The thing about the holdcos (or agencies in general) the best (including most motivated/ happiest employees) have good CEOs. The worst try to change the leadership team and think it will help with talent, change agents, morale, growth and anything else that helps w/ headlines. Nothing matters if the CEO is toxic. After the honeymoon stage is over the new leadership team has changed nothing and never could while the rest of the employees don’t care again. Over and over until the end of time.

Anyone else find themselves getting extremely stressed at work during pregnancy? It’s like my emotions are just off and I get so stressed so easily. I want to be calm for baby but it’s hard to not get worked up!

If I am searching for an external audit position as a senior associate in public accounting particularly in the healthcare industry what is a competitive wage? Currently I am 1 year in as a senior associate at a top 5 firm and making less than 80k. I do not have my CPA yet but working at it. I have 3 exams left to pass.

When can I expect the onboarding kit to get delivered ? I have joining in 7 days.

@Assurance - Promotion letters started rolling out already?!

When is busy season over for the SOX side of stuff? Please tell it doesn’t go past 12/31.

Are you guys have come to pune or still working from home town?

Which is more painful: watching litigators draft contracts or transactional attorneys litigate?

I’m a second year in general litigation. I’ve been drafting briefs, memos, letters, motions, etc. but I’m getting the documents back with a lot of redline. From what I see, majority of my research, thoughts, and substance is there but it doesn’t feel good seeing all those redlines. Is it normal to see all those redlines or am I doing something wrong?

White collar folks - how busy are you guys now?

Anyone find themselves apologizing for everything, even stuff other people messed up? If I’m just relaying info and that turns out to be wrong, I still am the one to apologize. Especially if it’s to attorneys or partners. Why do I do this?

Which company is good to join ?

Really want to stay WFH for longer, it’s really worked out well for me. Any ideas what companies could be WFH long term ?

Went through multi-day loop for L5 SA and felt confident in my interactions. Presentation went well with no lack of answers for follow up questions. Just found out 6 days later I will not be receiving an offer, and it is policy to not provide feedback of gaps or reasons behind no offer. Also found out they ask you not to reapply for 1 to 2 years for same role. Would anyone recommend an alternate path for feedback on interview (outside of recruiter) and is the 1-2 year policy true?

Planning a one-week summer vacation to Yellowstone Park area. Family unit of 6, so need to rent a single, large SUV. Just looked at prices and the cheapest car available for 6 people with unlimited mileage is $3,500+. Makes the vacation almost not worth it. Anyone have any recommendations on how to get a better deal? Any discount codes? Thank you in advance!!

I am close to gold on Delta and can get just over it. Or I can stay under 50k and roll over MQMs to get to gold early next year. Would both options give me gold status only through Jan 2020?

Thoughts on whether it’s ok to take an Excel assessment being sent to my personal email on my work laptop? personal laptop is a Mac and I know none of the shortcuts

In your opinion, what advertising/branding/experiential agencies should someone targeting greater San Diego and Los Angeles go after? (Yes, it is very expensive to live in California)

Remember The Woo? Yeah, me neither. Well, they cut everyone’s pay (except mgmt of course) by 1/4 to get the small biz gov loan, and used it to hire a $500k/yr mgmt head. Agency still working barebones

How do I be a decent manager to a coworker who's upset I've been promoted twice in two years and they haven't? We started out as coworkers, became decent friends after a few good moments, but went back to simply coworkers after they flubbed a few projects and I had to step in to clean up. I'm non-confrontational but year-end reviews are right around the corner and I'm worried about having to act professional to someone who I got too close with and who now hates me.

Hypothetically, what might happen, if Strat said to fishbowl they needed a virtual hug? Other than CD potentially saying something snarky and mean ...hypothetically only.

I need infographic tips please!

What are your favorite millennial traits?

So why do company merges result in mass layoffs?

Considering taking a Jr CW job in pharma in NYC after being on the job hunt for 9 months. I’m terrified of getting stuck, but I also want to switch to brand strategy. Chances of escaping if I hate it?

What are the best brands with work life balance? Want to leave agency and work life balance is super important, thank u!!

Can you we have centennial week again next week? Just sayin it would be dopeAF

What do you put in your timesheet after a day of staring at your computer? We all have days that are less than productive, right? Speaking as a creative, anyway.

The bond yield curve just inverted. If you don’t have to make any major purchases for the next year, that’s probably a good thing

What does your (romantic) partner do? Is there a big income disparity between the two of you?

How much does it cost the agency for a cannes entry?

If you get an offer a few days before you have a final interview (or while you're waiting to hear back), is it okay to ask for some time? Or do they expect you to answer right there?

i'm in the final round for 2 different media positions in 2 completely different places (NYC and NC) and things are moving really quickly for both. the NYC job is my dream one but they're both offering $40k so i'm conflicted. any advice would be helpful lol

What’s something a guy has said in a meeting you could never pull off as a woman? I’ll go. One time a guy creative was presenting his work and said “yeah this was just me being lazy and not wanting to do any work” and he literally suggested we do the same ads as last year, with a different celebrity plugged in. CDs in the meeting laughed and considered it for a minute. If I had presented that and said I was being lazy, I would prob be put on the chopping block.

Does anyone else feel like people who are generally nice in person and on calls sound mean or stand-offish in emails and text/chat? I get that over-use of friendliness in text can come off as green/immature, but I tend to try and cushion my words with positivity or even exclamation marks/the occasional emoji to show that I don't sound completely unemotional.

Or maybe i'm just an overthinking copywriter who's reading into it too much.

What are the steps to becoming a marketing manager on the client side?

If your agency would pay for any training, education, certification you wanted (no limits on time or money including PTO to complete) what would you do?