered the best presentation, she's so good at her job," she said.
Employer 'didn't say anything' while meeting continued
Louise believes her boss and the external stakeholders in the meeting somehow couldn't hear the music — or at least they "didn't say anything" and let her continue.
"It was very funny but she handled it like it was nothing, as if she was in a boardroom and there were people sitting in front of her and not just a screen," Montana said. "Afterwards we both just cracked up, it was hilarious... she just couldn't believe it."
Friends defend work-from-home format despite Bali work fail
There has been a push from major Aussie companies in recent months to get workers back in the office after the Covid pandemic forced workers to work from home. However, despite the Bali incident, the friends believe this shouldn't be held as an example of why remote working should become a thing of the past.
"We have a different landscape today. We can work from anywhere because we have the technology to manage that style of working and when these things happen... it's definitely not a reason to say working from anywhere is a bad thing
"She's happy and she's able to do other things rather than just sit at a desk all day, so I feel like it produces a high quality of work," Montana said.
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