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A creative employee ditched standard corporate emails for a high-production, true-crime style Netflix trailer to ask her bosses for a 10-day Bali holiday
The woman's highly cinematic method of requesting annual leave went viral, garnering 8.3 million views on Instagram at the time of writing.
Instead of submitting a soul-crushing corporate form, an employee named Tahlia opted for premium production values to secure her upcoming holiday.
The slick clip played out like a high-stakes true crime teaser, featuring an interviewer who asked Tahlia to confess why she was acting so nervous lately
Tahlia admitted she wanted to ask her bosses, Frank and Jacques, a major question but struggled to find the right moment.
When the interviewer insisted the time was right, she finally revealed her ultimate plot: Paradise awaited her for 10 glorious days.
The trailer ends on a tense cliffhanger, leaving thousands of social media viewers wondering whether the corporate higher-ups would actually grant the request
The managers noted her recent anxiety and jokingly asked if they should respond via a trailer, leaving them to debate between a yes, a no, or a mysterious third option.
Watch the video below:
