After I was laid off, an account person from my former agency connected me with a friend who ended up offering me a job 🙌🏻
Would it be appropriate to send a thank you gift? And if so, what? In the past, I’ve sent wine but I don’t know him super well + the world feels less boozy these days. Although he is a boomer if that helps.

Hi everyone! In your experience, what is the one tool / must-have / methodology any of your companies use to bring about a cohesive and comprehensive go-to-market strategy in the launch of new products and services? As a company scales, coordinating cross-functionally and across time zones is becoming increasingly challenging so we have identified that we need frameworks or tools to help us go-to-market in a less clumsy, more coordinated fashion. Would love to get your ideas on this.

Strange as it sounds, I'm kinda gonna miss quarantine life.

You found your perfect creative partner. How fo you successfully get hired together?

We just moved into a 50 year old house. We got the popcorn ceiling removed in the garage plus had the walls done. We didn’t use an official asbestos expert because of the price.

The horrible, dirty people that lived there before us left us a crappy mess. Hope we are not exposed, nor the neighbors.

Any book recommendations for someone looking to get into a Product Owner / Manager role?

What do you guys think would classify as a good savings amount by the age of 30?

Got offered a freelance job thats $200 below my usual rate. Its for a pitch. Is it fair if I tell them that Im happy with the rate for a 10 hour work day but afterwards, I’d charge for OT?

Is there anyone that knows much about battle spares manager and knows what's a decent salary with this position?

Did anyone see their salary or bonus increase due to COVID? If so, how? Did you change jobs?

What is flexible compensation in KPMG? Is it like variable pay which depends on company’s performance or your rating? And what is the % of performance bonus which we can expect?

Hope everyone in IFS is hanging in during this crazy COVID-19 time.

Do any of your companies offer coworking benefits? For instance if you’re fully remote, do they offer a monthly stipend to be used at coworking locations near you? Or anything similar in nature?

From where to get CID form ? It is mentioned on ibegin portal that for those residing in Mumbai, CID form is mandatory.

I do things (late nights/weekends) that I don't think my managers/partner knows about since everything is running well - directly correlated with elected hours spent. Is it weird to bring this up?

I rearrange my home office several times a year. Idk why but every 4 months I need to change it up. Anyone else do this?

What if there was a reverse Wordle? You take other peoples word charts, start with the daily word and try to figure out what words they used to get there.

Kitne baje aega letter

Grey Merge with AKQA, VMLYR merges with Geometry. Are those „mergers” just the coverups for potential wave of layoffs?

Where you fish getting ad industry news? I can’t bring myself to pay for publications like AdAge, Campaign or AdWeek, but I want to know which accounts and teams are moving around.

How long does your agency usually give your creative teams to concept new campaign ideas before the first internal review?

Can anyone from PMG let me know what the culture is like at that agency and if they recommend someone going there as a manager (Analytics)? Have an offer but as usual the internet reviews are stuff of nightmares but that’s typical of agencies

Strange as it sounds, I'm kinda gonna miss quarantine life.

You found your perfect creative partner. How fo you successfully get hired together?

What do you do when you have down time at work?

How long can you go without having anything to do before you get laid off?

How do you handle remote teams being in different time zones? Right now we have a ton of team leaders on the west coast with the core team on the east coast and because of that urgent requests keep coming down after hours with the expectation to address it immediately. So at this point we’re working from 8am until like 11pm and nobody knows what to do to push back on it

On the job hunt in London and considering a portfolio website. Thoughts on how to manage that with NDAs?

Are there any amazing creative directors in Minneapolis? I need someone I can believe in if I'm gonna move there.

Is anyone expecting agency layoffs at the moment?

CFOs shall be regretting any budgets approval for Cannes right now.

As a designer, do you still use a print portfolio? Is that even a thing anymore? If not, do you use tablet, laptop, or...?

So by how much exactly does W+K NY lowball creatives? Any ranges for senior creatives or CDs?

"That's what I do: drink and know things" - Tyrion Lannister and every agency creative ever

My new agency’s healthcare plan only has ONE physician in NYC listed as in-network... is a plan this limited the norm?!

I am 38, but I swear I was 18, like, the other day! I don't understand...😱