If anyone’s flying delta before the end of the month

Will end up at 65 Marriott nights for 2018. What would you select for your annual choice benefit? 5 elite night credits or is that pointless?

I hate the cultural norm that makes drinking and eating rich food almost mandatory for client entertainment and/or team bonding on travel jobs. Any tips on how to stay fit and stick to a healthy diet?

Looking for candidates for a Tableau Analytics Solution Engineer role at Salesforce. Home-based role with some travel. Ideal background: experience working with analytics technology (ie Tableau, Salesforce CRMA (Einstein), Qlik, Power BI), working with or in the government/military, and working in a customer facing role. Please reach out if you have interest or know someone who may be a good fit. Resumes welcome!

Has anyone ever Upgrades to premium class on a flight (on Alaska in this case) only to cancel for a flight credit? Basically I booked saver fare, need to cancel it but don’t want to eat the cost. It’s $100 to upgrade round trip and premium class can get a flight credit. Is this possible? Or will Alaska not let that happen?

Any Florida hotels (Hyatt/Marriott) near the beach that people recommend? Looking to avoid Miami.

Any recommendations on St Regis vs Ritz Carlton Istanbul?

Any folks at MMB/T2 in St. Louis open to connect? Are there many local projects or do you travel most of the time?

How much would you pay for a business class ticket to Asia? This is for personal travel and I am not considering buying upgrades with miles

What's your favorite ski resort and why? Any tips and recommendations for saving money, sharing transpo, best time to avoid crowds?

Anyone travelling from pune to mumbai today?

Want to take a 1 week vacation solo between jobs in 2 weeks. Any recommendations? Budget of about 1.5K for flight + hotel / stay accommodation. Based in Chicago.

Need 6 Marriott nights to titanium (spend doesn’t matter). 1 - would any hotel manager cut you a deal? (Ie if 6 nights is 60k; let me pay 30k and get the nights and I won’t use the room?); 2 - where are cheapest Marriott hotels? I found 10k per night in burbs of Chicago? 3 - would any cheap Marriott let me run this scam remotely? (Ie call Abilene Texas, check me in without my showing up)

For expert witnesses/lawyers

I’m a former forensic scientist that left the field several years ago. I recently received a subpoena from a case I worked and suggested to DA to have evidence re-worked by the lab or stipulation. If I am required to testify (as an expert witness), I would need to book a flight, hotel, etc. My question is this: can I ask for my requested hourly rate, travel, and hotel to be covered when speaking with DA or is that “not how this works” as the investigator put it?

With the latest Southwest Visa cc, you get 4 upgraded boardings a year. I’ve used 1. My question is this. What is a “year”? Is it calendar year or your anniversary date of when card was issued?

Planning a last minute leaf peeping trip in early October through New England. Planning to go through MA to VT but flexible on itinerary. Wondering if anyone has recommendation on good places to stay?

Can I buy a privacy screen filter at jfk airport?

Anyone have a special platinum Marriott support number or contact person to resolve a lingering issue?

Hey everyone,
I have a BSc degree from a semi-target university in the United Kingdom, and I currently have around 2 years of strategy consultancy experience at a Big 4 in one of Africa's most competitive economies. I'm looking to step into consulting in Dubai/ Abu Dhabi (MBB, Tier 2, boutiques, etc.).
Any referrals?
Thanks

Thinking about getting the AWS Cloud Practitioner certification. Does EY have any amazon resources or training materials that they provide? Any advise from people who have taken it before? Thanks!

Hi folks, any idea about the current hiring process for an experienced hire at big4? I meant in terms of total duration.

I am thinking to switch my career from being an auditor to software. How hard it is to switch? Has anyone done this? What are your experiences? Thank you.

