How to balance between busy matters? I have a meeting at 6pm and 8pm today for 2 active matters. Client made lots of comments at the 6pm call, so I suddenly had a lot to fix tonight. In the middle of my 8pm call for the other matter, my senior checked on me twice for the progress of my work, the second one having a bit of an aggressive tone. Would there be consequences if I get a bad review and how should I balance these in the future?

Need to create a simple logo for a client project. Can anyone recommend a website or app similar to basic Photoshop for a budget of approximately zero dollars?

Why the most hardworking people in my team are all Asians?! It’s kinda peer pressure to me because it seems that’s what my boss expect me to be... I’m not lazy but I don’t like such double standards?

Cut from a project, covid19 impact. If you need experience, pm, diverse industry, technical and business.

What’s the notice period at TCS? Is it possible to buyout notice period in TCS? I joined only recently and have been allocated a project just now

Did a half alt this weekend. Client paid for flight to alternative city on Thursday. It was cheaper than my regular flight home. Had a personal flight tonight back home.

I keep being staffed on arbitrations, which I hate. Do you think it would be appropriate to tell the assigning partners that I’m not interested in that type of work? And if so, how should I do so? I don’t want the seem like a problematic unreasonable associate.

Any tips on dealing with a boss that may be a tad insecure?

#Genders
Women, do you find it difficult to work with men?
Men, do you find it difficult to work with women?

If there is something you absolutely hate and would like to change when working with the other gender, what would it be?

PS: I'm sorry for focusing on male/female genders in the question, but it's valid for anyone having different experience working with other genders than theirs.

Peer review for a co-worker I despise- should I be brutally honest or will it just make me seem like an ass?

I’ll be asking my last job for a letter of recommendation but I’m not sure who to ask. My boss, who is lovely and would write an amazing LOR. Or my boss's boss who would put minimal effort in but it would have more weight.

Guys

Can we expect 80% hike after 6 months in the current organization. I'm not actually planning to move out because of of hike, but because of the project which I got in which I'm not comfortable with. I'm interested to stay in the organization. But my supervisor said I have to stay in this project for atleast 5 years and HR asked to stay for atleast 2 years which I feel would loose my career.

Kindly provide a solution.

Hello guys,

I recently joined cts its been a month and didn't received any project yet. Can someone help me with the bench policy of the cts.

Hi fellow consultants - I am working on an internal project for my company. I am hoping you can help with 3 easy questions:
1. What company do you work for?
2. From a timesheet/utilization standpoint, what does your company consider as a work week? (e.g, 40 hours, 50 hours)
3. How many hours are you expected to work in a week?

What’s the fashion fishes opinion on the optimal work bag. Brief case feels out of date, backpack too juvenile. What’s the new gold standard?

A partner put me in charge of a specific project that I ran independently. Things were going well. The client began asking me to do more and more, including revamping their system and internal trainings. The client even gave me a litigation matter. Suddenly, the partner became more involved. I was removed from meetings concerning the revamping, my trainings were cancelled, and he started micromanaging. He has now sidelined me from the project and trash talked me to the client. I am very upset.

Anyone in tiger working with pepsiCo client?
Please dm me.

Moving to London from India and have no experience living in cold weathers. What immediate clothing would you suggest for layering and relevant brands plz?

I’m a new CbDer. I don’t come from a technical background and am currently working on a mainframe project as my first project. How do you guys advise me to add value to the project?

When you get a "tx"

Anyone at Microsoft willing to make an internal referral for Corp. Strategy & Development role at the DC or VA office? Currently a Deloitte Manager that meets all the required and preferred qualifications. Thanks in advance for the help!

Any Charlotte folks here? Thinking of moving to the city sometime next year - what are some good neighborhoods for a young family?

And how’s the Indian food scene in Charlotte?

What is your stance on remote work and productivity?

How much are you making as an specialist office manger in Brooklyn or NYC?

Hi Fishes

I am thinking to purchase scooter in banglore so i have couple of doubts.
1. Should I have to purchase electric scooter or normal petrol scooter?
2. In electrical scooter which is good Ola,bounce or Ather also consider budget too😊

Please suggest me your thoughts!!

