Transferred offices in October, how do I handle Secretary/Assistant holiday gifts?

My previous secretary still does all of my reimbursements/travel (don’t ask for help with anything else) and will until the new year, but my new secretary has made a clear effort to be available (even though I haven’t utilized her at all).

Should I be gifting both the standard class year gift?

Will my lifetime SPG nights and lifetime Marriott nights get combined in the new Marriott program?

What are the best things to do in Portland over the holiday season? Just moved here in October and I want to know what's good, I'm single so events where you can meet people would be great too. What's fun here while it's cold??

I wish admin utilized Tier 1 supports with teachers. Smiles, appreciations and acknowledging ones efforts would do a great deal to boost morale and climate. I just don’t understand what that is so hard to do.

Best credit cards for points redemption? Currently have delta platinum Amex and flying delta weekly.

Ever since Risk Assurance busy season ended, I feel like I’ve been kind of coasting. I’m still getting all my work done but my utilization is slipping. With CRTs coming up, how worried should I be?

Anyone have referrals for American Airlines?? Trying to crack into the airline industry. Also, more than happy to team up by sharing connections and networking. Lmk!

Can I use the floating holiday after 9/30 or is it gone?

Successfully made the jump.

Places where I applied and got an interview so at least I know they look at fed backgrounds. Might want to check them out. These were DC area.

Amazon
Google
Marriott
Visa
Facebook

Any book recommendations for philosophy, psychology, and business? Or any book you read last year changed your values? Going to fly international, gonna read it on flight. 😍

Any beach Hotel recommendations is Malaga, SP and Marbella, SP (<$300/night could be slightly more)?
Also, im a US citizen does it make sense to get an Int'l drivers license, rent a car and drive between those places? Any easy way of getting between those places?

Has anyone traveled to Switzerland and used Marriott points? Best area to stay? Traveling with a total of 3 and only hotels in Zurich allow for free stays with only points as others charge extra

What were some challenges y’all faced this week?

I’ll start. Trying to get non local resources utilized. National Leadership thinks this is the answer to our problems but local leadership is hesitant.

In the last PDM town hall, they said they were going to lower utilization targets for those that work on projects with capped hours. For those people, have you seen your utilization target lowered? I haven’t seen shit change for me.

What's your absolute favorite dinner spot in Chi-town? I'm willing to travel, but I'm moving soon so want to hit all of the greats I haven't been to or didn't know about.

Hi everyone! Does anyone know if Morgan Stanley pay for the unused vacation days when you leave the firm (Location NYC)? Thanks in advance!

Hello Everyone, i am working as a contractor with ZS and now i wanted to come to zs office. Will ZS reimburse all my expenses including travel and stay for a month.

Anyone leave Deloitte for Booz Allen? Thoughts or experiences? Utilization and compliance are absolutely doing my head in.

Anyone else here have terrible utilization because their deals die and a code never opens? /can’t find another code to book hours? I’m sitting on over 200 billable hours at this point

Since Biden won, Is it better to go on H4 EAD or one should stay on H1B and get green card process initiated.. Thoughts?

Can someone explain whether you’d buy altcoins as a ETH pair vs a BTC pair? Does it matter?

Looking for advice to safely invest Escrow portion of my mortgage, since I was able to stop paying from Escrowz starting this month.

As you know, this cannot be risk in stock market, what are safe options

Any thoughts about easiest countries to migrate to in 2022?
Factors include
YoE
Education requirements
Any investment required

Hi everyone, have a noob question here. When did you share the pregnancy news with your employer? Not sure when it’s optimal to do that. :)

How has/will droga’s data strategy team be affected after being bought by Accenture? Accenture has their own team of data scientists - will that make droga’s data strategy team obsolete?

Looking job onsite ready to relocate.

What’s the point of having multiple awards for “craft writing” if your agency only sees you as the translator?  🙄

What are the best and worst career decisions you’ve ever made? 💡

How do you all feel about D&I Reports? Do you think they’re still valuable and a stand-alone report or part of an integrated corporate message?