Completely and totally miserable at my firm and just need a space to vent because my friends are tired of hearing about it. I wish the worst part about it was the amount of work, rather than the completely toxic culture, lack of appreciation, arbitrary and back/breaking deadlines, lack of mentorship/feedback/training, and the fact that the associates act like they don’t even know each other. I cry every day and constantly am made to feel stupid for not understanding the highly technical (cont.)

Got another global travel advisory re: covid 19 screenings. Anyone actually seeing changes at airports (for Schengen flights) lately? I haven’t.

Can anyone explain how it works getting paid at a post production facility with editors on roster ? (trim / final cut / Whitehouse post) what's the range of salary typically ?

I hate going to the Apple Store nowadays.

Anyone got a six figure base as an AE? Hunting around for companies with 6-fig base and similar commission. Seems to be mostly field / enterprise pay.

Are private equity operating roles considered respectable and prestigious in the buy-side space? What does the compensation look like for an associate at a LMM firm?

Hi does anyone work at EY in BC? Willing to chat about what it’s like if I applied from the US?

Which company is better in terms of technology, growth and work life balance?
Boeing or BNY Mellon | Pershing

Recruiting for IQVIA consulting currently, any comments on the company?

Looking for some boutique firms (healthcare/public health sector) that do work relating to social determinants of health, community health centers, population health, community hospitals. Any suggestions?

Can anyone please tell me what is sapience buddy app? I observed it got installed automatically on my machine.

I’m considering a move to Chicago from Minneapolis. So what are peoples thoughts about Chicago? A friend suggested I rethink it because of ridiculous traffic and gang crime starting to infiltrate the north.

Day 1 here.. What topics are off limits? Client lists, billing rates... What else?

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.

What does your spouse think of your job? Do they understand what you do?

Anyone here taken a career break (6 months or more? How hard was it to get a job again? Did you have to explain why you took a break? Any other cons I should be aware of?

Are we able to mirror our motions/voices/moves to a different location? Who wants to work on this initiative? Would be a perfect tool for WFH situation.

STARTUP FOUNDERS and FAANG: would you rather hire MBB with 3-4 years of exp or Tier 2 with 5-6 years? If you could isolate those variables and everything else held constant.

Crowd sourcing my dilemma: joining a very successful 4 yrs old start-up for an executive level role (short term increase in comp is 200%) vs staying 2 more years at B4 with very high possibility of partner promotion?

Have you found using a standing desk increase your productivity? How else do you increase your productivity? I am so distracted all the time

How long does it usually take for Deloitte to get back to you after the first round for consultant position?

Ratings on three projects - 3,2,2. Utilization - 90%... Proposal hours - 15... Firm activities - 43 hrs... I then get a YE rating of 4 😕 ... How worried I should be regarding the layoffs???

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.

That tesla model 3 tho!. Cot Damn.😍

Deloitte S&O vs Monitor ?

I know I'm a seasoned consultant because I know the locations of the best plugs in airports across the country. I can't decided if I'm proud or sad to possess such knowledge.

Want to warn stakeholders that their hostile, posturing emails with our main client CC'd is only going to backfire (main client ❤️ us). emails will no joke prob get some of them fired. #restructuring

Has anyone moved states and changed their home office / region? (Personal choice not project driven)....If so, what's the process? What approvals are needed?

What time frame throughout the year do companies recruit and hire the most? Feel like since October hit I’ve seen a downward trend in recruiters reaching out to me.

I'm sort of over Pokemon Go, novelty has worn off. What am I missing that has everyone else hooked?

Has anyone used any softwares that make it easier to walkthrough a Google slides template or PowerPoint in away that makes it easy to hit the commonly changed items? I have customers monthly that need the same intro presentation and have a templates deck but it’s annoyingly time consuming to go through every section each time to make sure I don’t miss anything

For those of you who got into the big 3 (Bain, BCG, Mk) how many months did you practice casing for? How many hours a week?

"You can't get rich working for someone else" the truth of this statement has started to sink in over my first two years on the job (and out of school). What's stopping many of you young folks without