My fifth sober Fourth of July in the books. Hope you all had a safe and sober holiday

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Someone correct me if I’m wrong… for PDM Analysts/Senior Analysts with 93% utilization target, working 40 hours a week, factoring in holidays/collective disconnect days… there’s 1 day of PTO available across the entire performance year in order to meet utilization by Jan 8? Is that even legal? Lol

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How do you deal with burnout? I’m just not feeling it anymore. I keep thinking time off will help but I’m not so sure because it’s winter and not as nice outside up north. I’ve been working for 16+ years with the longest break between jobs at 7 weeks. Never take more than a week off at a time. Any tips? Should I say anything to the partners I assist? Should I say anything to my supervisor?

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Since we returned to office in October, is it appropriate to give holiday gifts to team members?

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🌟What's happening Wednesday🌟
What's going on in Charlotte? Let's use this thread to share events, concerts, holiday festivities, and other fun things happening in the city this weekend!

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Had a incident when my manager accidentally sent a message to me, talking crap about me for taking time off around the holidays, during a busy time (I’m a remote worker with 2 kids under 2). This message was intended for her boss. What should i even do about this? The culture is very unprofessional and I’m thinking about sending my laptop/equipment to the lobby first thing come Monday. Any advice would be great!

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Hi 🐟
Salary credited for August??
EY GDS
As tomorrow is a holiday.
Hdfc bank account
EY

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I am new associate at firm and I am noticing the other associates haven’t taken much vacation days. I have 20. I’ve only used 2. I have to use them or I loose them. Any thoughts — I worry what partners would think if I do take vacation within first year. Obviously I would take the whole time. Just 5-6 days. Thoughts????

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@Tanium what's your PTO policy and other benefits like

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A parent of one of my students told admin she thinks it's irresponsible that I won't be grading over Christmas break. I let the students know to get any work they need graded in before the break and I'll get it to it during our workdays in January. Apparently that's not fast enough for her 🙄. Is it wrong that I'm sort of pissed off by this? Should I say something?

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Wayfair Wants us to work Black Friday week but says we have to make up our free thanksgiving holiday they gave us for regular pay first before we can get double pay, is it just me or that sneaky? I’d rather get double to work the holiday! 😡 thoughts? Wayfair

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Is it reasonable to ask for three weeks before joining a new company? I was thinking a two week notice and a week vacation to take a breath. What do you think ?

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How would you feel going on vacation with friends who want to bring their kid along too?

Is 31st Aug holiday in Optum Hyderabad on account of Ganesh Chaturthi? Optum

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How long is the process usually between application and offer? I know it varies, but interested in all experiences. Do in-house jobs often let you take time off (like a month or so, plus the 2 weeks notice at your firm) before starting like biglaw does?

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Do you fly out to family for the holidays or do they come to you? We're hosting Christmas for the first time and having the entire family come to town for it. What are some can't miss holiday events in the city? Ideally accessible because my father is in a wheelchair.

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For all you retail people...are you experiencing a very slow holiday season? I am a retail manager and I feel like this season has been freakishly slow. I thought we would at least match last year's number or be up a little bit but we are trending down. I talked to employees of other stores in the mall and they are saying the same thing. Is anyone else experiencing this in their market?

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EY is hiring remote executive assistants. You will work from home 90% of the time. Hiring for the following cities: Dallas, Cleveland, Louisville, New Orleans, great benefits. Including unlimited paid time off, wellness fund, monthly reimbursement of wifi and telephone expenses, generous parental leave, and much more. Reach out if you would like me to refer you:)

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One of my coworkers thinks she deserves more PTO than it is allowed in our agency because she's "struggling". We all struggle with our own battles but she's being very rude about it. How can we handle this?

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I would like to take advantage of our unlimited PTO but afraid to start the year bottom of the rankings. Is It typically slow at the beginning of the year?

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Does PwC has anything similar to Well-being subsidy in Deloitte? Also, in a year how many PTO days can a person accrue at PwC?

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Is there a course on startups about terminology regarding funding ?

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Hi Fishes,
YOE - 3.3, Tech stack - Java, React, Node.
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Chicago what is going on in your city??

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So you didn’t concept the original spot...
You didn’t even write the original spot...
But when the team became too busy, you had to come in and do small re-writes for the spot...
Then you had to edit the spot...
Direct VO for the spot...
Choose new music for the spot...

I guess what I’m trying to ask is...

Who all gets the credit for the spot?

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This is insanely stupid and insensitive right? I’m not crazy?

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Hello Sharks,

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I started a new job in a new city. I got an interim sponsor (I do AA). She asked me to do 90 meetings in 90 days. (Cont in post)

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Have you worked on an alcohol account? What happens when you get staffed on one? Was it a problem for you?

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Curious to hear how this group deals with burnout as our brains are very different than non-alcoholics

Tomorrow, Wednesday at 12PM EST, is our sober in advertising AA meeting. Still looking for a speaker if someone is willing to qualify!

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I’ve slowly started drinking less and less. And the less I’m drinking the more I realize just how much of my time revolved around alcohol. From going to get it, to drinking it to fighting hangovers. Now I realize I need something to fill all that time with. Especially now that I’m not spending all day saturday and sunday deathly hungover. I go for walks and run errands…but in a shock to me…there’s still a lot of time left. How did you start spending your time once you stopped drinking?

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How many meetings do you go to a weekend what's your time? I go to 2-4 and I have 15 years.

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I have a few years under my belt + just went Agency side and I can’t tell you how much of a “god shot” it is to find this bowl after meeting W/ my sponsor to talk about agent drinking culture

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I need some meeting reco’s in Manhattan — particularly on the west side if possible. I know any meeting can be a good one, but need to find a couple with cool people & solid recovery. Any suggestions would be much appreciated. 🙏🏼

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Some have expressed interest in starting a meeting for this bowl, so I made a meeting ID on zoom. Before I schedule anything I wanted to pitch it to the group for thoughts on time and day and process

I also wanted to see if we could maybe use the group to create the meeting format. We have plenty of great writers in here, maybe some would like to take a stab at the script?

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I don’t struggle with alcoholism. I just have no interest in drinking, and therefore it seems I will NEVER have a social place at my agency. It drives me fucking crazy how obsessed they are with booze

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People that have given up drinking who didn’t have a problem with alcoholism or addiction: how long have you gone? What were the positive outcomes?

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If u have the addictive gene, Advertising is so easy to self destruct. Supporting each other is invaluable. Keep these posts going. It DOES get better. U can be sober in advertising.

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just hit 1 year of sobriety. only went to one AA meeting my 1st week of getting clean, but tired of strong-arming it and feeling the need for community lately - good meetings in downtown nyc or bk?

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Did anyone here get sober and discover they were potentially self medicating symptoms of a neurodivergent brain? Ever since I got sober, I’ve have had MORE issues with executive functioning, racing brain, inability to focus. This was unexpected, as I thought I’d have more mental agility due to the fog lifting. Now my brain is running at full speed but I am unable to harness it. My brain is a honey badger. It doesn’t GAF.
Anyway, I’m now scheduled for an ADHD eval at the urging of my therapist.

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Any meetings for ad people in la? I find no one really understands how we work in normal aa meetings. They find it suspect when I’m at work till 10pm every night for 3 weeks.

Full calendar month today. Longest without drinking in a very long time. I found it easier than I thought I would, but holy fuck has my sugar intake gone up.

Did others experience the same? Any tips?

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I've found it's just easier to be transparent. Nobody really cares. And it actually opens other people up

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