Been on the bench for 10 weeks (longest ever), just got on a traveling gig. Never enjoyed packing my suitcase so delicately!

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I hear u.. i sorta blacked out after week 6

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I much prefer sunday travel, time to prep, work out and be ready to dominate

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Do you have to fly on a Sunday?

Also I’ve been on bench / PTO / working from home for five straight months before. After a while it definitely gets old.

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To each their own, I don’t like losing a day at home and spending the extra night in a hotel.

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Monday chaos is bad in general. Much rather settle in and be ready to put my best forward

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I’m about to hit week 4 on the bench. I’m so exhausted. I need to work 😭😅

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Def dependent on a lot of factors; I’m west coast so hate the monday chaos

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ACN1 that’s gotta be the biggest bullshit

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Don’t get me wrong KPMG, I love the beach but after 2 months I was certain I would be fired (I wasn’t)

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It’s not. What happened was I got hard locked for a role that I was told was 99% sold in October for a year (it was a big project so several of us were waiting). I had 6 weeks of PTO at that point so I used a mixture of PTO, bench time, and training to get through end of year.

Early January I heard we officially lost the project to another firm and I had nothing lined up and little PTO left to burn. This was a few years back when a lot of people were on bench and getting laid off at ACN. Charged almost all of January to bench time.

Then in February I think I was on chopping block so a partner I know gave me a BS role where I worked from home and had very few responsibilities to keep me chargeable so I wouldn’t get laid off.

Finally in mid-March I got a real role and since then have worked like two years without much of a break.

I think I ended the year at 75% chargeable. Would have been worse without PTO and BS role but both of those felt like being on bench as PTO was unplanned and I didn’t get much work in that role.

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Delicately? What are you packing?

5 months?? After 2 months I got intense constant anxiety and started prepping a resume...

Then do it aggressively

LOL constant anxiety, doing the beach so wrong for sure

Ignore the “for a year” part of my last post - unintentional typing.

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