I hope I don't sound foolish, but I was asked to "please attach a CV?" What is that?

You work on a pitch. Lots of your work goes into the deck. Agency wins business. Work for the brand you helped win is secretly given to other teams. Should I be angry? Or is this just how it goes?

Stop asking if we can unionize after being asked to work over the weekend.

I feel like I wouldn't get many tips as a server because I'm a guy, is this really true or am I just making it up?

What are good resources to find apartments in DC. I’m looking to live on my own, no roommates

To all the people buying house at 300-400k mark. How did u do it and what do you make?

I wish I had even a tiny fraction of the energy I had when I first started this job

Question for funds folks, since no one is around to answer any questions and I can't seem to find this answer anywhere. Why can't a placement agent combine or integrate the offering of interests in the sponsor's fund with the contemporaneous offering of interests in another fund? Is it based on reputational risk or from a sales perspective in case someone rejects both funds, any other issues? Thanks!

My senior associate takes 1 week to get back to me with comments and then tells me that I need to turn the document asap. This has happened several times already and I’ve had to pull all nighters to meet these insane deadlines when it’s clear that they just waited until the very last minute to get back to me… any advice? Feel like I’m burning out

Any fellow Georgetown Hoyas alumni wanting to go to John Carroll weekend in Nashville!?

Saw an article about the chilling effect that the Big Law salary raises are having on in house hiring since associates cannot bear to take the pay cut. Do we believe this? Of course if an in house role offers less than a first year salary it’s a tough pill to swallow, but what if the role offers in the mid-200s for a substantially better WLB? Thoughts??

Joining GT…Should I choose a company phone or transfer my phone to GTs plan?

Thoughts on Steptoe & Johnson? Particularly DC office. Considering applying. Thanks!

Month end! How many hours did we bill for March? And how many of us entered it all in the last two days 😬🙋🏻‍♀️

I’m have a new theory about why juniors always feel like idiots and wanted to see if anyone else thinks this makes sense. I’m a third year, and am the most junior person all of my teams (generally me, a senior or two, and a partner or two), and I always feel like I’m messing something up. Is this just because I never get to work with other juniors and don’t see the mistakes they make, and that it’s relatively normal? And FWIW I went to HYS and I’ve had a clerkship so it’s not like I’m not smart

Thoughts on Quinn Emmanuel? How grade conscious are they?

To the lender counsel that forgot to mention they needed original signature pages for a deal that closed early this year and decided to chase and harass me a day before thanksgiving and a day after thanksgiving multiple times. F*ck you. I don’t know what is driving your lack of courtesy but I have represented the same bank before and know their usual original signature requirement.

Beginning to consider going in house (4th, corp) - I really haven’t thought about what I want, partly because I’m not sure what’s out there/attainable. Is it a bad idea to start by applying to a couple positions that interest me and seeing where that gets me? I’ll of course prep for the interviews but am afraid to burn potential bridges if I ultimately decline because I’m still figuring things out.

Pros and cons of taking a class year cut? Partner sees my potential and that there’s an actual evolution but I’m not there yet in terms of experience compared to my peers so he told me to at least consider a class year cut. Is that a nice way to tell me we are not happy with your work product might kick you out of you don’t improve ? Or am I being paranoid here?

Why do firms not give referral bonuses for post-clerkship candidates? If anything, they’re generally more competitive. Unfortunately was told it’s standard practice

Thoughts on recording meetings. In Texas and have ADHD. I’ve been recording internal meetings for the past couple of weeks and my work product has improved exponentially. I’m able to go back and listen to the directions over again. In law school I had a note that gave me permission to do this. Is this taboo in a firm?

What is the average adoption assistance benefit at big law firms?

Today I tried to tell myself what my favorite thing of being a lawyer is, and the only thing I could think about is when the direct deposit hits every couple of weeks…