To ease younger associates scared of losing their jobs at any moment, can we start a collection of instances where you’ve seen a firm actually fire someone? Like what kind of behavior warrants a firing?

As a single female fish I feel like any time I'm out of the office I find it so hard to differentiate people I would have seen on mixer or twitch compared to hippies! Fortnite br.. let's go!

Which is best option Society General or Grant Thornton? SG with slightly higher CTC.

Sitting or standing desk?

anyone know about Apple’s marcom team?

Show of hands, please — my fellow minorities in Adland. Want to to know how diverse our agencies REALLY are. I’ll start. 💁🏽‍♀️

Overall, what is the work life balance like in Chicago compared to New York. Thinking about making the move...

Is strategy/planning/positioning dead?
First, DDB sells Kroger that their positioning is that they sell fresh groceries. As if there are stores that sell wilted, rotting groceries?
Then the people at KFC walk away from W+K to change “it’s” to “that’s” finger licking good. Really?
And now, Arby’s, the anti-burger joint, has a burger. What happened to positioning?

Is it customary to feel iced out at a new place? A simple good morning or acknowledging that I'm alive would be cool.

From 180k full time to 200k and 10 percent sweat equity in a boutique consulting firm as their cto, to kickstart their AWS practice .. any thoughts. This new company does not have any product thinking or strategy and full lifecycle cloud delivery pedigree yet ..

$100k on a 3 watch collection… retail or MV for vintage pieces. Go

Can you focus solely on Public/Social sector clients at the associate level at McK or Bain?

Hello all,

My contract with the current client ends on December. What is the next step after that. Whom do I need to approach for next project?. Can we say specific any preference about the project like work timing?

I have about $45k cash on hand. Job looks pretty safe but I want a fall back in the event of job loss and / or recession. I have student loans of about that same amount on pause but at an 8% interest rate once they start up again.
What should I be doing with it?

Where can a sartorially challenged gentleman get some support? Do department stores have real stylists to help?

Could you all please suggest or share any tips/key things to prepare for an upcoming AWS Partner SA, Security phone interview. Already prepared for LPs. Thank you.

Hi Guys, how much salary should be expected for SDM L6 role in Toronto?

I gave an interview on thursday, till now I havent heard back. Even drop an email still no reply. So kat gya kya?

What will be CTC for Advanced analyst?
YoE - 1

Hunton AK - Capital Markets group in Houston… yay or nay?

A client had something sitting on their desk for 2 weeks and emails us urgently asking for it to be done today. Told the partner I have 4 closings and he told me to “find the time”. Do partners and clients just get off from this sort of thing?

What’s the right calendar invite subject line to schedule a call for giving notice? I am a huge fan of my firm but I’m leaving for a big upgrade. I’m very sad but this is best for me.

Looking for recommendations for a virtual therapy sessions to help me manage chronic anxiety related to work and my relationship. It’s been consuming me lately and I believe that I’m opposed to medication. Any other tips on anxiety management/overthinking are appreciated.

Any book recommendations for someone starting as an associate in cap markets to get a better feel for the field?

Transactional associates at Holland & Knight: what are you billing annually, on average?

How is V&E Houston?

It is incredibly demoralizing to be killing myself slogging through diligence for a very complicated target, including drafting an extensive diligence memo, all on a very tight timeline, just to be left off all the interesting calls about the purchase agreement where I could learn b/c partner is concerned about the bill & doesn’t want to write off time. It makes me feel like I’m not on the team & am just a worker bee drone & I am way less motivated to do my best work.

Partners, do better.

Take a look at Maryann Zaki’s recent Linkedin post on her big law experiences (posted it in the comments). I wish more people would speak up that have worked in big law for an extended period of time.

London Biglaw: heard layoffs are happening and/or imminent. In a team meeting we got the usual shill about no promises for the next year. Needless to say, the question of the day has gone from “how much is my bonus” to “will I be around here next year”. What’s the sitch like for everyone?

I realized recently that I can turn my “super associate” persona at any time. I had it off during covid when my kids needed me and got a bad review. So now it’s back on. I’m responding to midnight emails (and daytime ones in under 20 minutes) and getting work done the same morning. I’m spending countless hours doing edits over edits. I actually don’t like super associate. Why do people live like this 24/7?!? 🤔

When working with a recruiter, if you’re not 100% certain about the job you interviewed for, and would prefer to go about the process on your own timeline, how do you navigate? Recruiter tends to push things faster than I’d like the process to go.

How many work hours does it take for you to bill 8 hours? Feeling like I’m inefficient.

What class years do you consider midlevel? 3-4?

Anyone else been cut out by their entire immediate family? Not financially, but emotionally. This has been extremely hard for me - I am the only one in my immediate family that has children and still, no one seems to cares.

Lab grown diamonds - knock-off energy, or ethical and financially wise?

I’m interested. How do you do collaborate on documents? For me it was always scribbles on a printed document handed to me to type in by a partner. I still get this. Also get photos of markups. Some have learned track changes. Some put arrows on a PDF redline. I prefer track changes because I don’t have to spend time typing stuff manually into documents. What are others views?

Based on the responses on the other thread that think $1M is not enough to quit big law, how much do you personally think is enough to quit big law (but not necessarily retire)? No right or wrong answers I suppose but just curious…

A specialist told me they prefer to be called a subject matter expert and that the word specialist is offensive. Do others feel this way?

Diligence of organizational documents. What do you look for?