The Public House Discussions

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

Are resume writers worth it for designers?
Anyone have a good experience with one in general?

What’s your “fun fact” when forced to share with the group?

Any and all thoughts about essence partners?

God gives his toughest briefs to his best creatives 😌

Tired of this constant grind and constant layoff situation in NYC. Thinking of making the move to LA. Any thoughts? Yay or nay?

Has anyone worked at a brand studio like the New York Times’ one? Seems like every media outlet has one now. What’s the work, hours, pay, and culture like?

What is your agency’s maternity or paternity leave policy?

When your old 100+ person agency has a BLM message on their website but only employed one black person while you worked there.

Anyone else just waiting for impending layoffs or are we at the end of the recent wave?

I'm having trouble. I have a client who is going from a climbing company, to a fitness company. They have a product that lets them expand from where they are. I am failing to sell them on the importance of strategy and taking a step back. Honestly, I don't even know that I'm sold on it. But I feel like it's important. Anyone have ideas on how to argue for this? Happy to share more info

Anyone have spine surgery lately? How did it go? What hospital and doctor?

Any tips for job searching while currently employed? I'm finding it hard to have the mental energy to job search after a long day at my current job (I've been leaving at 6-7pm often ugh).

Thoughts on CP+B Boulder? What is the vibe like there? Who are the clients?

What's the best way to gain visibility by those holding 3-4 positions higher than you? I like learning from them and growing mentorships but can't break the AE-level wall with my responsibilities. Being remote also makes it harder to interact.

I'm on the client/business side but would love to hear anyone's thoughts.

How is it legal for agencies to make you work unpaid overtime on nights, weekends and holidays with the thinly veiled threat of losing your job for lack of "performance" ?

Havas London announced WFH last night but our team’s boss emailed us a couple of minutes afterwards asking us to come in so that we can work our a rota for the next two weeks!

DDB’s hours are 8:30-5:30 (obviously advertising isn’t always 9-5) but are you expected to log on by 8:30 (be at the office by 8:30post covid) everyday or is it the standard 9am?

Who did the Lean Cuisine #ItAll campaign?

Anyone have a crypto kitty?

Hi , need likes for DM Feature , Thank you.

Hi. Looking to transition out of consulting.

3+ years of HR Transformation including HRIS Analysis.
2+ years of Strategy and Operations

Interested in HR Transformation, Human Capital, DE&I, and Strategy & Operations.

Could someone point me in a new direction?

Anybody joined wipro recently??
I have my onboarding this Monday on 1st August. How much time did it take for you to get the laptop??

And what type of joining kit you got ??

Hi Techies,

Having an overall experience of 11 years, in which 6 years in Multi-Cloud, DevOps, Cloud Engineering, Cloud Cost Management, Governance and FinOps.

Any chances of oppurtunities in abroad with sponshorship?

I left my job without having anything else lined up otherwise I would have had a mental breakdown. I’m not even in that great of a financial place, but it was my job or my sanity. I know at least three other people who, in the past few months, have left with nothing lined up. I feel like it’s something we need to be talking more about. This isn’t normal for people to be doing this right?

Elephant in the room ... The country flags on this group are not ordered alphabetically. Haha.

How is SagiTec Pune ,
Is it a good company to switch in?

Accenture can you guys go back to Marriott and fix their customer service please I've been on hold for 30 minutes and I still have missing nights

How to/best way to change a widescreen presentation to standard without breaking format/squishing images…?

Amazonians: is Amazon corporate totally freaking out about that center in Staten Island that unionized? Unions could kill Amazon.

List the college you went to. When you graduated. How much you pay monthly on student loans and when you think you will be done.

Current market rate for federal tax S2 in NYC?

What is the average senior tax salary in the south Florida area?

Tax - can I remain on the manager level permanently? Do they start to give below rating year on year since you are an experienced manager now and it was expected out of you so measuring against new managers/peers would be difficult?

I received an offer from Optum on the first day of joining of another organization. The offer is much much better than at which I have joined. I am really feeling low. What should I do?