How different do your two professional recommendations need to be? I’ve worked for two years under the same management because of mutual trust. Any other recommendations would be dated or worse.

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It was recommended to me that I get my second recommender outside consulting, but that fits my pitch better (military recommender). I would posit that, absent a similar situation to me, if those two people will give you the best recommendation then go for it.

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Is it bad for me to choose my project manager and Principal even if their purview might be similar?

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You get associate-level respect. Associate matlab intern samajh rakha hai...

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Has anyone else ever dated a coworker?

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I have a crush on a girl in our office...
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We follow each other on yammer but not sure if she still recognise me.

How to initiate conversation virtually with her?

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I have a partner who routinely ignores emails or responds to them several weeks later. He has to approve every single document sent to the client or the court, which means you have a physically go to his office to ask him to review something. Half of the time you go to meet with him in person, he’s either on a call or otherwise busy. I find that this basically creates more work and makes meeting deadlines extremely difficult. Is this normal?

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I teach freshmen who haven't met the only other single teacher in my department. Today, I asked one of them to take something to him and immediately kids started talking about how we were dating. Ugh.

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What does everyone wear for client meetings in a WFH setting

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How often do you interact with your A clients? I feel disconnected them and probably should follow up with them more frequently

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Practising Catholic here - I don’t understand what specific catholic challenges I have at work? The biggest issue for me is the annoying Cardinal Pell and other rape jokes.

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- The produced output file must be local and easily exportable and readable
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- free

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After you are stealth laid off, other than job search, what do you do? I assume they won’t give you work and even if they do, you can politely decline? How do you feel about you are not progressing anymore and seeing other people progressing in their career? I have no intention to make partner, but still feel a bit stuck not doing that much.

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Who’s working on the twitter acquisition? The dataroom has to be nuts.

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I have not been brought up religious but I am beginning to think, I’d like to have faith in something. Doesn’t need to be dogmatic, but having a foundational belief in good things to come is probably essential and for someone like me who needs to work so hard to be happy, I wonder if being a part of a spiritual group can help. Does anyone have recommendations for what I can look into? I get there are many churches but has something helped you guys?

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Just got a rousing pep talk from my partner about how being a partner in public accounting is the “greatest career anyone could ever dream of”. Feel like he’s still trying to talk himself into it, too.

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Is SAP labs going to extend wfh post June? Or in hybrid model can we choose to work 1 week in a month in office and rest wfh. Basically I live in a different city(chennai - in laws home) and got an offer from SAP Bangalore(parents home) . I can travel once a month to work in office and stay rest of the month in chennai. Is it feasible to do this?SAP

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Is there any difference in prestige of a 1 year MBA vs 2 year?

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Had a 3.2 in undergrad at UC Berkeley. Struggled with mental health 2 of my semesters, which reflects in my transcript pretty evidently. Is it worth writing an optional essay about? Just don’t want to be dinged and not seen as capable for grad level courses bc of that

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Any thoughts on Warwick Business School MBA?

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I already sent my scores to Sloan through ETS but decided to not submit scores. I see a “delete” option in the app- will that ensure adcoms doesn’t know that I ever sent in a score?

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Are MBA interviews going to be virtual or in person this year?

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