Corporate associates: I’m a specialist associate and the partner I work with is super inefficient and makes us late to get everything back to the corporate team no matter how early I try to get us on track. And of course I’m the one having to send our comments and apologize for being late. How much do you hold that against the specialist associate / do you recognize that it’s usually the partner’s fault (and you should avoid them on future deals, not us)?

What is the most “do as I say, not as I do” thing you’ve been told or punished/reprimaded for as an associate?

As a junior, how do you deal with the anxiety that the advice you provide to a partner based on your research (that is being sent to client without much supervision) could be wrong or incomplete?

My manager (unknowingly) messaged me on Grindr. What should I do now?

Used to be in a quant group. We had an underperforming staff who we let go. He claimed to HR he was discriminated against bc he was an MBA. To which they responded: that's not a protected class.

How to switch practice areas? I’ve been in immigration for 3 years now and need a change. How do you convince employers you’re a good fit for a role you don’t have any experience with?

I posted this somewhere else before I remembered that I am in this bowl :) so, I changed jobs 6-7 months ago and I am realizing it is not a good fit. Leadership seem to not want to hear the truth so people tell them what they want to hear and if you don’t middle management gets pissed at you. I am seriously thinking about looking somewhere else. My question is how do you answer the “why are you looking to leave” question without bad mouthing your current company?

Joined ZS 7 months ago but never interacted with PD coach yet. Is it important?

Is long hair a bad thing in corporate?

Do partners sometimes say nice things about your work just to encourage you and less so because the work merits the compliment? Or is my impostor syndrome really messing with my head?

I just asked the partner if he got a haircut because his hair looks nice 🥴 why am i so cringe?? I swear I don’t know how to act around the partners lmao. Does this happen to anyone else or just me?

Has anyone had a manager they just don’t vibe with/relate to? I’ve been trying to connect but I haven’t gotten them on my side yet. How did you manage to crack the ice?

Dear Nappily Ever After,
No one has an office, much less an assistant. Creative and account are different jobs with their own dress codes. But dumb, off brief ideas by white creatives do win.

I just moved teams within my agency, and had the jarring realization that every single person on the day-to-day business (across account, strategy, and creative, 12+ ppl) is white. I am also white.

I’m getting the chance to hire somebody new for the team. Hopefully you can see where I’m going with this: how do I talk to HR - who clearly does not recognize this is a thing, or doesn’t consider it a problem - about the need to find some POC candidates for this role and in general?

How do you say no to your manager if you have been asked to work in a shift and the work that you have to do has no relevance to your actual job.

Am an executive assistant and There is one executive I support who is very annoying. He doesn't behave this way with backup admin assistants when am out of the office

How do you deal or work with such people?

What quirks of your team members drive you crazy? I have a teammate who never silences his phone. He also happens to chew loudly, with his mouth open.

What do I do if I’ve only worked one job (the one I’m currently at) and another company is asking for references? I could do professors from college but not sure if that’s a good idea. I wish I could give my current manager’s contact but I don’t want her knowing :/

I have a client who just can’t get over the fact that I don’t drink. We were recently out to dinner so I sneaked and got a mock tail just so he’d leave me alone. That was annoying

Is it standard to display your gender pronouns on zoom/slack etc in business school? I’ve noticed this is ubiquitous at Haas, but wondering if that’s specific to them

I get it, women in engineering are a bit of a rarity. But it feels like my coworkers don't talk around me and it's really awkward. Sometimes I wish I could just blend in

how many years does it normally take before being promoted? I've worked as a digital editor for about 3 years now, but nothing yet

Has anyone seen the movie Spotlight? It made me think again about the passion to find the perfect news, the one that would be really helpful and necessary to society.

Any consulting moms in the area? Desperately in need of in town friends.

Best broker and underwriter to work for?

Can I use the floating holiday after 9/30 or is it gone?

I have 2.5 years experience in sap basis but I want to switch my career in other company along with sap hana or sap abap technologies.
Can anyone suggest me how can I switch my career in those technology?

I’ve seen some M&A partners move to investment banks as managing directors, etc. How do they gain the sales skills needed for banking by drafting and reviewing SPAs?

Looking to move back to La in the Marina Del Ret area, any good apartment recommendations?

Is it a bad idea to leave tech and try something else if I want to go back to tech eventually? For context I have the opportunity to move to London and pivot into a new field for me but the job is at an agency. I know I’d want to eventually go back to tech but paranoid it’ll be more difficult - thoughts?

Which engineering is the best and why? I am an electrical engineer and I am sure that my engineering is the best career because it is the most difficult to study and at the same time we are the ones in charge of moving the world.

