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I once had an Uber driver who wouldn’t stop talking. I had to choke him. Dealing w the cops after that was a little stressful
I’ll take 5000 for things that did not happen
Newark to SFO every week for nearly six years. It was brutal.
KPMG4 is probably:
A. a know-nothing twenty-something
B. single
C. childless
D. a drug addict
E. Any or All of the Above
Not for work, but New Year’s Day 2016. My girlfriend was studying abroad in Amsterdam for the fall semester and I went to go meet her for the holidays and New Years. We end up planning to go skiing in the Swiss alps for a few days from January 1-5.
Since we’re young, we decide it’s a good idea to go to a club/EDM concert on New Year’s Eve with all her friends and we’ll go back to her apartment, shower, grab our stuff and go make our 8 am flight.
Fast forward a few hours and we’re at the airport terminal tired as shit waiting for the flight to board. The airplane finally decides to let us on and we have different seats. No biggie. For some reason I’m about 10 rows ahead of her. I plop myself down next to a woman who eventually realizes she’s in the wrong seat. I’m so tired I start falling asleep and am in and out of hypnotic jerks until the plane takes off. While fighting the urge to sleep, I hear a clearly drunken black woman scream about how the whole plane is racist since everyone on the plane is white. This is happening a few rows behind me and I think to myself, ‘whatever’ and fall back asleep. Turns out, there was no one in my row and I decide to sprawl out like a kid at nap time. Unbeknownst to me, my girlfriend is stuck in the middle of the drunken woman and another larger man. Whoops.
We arrive in Zurich still tired as shit and my GF is super pissed. I have the unmitigated gal to ask her how she slept and what’s next. We have to go to interlaken the day after via train. No biggie. Since it’s New Year’s Day, there aren’t any taxis and it’s before the time of uber. So we walk 2 miles to the hotel. We knock on the door but no answer. We knock on a neighbors door and they say the place next door isn’t an AirBnB and we got scammed. Great. Girlfriends pissed because I booked that accommodation. Turns out the only place that’s open on New Year’s Day is hooters. Probably the most depressing place weve ever been. We end up sitting in the hooters for 4 hours while we try to get a new train ticket to interlaken.
All worked out in the end but it was a whirlwind of disaster.
Stop with the go.
Few weeks before Christmas and there was a jumper on the bridge going to Alexandria ok the beltway. I hated that commute anyhow but that day sucked.
Also the metro ride to Pentagon - took Branch Ave and crossed fingers I didn’t work late.
Had a manager fly in and forget their laptop at home.
I used to work with someone who commuted from Martinsburg WV to downtown DC everyday
Holy shit
Flying Atlanta to small tiny Indiana town, plane got diverted to other tiny town due to fog, we finally take off and land at correct airport, turns out luggage was taken off at my connection in ATL, and no rental cars left because it’s 2am.
November 2018, freak snowstorm blew into north jersey in the evening. Was expecting an inch or two, wound up being 6-8 right at rush hour. Because of the forecast, no one worked from home, barely anyone left early, and towns weren’t prepared to salt.
End result was gridlock on every road and highway, and due to the gridlock public works couldn’t get through. So as traffic got heavier there was 6 inches of unplowed snow on every road.
Took me 5 hours to drive 20 miles in a front wheel drive civic. So on top of the drive there was constant worry of getting stuck/ skidding out and losing control
I used to commute between Chino Hills, CA and Burbank, CA (2.5 hours each way). It was fucking brutal but that’s what you do when you want to raise your little ones on $80k/year in a safe area of SoCal with good schools.
Halfway to the airport, I remember I left some vital medication. I managed to make it back home, pack the meds, and get to my gate right before doors closed 😱
Last week-- crazy guy yelling at woman on subway, 1/2 train gets off, I approach woman and asks if she needs help (says no). Crazy guy follows me off train, shouting at me for a block, then sucker punches me when I dial 911 to tell the emergency responder what the crossroads were.
8mim by bike, 7 min park, 1min street - horrible! Where is my FTL
First day on the job. Train is very crowded (NYC), people are pushing/shoving. I try to remain calm. Now it’s my stop....I attempt to get off and typically NY fashion people don’t move or don’t “hear” you. I had to get nasty and yell “Yo can y’all fucking move. I need to get tf off-MOVE!” I get to my desk to switch into my heels (because I had sneakers on) and to my demise, one of my heels fell out of my bag. 😑🙃
Last night I thought I had the row all to myself... then I saw him board late. “Please god.... not me,” I said to myself. Prayers not answered. Fat spilling over arm rest... flattening myself against the window. Tweaked my neck. Then seat in front of me reclines...
Code red bathroom emergency @ 3am on the way to Penn Station on the C train in Manhattan. I’ll never look at that end of the platform the same again.
Dad commuted from NJ to Connecticut for 6 months every week day..
In air on a flight from NYC to Chicago, the guy one seat away from me was twitching in his seat and stared at the blank screen in front of him. He then started screaming “WHAT A DAY” repeatedly at the top of his lungs and the FAs took him to the back of the plane. When we were deplaning he tried to leave his suitcase behind (people pointed it out and he actively ignored them). I believe the police was called and waiting for him when we landed.
Prolly the day before a steerco
DC Earthquake. I win.
I was but I was also in the 8th grade. Missed the commute part of that.
Chicago to LAX for 1 year weekly travel
That sounds terrible.
Got to the Bedford L station one dah last week and they straight up suspended all train service and stranded me in Brooklyn
Almost got kidnapped once in a taxi.