What’s a normal thing people do at work that secretly gives you the ick?

I feel like everyone has at least one. I’ll start: walking into the elevator before letting everyone else out

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Grown adults who say, “gives me the ick.” It sends shivers down my spine.

(Sorry, but you asked)

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When ppl get away being lazy on the job

Corporate Speak

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Ugh same

Complainers. I don't mean pushing back on unrealistic expectations or deadlines or whatever but the people who cannot stop moaning about the nature of the work or client taste level or whatever.

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Valid

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Loud voices talking over the quieter, thoughtful speakers.

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Yes, that too! If I had more authority, I would say things like: “I want to go back to a comment [name] mentioned. What were you thinking?”

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Eating salads in meetings. People gotta eat but those things are loud and take forever to consume.

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I mean… you gotta mix in the dressing somehow 🤣

People who decide to come into work when they are ill.

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This annoys me so much too

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Not saying hi or ignoring security or cleaning staff

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Oh 100%

Complain about some background noise they heard on Zoom when it's clear the guilty party has already muted themselves.

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Omg i hate when that happens

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Say “Happy (insert day)”

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Smoke and/or wear perfume/cologne.

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Damn. So much new found respect for Hannah Ann 🙌🏼

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Is anyone part of Toigo? How helpful is/was it in your career search?

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Is it good to join as project manager in hcl with 12 yoe?. My top priority is for job security and wlb.

Any chance SG rental prices will be coming down soon ? I'm returning to SG after 3 years abroad and debating staying at figment or hmlet for a few months before locking down a 2 year lease.

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At what point do you walk away when bosses or team values do not align with your personal values? Boss told me I’m too soft and I should be prepared to burn bridges if it’s a good outcome for company.

Other than MAANG, which companies are good for the data scientists in India (both product and service)? Good in terms of project complexity, rigor of analytical approach, scale of problems, implementation opportunities, usage of latest tech stack, innovation, mlops best practices etc.

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Does anyone else feel bad about lifting the window shade after a long flight for pics before landing? I feel like I’ve blinded everyone. (Dolomites)

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Walmart Tech India- Hi 🐠,how long does it take for walmart to release offer letter post the HM round.

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Has anyone successfully internally transferred from Deloitte US to Deloitte Canada or Deloitte Australia? I am interviewing currently with the firm and would like to chat.

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Trying to build my book and I’m making good connections but not finding any immediate opportunities. Do you cold call or rely on referrals to build your pipeline?

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I’ve got my first CFP course exam on Monday. I’m going through the American College HS300. Any advice or tips? I feel good overall, but still nervous. Thank you.

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Heard from me:

“Oh, junior person, you have edits to the monthly activity report 3 days after your deadline to review the report, and after I sent it to the client? How lovely for you."

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What is the value in professional certifications? ACCA, CFA, CIPD, etc.

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I'm receiving an offer this week for a role as an integrations delivery manager. Does anyone have salary insight around a role such as this?
I honestly have no idea what I might be offered, hence my post, because there's too many variances posted online. I have cross experience in my role now, and have been with the company 7 years now. Just a different business unit and position title I'm unfamiliar with

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How is alcon interms of wlb , job security and hikes?

Hi fishes ,

I received an offer for senior manager position in PWC .

Can you please let me know about the health insurance coverage amount ( senior manager position ) as it is not mentioned in offer letter.

Learning cloud architecture right now so apologies if these are obvious questions: Best ways to store video metadata to perform analysis on it? I'm looking at AWS and GCP. Saw that Cassandra would be good for it, but not sure what the GCP equivalent is? But also I'm a bit confused on if Cassandra is just a DB and storage would need to be elsewhere? All help is welcome! I've been spinning my wheels on Google trying to understand

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What is the salary range of Manager - Projects in Cognizant? Also, if anyone can help me the day to day activities that would be great.
Cognizant

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I recently got an offer from Accenture but I am not sure about the job security as I heard they have laid off many employees. Need your inpur on this please.

TIA 🙏

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Client removes all copy in ads re: product description or product benefits due to pending legal review. Removes visuals of product doing its job. Blames agency that ads aren’t driving traffic/sales

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Remember this: you can only do one thing at a time. Make one decision at a time. Be in one meeting at a time. So for everyone overwhelmed about what they’ve got to do today, go out there and gettem!

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Finally wrote the 3 social scripts 2 hours before they were due when I was briefed over 2 weeks ago, what are you doing?

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I got the job. That is all.

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This may sound odd, but can you run an agency without an ECD/CCO?? (Asking for a friend)

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Why do people in this industry say "like" so much? It makes it annoying to, like, walk around the building and listen

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Can someone explain the benefit of SAG to me? I obviously don’t deal with production that much but from everything I’ve heard it just sounds like a giant mafia racket…

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Hiring managers and recruiters: a lot of well-respected schools (Harvard, BC, Cornell, Penn State, MIT) now have pretty robust online programs. Contd

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Have layoffs been finished for the year or are more coming?

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When you work late, you get to snoop around the office. Given.

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What small or mid sized NYC shops are doing good work right now?

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What’s it like producing at 360i NY?

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Today my boss told me I need to work on showing my frustration directly to people. She mentioned a meeting THREE weeks ago where, during a meeting, I said one single thing that showed I was unhappy with not being included in a particular meeting (for a project I was leading), and my tone made it clear I was unhappy about it. She said the person I “called out” didn’t even bring it up to her; it was what she “noticed.” Cont’d...

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Is anyone else unable to change their title on comments? It switches to my company and won’t let me change it to anything else.

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Adoptable dogs on beer cans: copy or coincidence?

Motorworks Brewing in Florida did this years ago, and now Uncommon just did the exact same thing for Brewdog beer.

Straight up plagiarism imo. Literally search "adoptable dog on beer can" and the Motorworks stuff comes up, so not googling the idea beforehand is not an excuse.

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Which agencies are going through layoffs

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Any word on Swift in Portland?

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Those let go by Y&R/VMLY&R - did you get severance and how many months?

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