Fishbowl is DYING! Yay or Nay??
Feels a lot less active and engaging than before!

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Confessions bowl is too tame. Consulting bowl has less travel, fewer juniors asking dumb questions, fewer ridiculous 'is 500K too much to spend on a car' questions, and fewer Friday relaxation threads. The big sign though, is nobody is even shouting, "Show us your pets!" anymore.

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It’s been a pretty steep decline since Glassdoor bought it. Moderation is a joke, and it doesn’t help that consulting as a profession has changed pretty dramatically since the plague.

I kinda miss the 2021 days when people were talking about 300K TC offers with 5YOE and asking whether they were being lowballed.

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Now that I have kids I am grateful for the hybrid approach. I am usually away one night a week (with some early start day trips if going into local office) but more time at home is great. But also the flexibility. We all had Skype for business in 2017 but if you couldn’t make it to client site you just missed the meeting. We only ever seemed to do conference calls if the client or colleague was across the Atlantic or something😂. Now you can (as long as it does not become a pattern) say ‘sorry guys, nightmare with the kids this morning so I’m dialling in’. That small amount of flexibility every now and then is so good.

However, there are big downsides in terms of client delivery and team bonding which should not be over looked.

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There was an issue recently where they just suspended a bunch of accounts accidentally. So that can’t have helped activity

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too many lay offs not enough people to respond

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You’d think they’d have more time then.

It's dead, the new generation don't even know about it

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No one has the time :(

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What are they using instead of FB?

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Glassdoor acquired it and seems like they haven’t touched it since, except to integrate it with the Glassdoor app which has only made that app even more confusing than it already is.

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