The Garage Discussions

I should wait until after New Years to cold email CDs at places I want to work at shouldn’t I.

What’s the shortest amount of time you’ve been in a mixing session before asking the producer for a new sound guy/girl?

I already have the SHRM-SCP. . would it be a value add to go for the SPHR as well?

For those who completed their SHRM certification this year (CP or SCP) and opted for self study, what study materials did you use to prepare?

Layoffs at Integer Denver today? Somebody spill....

What do you read daily to stay up to date on life, current events, advertising, pharma advertising, etc?

Besides salary, how to pick between job offers?

How much do mid-level sales people do in SaaS? (Base Salary and commission structure)

How do you go about asking for more money when you were recently given a raise, but the person directly above you leaves the agency, so you’ll be taking some of their responsibility?

not to ask a stupid question but how do you industry twitter??

do you just start replying to peoples tweets because you think they're cool or is that creepy

I am in the process of finishing up my MBA but considering also getting my SPHR or PHR cert. Is it even worth it or a waste of time and money?

Any Sales Leaders doing any of the following with their sales teams?

- Entering a new market.
- Entering an old market with a new product.
- Trying to focus sales efforts onto one objective.

I’m putting together a beta program that was successful for my current company and I want to see if it will help other leaders.

Let me know if this interests you below. Thanks!

I am the first HR professional at a small company. I am looking for an easy to use platform for performance management. I have used Bamboo and Paylocity in the past. Eventually we will want something that has a payroll component as well. What systems have you used and liked?

Does anyone else check in with their employees within 45 days of their hire? If not, how are you guys going about employee experience and engagement/onboarding?

Looking for advice! I was approved to work remotely but my salary will decrease 10%. I received two raises so the decrease brings me down to my previous salary. I was told that it’s due to the cost of labor in the area.

I’ve been with my company for 8+ yrs, I love my manager and the work I do (engagement, recognition, & wellness programs) but I feel like I’m limiting myself since I have the experience, an HRM degree, and SHRM-CP credentials.

Should I apply for roles outside the company?

Advice on taking the SHRM-SCP exam? I’m taking the exam tomorrow and not feeling as prepared as I should. Who has taken the SCP exam? How difficult did you find it?

What’s the current WFH model @Merck ? Are they doing a hybrid schedule? How many days?

I just got into reading books, any suggestions to start with? Which could help to increase media/marketing knowledge.

Hey you guys! can somebody please help me answer these questions!

1. WonderWorks wants to increase hospitality sales by 25% in the next year. What are some sales and marketing strategies you would use to increase sales with our corporate partners? Outline a variety of paid and organic tactics you would use, indicating any potential costs that may accrue in your plan.

Any recommendations for vegetarian and vegan friendly restaurants to have a nice evening? Thanks 😊

Anyone going to rolling loud music festival in Miami cinco de mayo weekend?

I’m 51 and a consultant. Am I too old to be this level. Starting to feel like it.

Last week I had to explain to my child what “politics” (as in office politics) is. My child is going to a new high school and wants to play volleyball. There was a 3 day open “tryout” for incoming freshman for 2 teams. After the first day, she noticed that
1) there were obvious favorites (coaches are not even hiding that fact);
2) some can’t even play and got on the team,
3) some that can obviously play but did not get on the team;
4) decision were obviously made before the first day was over.

Has anyone been admitted to Massachusetts by transfer of UBE score? I submitted my application in July and took and passed the state law exam today. How long after this were you admitted? Thanks!

Currently sitting on an offer for a intro/mid-level design engineer in the Raleigh-Durham Area and wanted to get an idea of the average paybands, online sites have such a large range (50k-400k) that it is hard to narrow in on a price to start negotiating

Are there life science firms that allow fully remote work? Is there any disadvantage of being remote?

Looking for help/advice for case study interview in consulting firm in Canada. It’s a role in supply chain/retail vertical- I come from a merchandising background in retail

Lady 🐠 looking for hair salon recommendation in Reston/Centreville/Manassas area - bonus if they can cut bangs well as I’m trying to grow mine out! TIA

How many how of you think BDO should also rollout Mobile purchase policy like Deloitte and PWC is giving 35k to purchase mobile for office use?

Joining BNP Paribas for role of Senior BA in bangalore, is the Bangalore office new? How many employees are there? How is company culture? Management etc, I had other offers from societe generale and hsbc similar offer but in hsbc the role was of a manager in compliance risk analytics domain, bnp is in trade and investment banking domain, I choose bnp, was it a good choice?

So someone I know asked HR about a boot policy. When he found out that there wasn’t one, but his boss said there was (who gave the guys $ for boots and the claimed it on his expense reimbursements as something else) the boss got mad at him for askingHR (and in trouble for the expense reimbursements) and then 2 days later laid off my friend. There appears to be no notice of bad performance and this person always was the first person on the job site ready to work. Thoughts?

How is the morale in your groups especially with constant layoff news in the market?

Is it too early to apply for jobs with Q4 start?

Hi Everyone,
I am currently working in technical support in cloud at TCS for 1.4 years. The work is very rudimentary and almost no skill is required for it.
I want to switch to BA role and I have done few certifications, learnt Tableau, Excel and MySQL but I am still not getting interviews.
Any suggestions on what should I do?

As a Male how does this benefit work ? Wife has benefit from her employer as well. What can i use my benefit for?