From the Moderator:

Week 3: August 2 to August 9

Question of the week

Pretend You’re an NBA player...

(A) Would you stand for the national anthem or kneel?
(B) How would you feel about your other players standing or kneeling?

As a reminder our goal on this bowl is to fully understand other people’s POV and to share your POV effectively so it’s fully understood. So that empathy can happen...not necessarily to change someone else’s mind. This may or may not happen.

ITS or Transfer pricing comps?

How much have you invested into crypto and in which coins?

If you sponsored but don’t like your current firm, is it crazy to re-recruit? Or is the time better spent in other industries? Tech/Finance

Anyone have morning sickness in first pregnancy and not in their second? I’m ~5 weeks now and so anxious waiting for it to happen! I had pretty debilitating sickness weeks 6-17 last time.

I finally started enjoying to workout again and love OTF but the workouts are really intense and my cycles has started getting longer (from 34 days to 39 days). Has anyone experienced working out more/with more intensity impacting their fertility either positively or negatively? Been several months trying to conceive and I’m worried I should make a solid attempt to lessen the intensity perhaps?

Recently took a new job doing marketing for an ingredient brand (protective gear technology in helmets and other applications) and new to product marketing. Coming from primarily digital marketing. Any tips for me to learn product marketing? Any courses or ideas to get me up to speed? Has anyone else made that jump?

Currently looking for Tech consulting/ Implementation consultant/ privacy roles in London. I have both CIPP/E and CIPM.
Please let me know if you know any roles that are available? Or any recruitment agencies you can refer me to

Thank you!

I am transferring from Deloitte internal to the S&A practice. I am wondering what a reasonable % increase to ask for. Currently a 2nd year C making 70k in services, and will be a first year C in S&A

Is Juice still afloat? Some say no, and others say Hell no. What say you?

Anyone know the compensation for HR generalist making 60k and also having additional recruiting responsibilities?

Tonight my wife threw water at me, called me a loser (second time this week but who’s counting) and told me she didn’t wanna be with me. All because while she was out I walked on the treadmill and “omitted” telling her that when she came home. Wasn’t trying to hide it, just didn’t think being on a treadmill for 5 min was worthy of being brought up in convo.

Am I the asshole here? I don’t think I did anything wrong and refuse to start giving my wife status updates while she’s out.

Ladies: Where are you buying your MBA interview suits?👩‍💼🕴

Why can't people appreciate a good going conversation?
Is it really necessary to leave it in between?

I live in a studio apartment and telework full time. My desk is small and my chair is a dining chair which makes me never want to work there. End up laying in bed and unproductive. Should I upgrade?

Anyone have the Goyard belvedere PM? How do you like it?

Qualys is very bad company, nothing positive, only good thing medical insurance and 1 month np

I’m convinced that the reason some of these firms are so prestigious is because they have intentionally exclusionary recruitment practices. I used to believe that you had to already be rich to get hired at MBB. Now being on the other side of the recruitment process , I really do feel that it rings true. I hate the way we evaluate candidates and decide on who is “high priority” during coffee chats.

From the Moderator....

Week 1: July 19 to July 25
Discussion of the Week:
1. What is your understanding of affirmative action?
2. Should your company/firm/govt do it?
3. If yes to q2 have they done enough of it?

Remember to be respectful.

From the Moderator: I would like to compile a list of questions/issues for this group to discuss... please suggest questions. I will hold them in a list and release them one per week. So The first question for the group is... what questions do you suggest this “safe zone” for all people deal with? GO!

Purpose of this group:

- A Place for everyone (black,white,other POC) to share agreeing AND disagreeing views on racial topics

- Format will be one topic each week. Please reply to this pinned post with topic suggestions.

- Moderator will put up topic weekly and be watching to promote respectful and engaging conversations including ensuring popular and unpopular opinions are welcomed.

JOIN US! converse with us, agree and disagree with us, learn with us... your voice is needed.

From the Moderator:

How do we feel about Joe Biden:

(A) Declaring before hand that his VP would be a woman
(B) Selecting a black woman

Should organizations take similar action? For example declaring that their next CEO will be a woman.


All views welcome

From the Moderator

Week 2: Jul 26 to Aug 2

1. Do you personally believe there is a systemic racism problem?

2a. If yes, share with others why you believe so

2b. If no, share why you believe so.

Question was posed by a member of the group.

All remember that the goal of this group:
- is to help others understand YOU
- to help YOU understand OTHERS.
- our highest goal is full understanding of the each other leading to empathy

It’s unlikely that you would change another’s mind via this forum

I created this group because: there are both black and white people afraid to say what they really think. I see this as a problem because unless we can say what we truly feel we can’t identify differences and come to genuine solutions.

Suggested Format is we will deal with 1 question or topic per week. The question will be from participants. I will try to simply be a host, moderator and translator. We will lay out some ground rules to make it safe for all. I will enforce these.

From the moderator, for discussion.

Should white males be concerned that current focus on diversity will lead to negative results

If Yes, why and under what conditions
If No, why not?