Has anyone ever joined a zoom meeting from an airplane? I won’t need to speak but need to listen and I cannot change my flight. Thanks!

Hello. Traveling to Kathmandu in Nepal for a week towards the end of July . Any recommendations for things to do , place to visit , food to eat & things not to miss 😂. Thank you

Hi fishes, I have got an job offer from natwest. My concern it like travel to office. it's nearly 55 kms from my home. Is cab facilities is free or paid? i can't relocate due to my current situation.
Please pour your comments.

I have an offer and want to negotiate

1. London base salary but I have to absorb all the expenses (train + stay)
I am thinking to negotiate to

2. home base salary and have my expenses paid for

I know that's depends on the amount I have to travel (and potentially stay) but at the moment this is unknown. Past 8 months was just twice a month + 2 nights stay.

The only thing I know is it won't be every week, the return trian ticket is about £80-100, depends I could plan ahead.

Any book recommendations for philosophy, psychology, and business? Or any book you read last year changed your values? Going to fly international, gonna read it on flight. 😍

I recently joined a company after being self employed. I’m on hubs’s health insurance. We have no kids. It’s United healthcare. The company offers United as health insurance. What’s the best way to compare plans? I have not been in this situation before so apologies in advance if this is a dumb question.

Hello travel buddies! I have recently started travel hacking and currently have the Chase Sapphire Preferred, Capital One Venture, Marriott Bonvoy Boundless, and Citi Premier Cards. Please comment if you would like a referral link for any of these!

Hi all! Appreciate all the advice / nerding out about watches in this group! 🙂 Planning to get my first Rolex and also have some upcoming travel to Budapest planned. Has anyone purchased a Rolex there? How was the experience? Trying to take advantage of the high VAT!

My kid is old enough now to consider a Disney trip. I am in Chicago so more inclined to Florida. Any tips or thoughts?

Career Sabbatical?

Can anyone who has taken a career sabbatical to travel/explore other interests share their experience with both leaving their jobs and returning to the legal field?
I really want to live in Asia for a year at least before I have to settle down and start a family. I’m not getting younger but don’t want to be reckless with my career.

Any tips for HireVue interviews/Delta Airlines?

Can someone confirm if Marriott does not give complimentary breakfast with a points booking? Booked with 25k points and was told no complimentary breakfast..

I’m working on casting hosts for a branded content series in the travel and hospitality space. Wondering if anyone has recommendations for where to tap that talent? They don’t need to be SME’s or influencers in the space, but mid level experience hosting.

What does a 30% travel requirement mean in a job description? How often do they expect the candidate to travel ?

Assalamualaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu. Any recommendations for hotels at Makkah and Madina. InshaAllah planning a trip in December for umrah. Also, is it just me or is the living in the zam zam tower overrated? It seems there is always a line for elevators and it seems to be a time consuming affair to get out for prayers. Jazakallahu khair.

What other cards to add to my collection? I have AmEx Platinum and Chase Sapphire Reserve. Fly Delta so AmEx is handy for lounges. Use Sapphire for dining/travel. Should I add Chase Freedom Unlimited?

Please suggest.
I have received my first offer letter, now what all things I should do to get more job calls and better offer?

damn this bowl is dead af

Hi all, need 11 likes to enable DM

Does your firm give you credit for hours that were written off? Sometimes I feel if you don’t lose anything for hours cut from the bill, you have incentives not to be 100% honest w/ your timesheet.

Taking the NY bar for the first time. Is it fine to take it from the work laptop because personal laptop seems to be giving up in life! Please guide any pros or cons. Thanks !

Is there a thread of company discount codes? ISO Hilton code (do not judge me my BIL is getting married at a Hilton and his fiancé is going to go postal if we don’t reserve a room now)

How do I set the formula to calculate “If x falls between 1-10, return 1-10, if it falls between 11-20, return 11-20, and so on”

Is it possible to live in Austin without a car? Moving down for a few months from Dallas but don't plan on bringing a car.

Rising 2L here…Just found out yesterday that one of my top target law firms is not participating in OCIs (they don’t have offices in my state). Any advice on the best way to move forward with them? Still planning to apply, just want to know what I should be doing. Thanks!

Praying no one brings up the election in our team meeting today.

Best / Biggest Happy Hour City in the US?

We're hiring M&A managers and SCs - post a burner if you are interested.

Advice needed:

Strategy Analyst at a corporate -> IT DD/ODD at EYP -> Strategy Consulting at the same firm

Detour or shortcut, my goal is to be in strategy consulting. Is it better to just wait for a couple more years and then go directly into strategy consulting? Are IT DD and ODD experience viewed favourably by strategy consultants?

Bad decision to wear a $7000 Cartier gold bangle in the subways!?! If someone wants to rob me, they’d have to chop my hand off to get the bangle given it can only be unlocked with a screwdriver. 😫

Hii everyone from IBM 👋🏻

Whats the process of initiating and getting the hike/bonus?

I joined IBM on last week of May 2022, was on bench till 20th November 2022 and got allocated to project on 21 November 2022.

Whom should I talk to regarding the hike/bonus? And whats the process like??

Will be grateful if I get any inputs. Thanks all :)

Please refer me in HCL as Service delivery manager. I have job id 1068582BR

Who leads the Data Science/Data Engineering field right now? Cloud transformations, ML implementations, BI reporting? Companies + Practices?

Do we think KC and Jojo still hang out??

Has anybody here started in consulting out of college..then went to industry after a year or two and then came back to consulting? What was your compensation like when you boomeranged to consulting?

How many of you have no plans and cringe whenever someone tells you happy holidays 😞?

My BTA about Kim Kardashian's boyfriends: She upgraded with each release 😊

Mercedes Owners: do you take your car in for Schedule B Service? $500+ for what it includes seems like a bit of a scam and wondering if I'm good just taking it in for an oil change. I assume they'll find anything that needs fixing/changing so they can charge me separately.

Got laid off on Friday. Three days and I'm already bored out of my mind. Besides Jim, what are people doing to pass the time in between job hunting?

How is M&A right now? Is this industry currently short of work or short staffed? Trying to figure out what my chances are to get in

Does anyone struggle to visualize and storyboard their content? I’m good at content delivery and analytics but I have a hard time being creative and visualizing and story boarding. If so, what have you done to improve?

Does anyone else get anxious when they view someone else's deck in a meeting and the formatting sucks? Jumping titles, inconsistent font and size, table of varying sizes, etc.

Any book recommendations for philosophy, psychology, and business? Or any book you read last year changed your values? Going to fly international, gonna read it on flight. 😍

Would anyone at Bain be willing to give a referral?

Going through MBA recruiting right now at an M7 and I'm not positive that I have one. Happy to provide more details in a dm.

How does your firm measure utilization? I work for a small boutique that defines it as utilization = number of billable hours/2,080 and full bonus payout occurs at 80% plus.

Program management vs product management? What’s ur take… seems like program management is a new wave of high demand skill set

Anyone have specific financial goals they're willing to share and how to get there? I'm 30 yo, l10 and $$ gives me anxiety. Currently making ~$95k with $30k in brokerage and $30k 401k. Or, tips for not stressing out that I'll be broke in retirement? Should I make a lateral move out at some point and target a $250k salary by X age?

Owe ~$4,500 in taxes for 2020. Anything I can do to reduce this amount? Going to contribute some extra money to 401k to get me to 19,500 for the year. Anything else?

One of my lead partners is super nice to in front of others but then really mean to me when we meet 1x1. How to deal with this?