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Pro tip: my laptop died in a Chiang Mai cafe and I had to finish a project with just my phone
I was in the middle of a client video edit with a tight deadline when my three year old MacBook Pro just shut off and wouldn't turn back on. I had to use a free app on my phone to do the final cuts and upload the file from a spotty mobile hotspot, which took over two hours. What's your backup plan for when your main gear fails in a random city?
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ray_martinez8223h agoMost Upvoted
Honestly sounds like a bit of a made up crisis. I mean you got the work done on your phone, right? The client probably never knew. Maybe it's just me but calling that a gear failure disaster feels dramatic. It's just a slow upload, not like your phone died too. People work from phones all the time now.
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kim.jake22h ago
The phone bricking is the gear failure though... that's the whole point.
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lewis.finley22h agoTop Commenter
Wait, hold up. You're all missing the trust factor. If a client sees you scrambling because your gear died mid-task, it looks sloppy. They start wondering if you'll drop the ball later too. It's not about the work getting done, it's about seeming reliable. A bricked phone during a call is like your tools breaking on a job site, it just kills confidence.
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mia70022h ago
My buddy's phone bricked mid-meeting.
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