What's an appropriate holiday gift for your Black accounting manager/supervisor? We don't have a super close relationship but I respect him and look up to him, just not sure where to even start with a gift. What's a good price range to stay in?

Is Proper Cloth worth it for work shirts? Any other made to measure shirt tailors you’d recommend?

How would you recommend tackling a middle manager bad mouthing to team members and seniors despite having left the job? I worked as a consultant at a globally reputed firm but with a terrible, mind draining team culture — now the middle manager is bad mouthing and of course not communicating her inability to manage her own time, leading to work calls at 10 pm in night and abusive language at work.

What are some good books to read if I want to learn how to better show up for the team as a manager?

If an employee files a complaint about workplace behavior, do you treat them differently? I'm faced with reporting an SM for bullying and finding it near imposible to believe that it won't (cont'd)

Will be leaving for a competitor (different consulting firm) soon and trying to figure out how to approach 2 weeks notice. I have several weeks of unused vacation still - will / can my firm force me to use my vacation time during my two week notice period? Will they give me any work, especially since I'm going to a competitor?

I'm feeling a lot of anger towards my manager (now he's acting normal but there were moments where he was condescending/dismissive/mocked my and others work/arrogant/said stuff was "wrong" constantly/belittling the difficulty of tasks etc. in the past project).
Maybe it is "standard chewing out" but it bothered me a lot. So much that I find myself still getting all fired up inside thinking about it...
Idk how to let go of this :/ Thoughts?

A partner I work for keeps asking for ETA's on assignments I have already submitted to the senior associate on the deal for review. Does it sound like I'm throwing the senior associate under the bus if I say I have already submitted to senior associate and am waiting for feedback? I feel like the partner will get upset at me even more if my answer sounds like I haven't submitted the assignment to the senior associate yet.

How do you actually not have work when you take a vacation? Impossible

Do other ladies on here ever have days when they dress up for work with no good reason just to see how people will react?

Hello, what dress clothes do you wear to work?

If you were attracted to a subordinate coworker would you by all means try to avoid being placed on same engagement team to avoid obvious or put more effort and request that they be put on your team?

Does anyone know what the dress code is for the upcoming CAALA Trial Skills seminar? Do people usually wear suits or is it business casual? Thank you!

My boss has video on every single meeting. Status? On. IR? On. Not presenting and just there to chill? On. Even when no one else has it on and knowing it’ll just be his face taking up the whole screen. I’m starting to think he just likes to think we all love staring at him.

For those that lateraled to another firm for FDD work - was your 2 week period paid out? Were you worked? Should I expect to have a 2 week paid vacation when I put in notice?

Receiving approx 30% pay bump to move firms. Stay schemin boys

Are you supposed to say your first and last name when you introduce yourself to a client contact? I keep saying my first name and feel weird when they say both

Is it as hard to take PTO as people say? I have a couple of long weekend trips planned (covid willing) in May and June, which is right after I start, but have heard that it’s normal to have to cancel plans due to last minute deals coming in. Any tips??

Director of Marketing wants me to write some conversation snippets for a chatbot, but I think those things drive potential clients away. Trying to figure out if I should tell him or not

What are the travel opportunities for a functional consultant at PWC AC Banglore and also any info about moving abroad internally

will fidelity extend doj ? my actual is may 23rd. i want to change it to july 11. no response after dropping mail. pls advise

What % of your free time do you spend at home compared to outside the house? (exclude time spent at work or sleeping)

My 70+ year old dad just got on Facebook and kind of rocking it! He is just on there spreading the positivity. Ha ha

And he only had to create 4 accounts to do it.

Question for my 401k focused advisors out there--what programs are you using that is instrumental to your 401k practice that you simply can't do without? I'm being pitched on Envestnet & im not sold.

Anyone heard of Projective groups? Interested in finding out more about the firm.

Working in Amazon as Process Lead (L4) - over all 5 YOE, looking for opportunities in other companies related to operations lead or Business Analysis(have okayish knowledge in SQL and Excel, won't mind learning other tools as well)

I am getting an offer of 12lpa fixed from EY GDS. YoE 5 years. Cybersecurity domain. My fixed was at 8.7 lpa. How is the offer? Rank is 44.

I've heard from multiple people about how inflated the assets are and high the P/E ratio is, hence not a good time to invest in the market. Long term investors, how do you deal with this argument? P.s. I understand the time in the market>time the market.

Hey Fishes,

Joined LTI recently in P3 band. However not allocated any project. Got a call from the resource management team to relocate, which I rejected upfront as I was promised a role in the location I am posted. It has been over 2 weeks since I am in bench. What shall be the next steps, shall I wait for some days or start looking for other jobs as getting a project looks difficult as there are minimalist responses.

Anyone still in Nano (Raiblocks)? 🔮what is the future looking like for this? 🔮

Hi google. It's my dream company. I working as a profession Data Analyst. So I observe a many technical things. As I said their is a bug I find in a Google Meet on a meeting. Google meet eventually creates a Multiple windows at a time. Can you fix this bug. I usually see this many times.

Can anyone pls help me in RRP ??

What are some things you do daily or weekly to improve as a product marketer? I’m looking for examples of how you use your personal time to improve as well as what you do at work.

Inflation report out today. Question- Does this report comes out every month?
is there some fed announcement or meeting schedule for the year?

Hi
I am 2.6 years experienced cloud and Infrastructure engineer. I want to switch companies for better growth and learning opportunities. I have done AWS solutions architect Associate certification and AZ-900 certification. I have good knowledge on linux Administration, shell Scripting and java programming language. Please refer me or suggest me ways I can get calls from other companies.

For us, what’s the best big four firm to work for and why?

Anyone at Microsoft? My dream is to work for Xbox. Would love for some guidance. 🖤

Just had someone reach out asking me to run for a seat on the school board.

What have you heard or what do you think about such opportunities, particularly when the day job eats up so much time?

Job referral- Eide Bailly is looking for remote bookkeepers, accountants & tax professionals. Let me know if you need a referral.

Promotions finally announced to all staff and bonuses in the this pay period. How's it looking for the rest of y'all! Generally happy or more ready to bounce?

Work-Life Balance Thread 🌱

What are ways that you separate work and personal life? Tips, practices, resources?

Drop them in the comments below, help another user!

In your opinion, which top firms offer the most support for Black accountants?

To those involved with business development and sales, how has your network helped you in achieving sales targets? And in this case network means your black people network.

Are there any entreprenuers in this group?

Would you ever mentor a junior accountant at your firm? Do they reach out to you? I really would like to help more younger people get into the industry.

Anybody work in ethics and compliance? If so, what’s your current role and previous experience? I’m curious what my career path could look like in this area. I previously was in public accounting

Self-Promotion Alert: In association with my upcoming personal finance blog, I have a draft of a blog post about paying off my car that I would love to get some feedback on

DM me if you’re interested

Curious how everyone is doing with their coworkers these days amidst the current political climate. I know our field tends to lean conservative so just curious how you're dealing.

Now that the holiday season has arrived, what's on the secret wish list for Black professionals in the accounting world?

Anyone in transactions advisory at Deloitte, KPMG, PWC or Valuation at Duff & Phelps? Would like to understand the culture there. EY is not working for me.

2020 and this first full week of 2021 were the pushes I needed to finally get a therapist. How are y'all holding up?

I’ve been lurking at the net worth/savings posts on here. I started out negative and am still negative and working on it. Is it common amongst minorities or just me? My folks couldn’t help.

Any thoughts to the group on the states opening up?

AZ here - I think it's too soon