Any reviews of Chicago Wealth Partners? They are one of the "Select Advisors" for PwC through the Brokerage Simplification Plan (BSP). Thank you!

Hello Everyone. I am desperately looking for a change. I am into infrastructure management. I take care of windows and VM in house servers for my company. So basically I am windows physical/VM server administrator. I have a TOE 12+. Please help out.

Is it possible to still moonlight for 2 WITCH companies. Do they constantly monitor their employees' PF accounts for dual active

Just looking to meet someone here, a little about me, I’m a 27 years old guy , work in finance, love playing tennis and eating Italian food. Also I have aspergers.

How is Majesco ? I have been offered Malaysia location

Hi Fishes, Does anybody know what is the salary for M1 or M2 in Big4 in the UK?

Trying to connect with companies that have remote jobs AND have software compatible with screen reading software (software that auditorily reads the written words on the computer screen to people with visual impairments)

Any splunk developer jobs please comment.

Any expats here face pushback from your family for moving to a different country? They always try to shame me for moving so far away around the holidays...

How is V&E Houston?

Anyone have good therapist recs in DC?

Quinn Emanuel associates, how much are you expected to bill? It looks like 2100 hours for market bonus, but is that considered low or is that considered ok?

What’s the longest you’ve heard of someone being an associate? A recruiter I talked to told me it was a red flag that the firm I interviewed with has associates in their 9th and 10th hear

The feedback I keep getting is that I need to speak up more in meetings (im in a collaborative practice group and it’s awful). But when I do, I usually get shot down and feel like I’ve just shown everyone how dumb I am. How do you speak up when you have nothing to contribute?

To all the star junior and mid-level associates,
How did you become a go-to associate?

Any recommendations for podcasts related to funds/securities law/M&A or similar topics? I’m a first year (funds/funds reg) and was more interested in other areas in law school, so just trying to learn something and stay in the know. I already know about The Deal podcast.

Those in Tech M&A, what’s different about it? What keeps you interested?

Any labor and employment practice groups hiring in Chicago that would be open to hiring a rising second year who is trying to switch into LE from another transactional group?

What do you wish you knew about the lateral process before you did it? Any other tips that would be helpful to navigate it? Thanks!

What are your thoughts on Gunderson and Latham fund formation groups (especially VC vs PE work, including WLB and exit opportunities)?

People joke about billing for thinking about a matter, but I actually puzzle together a lot of stuff while I’m doing something like taking a shower. That’s a 0.2, no?

Hey all - first year associate here… I’ve met my hours requirement for this year (requirement is 1900 and am currently at around 2050 with billable hours - approx. 2160 with non billable admin hours) and I am just tired. Is it okay to just “disappear” during the holidays (thanksgiving week, week of Christmas) and let partners and senior associates know I am not available? At this point I don’t care about making more money - I just want to sleep, read a good trashy book, and cuddle with my dog.

I’m a homegrown 4th year in a transactional group and I realized I only have a couple partners who give me all my work (out of about 10 in my group firmwide). I don’t have the bandwidth to seek work from the other partners. Am I dead ended here?

Billed 190 hours in December and felt good about that until I heard people in my group say I "slacked off" during the holidays. I hate this industry.

To those who has been in big law >3 years, what ways have you taken advantage of your accredited investor status? Any recommendations on good ways to use it?
(Will be accredited soon hopefully and interested in learning if there are opportunities).

Fresh Junior lateral and a colleague from past firm (different practice area) asked if I could take a pro Bono case because he trusts me with it. It would be completely creditable under my firm’s policy, but would it look weird to ask for pro Bono credit in my first few weeks post lateral?

Just worried it would look like I’m not prioritizing work that actually earns the firm money. Idk maybe I’m overthinking it. Thoughts? TIA!

Took the afternoon off. Totally have stuff I could be working on but I’m too burnt out to care. Cooked a nice dinner for my husband and me (cooking is relaxing for me),and enjoyed a bottle of wine together… and just… talked. Hope you all can find moments like this too while doing this job.

How crazy would it be for me to hire a personal assistant to help me with non-work tasks? I feel like I am constantly behind on my life to do list (e.g., making doctors appointments, grocery shopping, returning xmas gifts, etc.)