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Comments here are pretty immature and gross. If you're a mature adult that's looking to gain as much out of training as possible while also enjoying parts of a new city, I say, look up your per diem and find a restaurant you want to try. Get good sleep, find a way to get some exercise. Enjoy the hotel stay and stay out of trouble!
Rising Star
don't forget the condoms and lube
Pro
Condoms for the young and lube for the old? Lots of age variation at these training sites who knows what you will encounter
Advice based on my new hire training at a Big 4:
—Act professional, assume that they will report your performance/activities back to your office.
If you are new to the firm and a new associate they seem to scrutinize and be extra critical.
My coworker who had previously interned did not have the same scrutiny.
They told us that some of the employees took the train into town for dinner, got drunk, didn’t make it to class in the morning, and were fired. (Likely just a scare tactic, but the reporting back to your office is a real possibility).
—Try to learn and absorb what you can. Hopefully they give you good information and resources/guidance that you can refer back to when you are working.
—Network. Spend time with the people from your office and also meet people from different offices. You might see them again at future annual trainings. And they might be able to refer you if you want to transfer offices later.
—check the policies about travel and per diem before you go. On nights where dinner is not provided you can probably expense an uber ride to go get dinner at a good restaurant (spend your dinner per diem on dinner). Recommend taking advantage of having work pay for your uber to go get whatever dinner you want, instead of eating at the more expensive hotel restaurant.
Pro
Briefly skim through the alcohol abuse and sexual assault policy at your firm.
If you sign into the class go to the class, don’t turn around. You will get reported and likely fired.
Network. Start to build out connections because you never know when leveraging your network can lead to a new role.
You can do actual receipts instead of per diem for RSM