How do you say no to your manager if you have been asked to work in a shift and the work that you have to do has no relevance to your actual job.

How's technical work in cws engineering team in Goldman Sachs for java developer? And how's work life balance in that team?

What is the usual procedure companies do follow while giving offer letter to a potential employee with a notice period? How the date of joining and all will be decided ?

What technologies and tools should I learn if I want to pursue career as a data engineer.

Hi Sharks,

Is a bond for 2 years valid if the company has not provided any training or has spent money on training?

Any help regarding this topic will be appreciated.

Just started progesterone suppositories. Anyone else worried that you are starting them either too early or too late in your cycle? I read that too early can increase risk of tubal pregnancy…

Hello Fishes,
PLEASE LOOK AT IT AND ADVICE!!
I’m 4 yoe…looking for a change probably till November end I need offer letter in hand so that I can resign. Notice period is of 1 month.

From when should I start applying

Techstack:
DevOps(Terraform-Certified, Ansible, GitLab,Docker and Kubernetes-Certified CKA)
Golang(Theory and some projects)
Cloud : GCP (Certified) and Azure

Dear CDs and ecds who give all the good projects to your favs, know that we all see you and your favs will be the first to leave because you stacked their books too fast. Love, everyone else.

Has anybody on the more junior side asked a new firm to move out of state (where the firm has another office with the same comp) for tax purposes? Still working with the same team in the same office in state one, and okay to fly back once a week even if the “two days in office” become a thing…

How long and how “much” can a stub year coast through Big Law? What billables are considered “coasting”? 1 year? 2 years? 3 years? For perspective - at Vault 10 firm in NYC with no billable abs unassigned system.

Which is more painful: watching litigators draft contracts or transactional attorneys litigate?

Wait. Do attorneys negotiate salary? 3rd year associate in big law. I’m not referring to lateraling.

With every day that passes by, I become ever more certain that a more fitting name for an attorney is "psychopath for hire"

(I’m not really sure since I’m a first generation lawyer) I know clerking is generally considered a great opportunity and learning experience and prestigious (?) Is it also the case working for a Senator?

Thoughts on Quinn Emmanuel? How grade conscious are they?

Thoughts on getting fed government jobs? I'm a first year associate in a specialized transaction group in DC and I fucking hate it. I had an internship at a federal department in school but after that went 2L SA/firm. Any hope of finding something? Right now my plan is to just start spamming USAjobs and hope something eventually sticks.

A friend was told their firm will cut ties EOY if certain things don’t improve. Friend had planned to quit in the next year anyway (to start their own business), so there is no real incentive to bend over backwards. Friend’s goal is to keep the income for a little longer, but to minimize conflict / headaches. What’s the best move here? Wait until EOY and take the severance? Give 6 / 9 / 12 months’ notice now? Is there such a thing as too much notice? Could too much notice backfire?

How far off market is Greenberg? 5th year litigation in Texas.

Does anyone know when QE (or other firms ending their fiscal year in October) pay out bonuses? Need to know how long I have to do this until I can quit.

Serious billing question - if during the course of the day, you first receive an email from Client A at say 11:10am and you read it, you then respond to it at 12:20pm. You get another email at 2pm from Client A and respond immediately. The next email comes in at 4pm, you read it and respond only at 4:30pm. None of the email responses take more than 3-5mins. You are working on matters for other clients at all other times during the day. How much are you billing for Client A?

When you're slow and filling hours with CLEs, how many hours do you do this for? Is three/four hours good enough?

Pretty sure I’m about to be fired. I have an offer in hand anyway and have been on a few interviews that have gone well, and a few more lined up. Am I gonna be ok?

Saw an article about the chilling effect that the Big Law salary raises are having on in house hiring since associates cannot bear to take the pay cut. Do we believe this? Of course if an in house role offers less than a first year salary it’s a tough pill to swallow, but what if the role offers in the mid-200s for a substantially better WLB? Thoughts??

Anyone have any favorite office decor or personal items? Trying to think of things to make my office less boring now that I'm going back in.

Feel free to share anything interesting that you've seen as well.

Currently thinking plants and potentially wall art.

Looking to help a first year attorney lateral to a firm in LA that specializes in L&E defense, or has a good practice team. Any recommendations on teams that have a hiring need?

To all those in management, how do firms that haven’t instituted pay cuts/furloughs manage to do that? Is it because their clients are still paying the bills, because they are borrowing money, because partners just won’t see profit this coming year? Some combo?

What is the average adoption assistance benefit at big law firms?

Can I use my former firm’s coffee mug at my new firm? I just really like the mug.