Anyone else job hunting during busy season?

So how many people were let go this week at Leo Burnett with the news Philip Morris (Altria) is moving $$ away from cigarette promotions?

What's your worse experience working in customer support?

Here's mine: I was working in the call center and I was explaining to a customer that he had used up all his credit and that's why he couldn't surf the Internet on his phone. He started to insult me for 8 minutes and, due to company policies, I could not hang up until he had finished.

If you break into MBB through an implementation arm can you transfer practices (e.g. procurement implementation to Marketing & Sales)

Senior Manager looking to make a switch within Saudi Arabia but willing to consider GCC too. I’ve 11 years experience in retail banking in U.K. and Europe and spent the last 3 years in Saudi Arabia. If any Fish can provide recommendation do let me know. I’ve tried connecting with regional recruiters but they’re just paper pushers.

Best family friendly places to live in Dubai?

Hi fishies! Considering an internal big 4 move from Western Europe to Dubai. Not sure about WLB and whether there’ll be enough growth and learning opportunities after reading some of the threads here. Anyone up for sharing their experience? Especially concerned about sexism / racism as a WOC…and whether moving back to Europe in a few years will be difficult because the ME experience won’t be considered valuable.

What's the process for leaving the firm? Is there a formal process that I have to go through or do I just tell my PML that I took another opportunity and I'm out in 2 weeks?

Any recommendations for luxury bag shopping in Rome? Stores you loved, tax rebate advice…

Hello Guys, Welcome to this group. Here you can post all available Salesforce freelance opportunities.

In HCL, I believe that iSuccess Learning Portal is the only Portal for the Learning Stuff or any other Portal is there.

Kindly inform guys.

To those of you who are planning to apply to MBA: Make sure you choose your recommender CAREFULLY. Really evaluate the person you’re requesting the letter from, their personality, and their relationship with you. You don’t want to be back stabbed like me 🙃

Any good books for someone trying to understand the business side of marketing? Just got my review an they're asking I bring more of that MBA mindset to projects I'm on.

Hello fam! Hope you’ll are enjoying your Sunday!

I faked my resume I mean my contracting firm did and I didn’t have choice and I got the job. Now my client wants to offer me a full time position. I kind of feel like they trust me with the work I’m doing and also considering my past experiences to offer me a full time and moreover it’s only been 3 months.

I know it’s a little unusual but what do you guys think/suggest me to do in this situation?!

Looking for a good recruiter in central to puppet Florida...anyone have any one that they can recommend?

Any creatives want to share what it’s like at Juliet?

Anyone have success with noom...I'm doing the free trial, and it's working but wonder if there is a better (cheaper) app to track my calories?

Good bar spots around 345 park (KPMG) lol

Are you very serious and wish you were less serious or vice versa?

PwC ppl, have you seen the cringey video from Elevate that's making the rounds on internet? Found on Reddit, link in comments

Any helpful advice for FAR. I'm taking it next week

Working with no budgets in any team. Partners indirectly encourage you to eat up hours. End of year it’ll hit my util even tho im 150% utilized. Getting sick of this nonsense.

What's your ideal PTO? Activity and length of time off?

One of my senior managers is a boomerang and told me she was laid off when she was 7 months pregnant about 10 years ago. I think she was a senior or manager. She was in a specific group and everybody was laid off. It wasn’t performance based.

Would you work at your company again if you were laid off?

Which work-paper is "your baby"

I’m convinced internal auditors are hated way more than external auditors... thoughts?

What nuggets of wisdom do you fishes have for someone who is thinking of getting a CPA/CFA or CFP deep into my career (have a different qualification). What is the most straightforward way (self-financed, since I have another qualification)? These would compliment my work as an actuary.

Just heard EY is about to make more layoffs in audit too

Some of these recruiting salary offers are offensive.

TWD episode though!?

Anyone heard of or had experience with Siegfried Group?

Which northern CA (SF or SJ) offices have private client services? What’s it like to work in that practice?

KPMG: where is your strongest group, geographically? One of my clients is using you for internal audit assist, and they managed to majorly fuck up multiple areas in the weeks before we filed.

Anyone from kpmg know if they offer Kaiser medical insurance? From the dc metro area

What is everyone’s thoughts on partners voluntarily leaving the firm?

I’m in real estate tax group and looking for good books about RE fund/investments/accounting during non busy season. Any recommendations? Thanks!