What's the best way to use AMEX points other than travel?

Do Big 4 partners need to maintain any level of independence in retirement?

Best small carry on? They keep shrinking the acceptable luggage size and half of the models out there don't qualify

Planning a trip to Rome and Naples with day trips to Tivoli and Pompeii. Is 1 week enough? I feel like reading through 3/4 day Rome and 2 day Naples itineraries, the trip seems rushed. I have unlimited PTO but my SO is limited in time (but luckily he can work extra hrs and then use less PTO). I would say max we could do is 1.5 weeks but adding on 3-5 more days seems almost too much? Thoughts? For reference, I did Venice-Florence-Rome in a week and it seemed okay but it also wasn’t as planned out

Hello Fishes!
Any idea how long does it take to get a German visa appointment for EU Blue card and dependents? I am based in Chennai and have been trying since 2 weeks, no luck.
Do slots really open up at certain timings? Also, am in the waitlist pool for Chennai location, would I be able to add myself to waitlist pool for Hyderabad location as well?
Am supposed to join work by Aug 30th. Please help!

What's a usual amount of time that you have to stay somewhere in order for your RSUs to vest?

Recently sold my car on carvana. I had initially bought it using a loan from DCU. Now that carvana has paid me the balance after paying of the loan, i still see on the dcu app that I owe money to dcu. People that can relate, can you take me through next steps?

What are the pain points or challenges being a vendor in staff augmentation 2022

Rental expenses: experts recommend spending no more than 30% of gross income on housing per month. What’s your: 1) monthly gross, 2) % spent on housing, 3) high/medium/low cost of living city? Trying to get an idea of how y’all investment fish prioritize housing vs savings.

Heads up: Hilton is giving triple points during July if you use their credit card for booking. Good opportunity to make up to 54 points per $1. Time to stack up those points! Happy monday! :D

Does the employee get both the employer and employee contribution to PF or only own contribution to PF?

Is Providence a good destination for a 3 day trip with my friends (4 F, early/mid 30s)?
Do you have any recommendations? The alternative is to meet in NYC (we all have been to NYC, but could be fun).

Any chances to move from Europe to the States? How’s the visa situation? Are agencies sponsoring?

Both my grandparents died within the last few years (husband/wife) and now the siblings (including my dad) need to divide up the remaining estate. My dad is the oldest and has been the primary caretaker for both of his parents, who lived to their late 80’s/early 90’s and his disabled sister. He also manages an apartment building for the family. Now the youngest brother wants to do a bunch of auditing of accounts and is ready to take my dad to court. I’m like, you had 15+ years to get (cont)

For any of you real estate investors, what tools or sources did you learn from when getting started. Can’t find a mentor currently so want to find some highly recommended books or videos. If focused on the tri-state area (NY, NJ, Long Island mainly) that would be even better. My hope is to buy and rent out a apartment while also owning a house and house hacking that by renting part of it out. Trying to understand all the steps, traps, and how to find if it’s a good investment.

Will interest rates ever get back down to covid era levels?

Quick question - I have an offer from Accenture consulting. I am on dependant visa here in US. What happens in case my extension gets denied? Is Accenture flexible to support my relocation to my home country . Accenture does have a presence there.

Hi fishes,
How is the wlb in Amex?

Does anyone know what Kirkland’s billing year is? Aka when do hours start again?

Hey All - Can we agree to make a collective effort to reduce the repeat content here? Things are moving quickly and we don’t always have time to check, but having 2-4x of the same link/tweet/topic splits any convo and exhausts interest in engaging multiple topics bc new ones are hard to find.

‘You won’t be safe in Biden’s America’ -says a man who is the president whilst these events are occurring.
How is trump making the case that 1)the president has something to do with local incidents and that 2)Biden is somehow responsible and he, the president, is not responsible?

Joined tcs around 1 month back and submitted all the joining related documents but still didn't received my employee Id.upon checking with hr i am getting information that there is technical glitch due to which employee Id is not getting generated. Is one else facing this issue ? What can be done in this situation ?

So do higher ups (managers/directors/etc) in FFD talk to each other about the progress of seniors and associates in a similar manner to how the staff are ranked during audit roundtables??

Hi Dolphins,
Please give me 11 likes on this post so I can get DM access. Thanks in advance! 😊

Why is it so hard to move out of federal consulting and into the private sector?

Friends please help me career growth in Salesforce. Currently I have 6.7 years experience in functional testing.
My company is giving opportunity to learn Salesforce and they will give projects based on that.

So thinking whether take that opportunity or continue in the same Functional Testing.

Can anyone tell me about the Rosslyn practice in Deloitte? Is it any good? Are they winning so much that they get tired of winning so much?

Looking for remote working opportunities as a Business Anlayst or Product Owner. Have 5+ years for work experience as a Business Analyst/Product Owner post MBA.
Please share any possible openings or referrals.
Thanks !

Sir / Friends 🙏🏻
Does TCS accepts buyout in place of serving NP?

Any of you heading to SXSW? Looking to meet some new peeps.

Has anyone else told their religious parents that they were moving in with an SO before marriage? I did, it didn’t go super well- they disapprove of it (cont)

Is an offer after only a first screener a red flag?

What is it like to work in a design and development team in sap labs as full stack abap developer?

Hi fishes,
I got 13 LPA offer from IBM.
Will IBM revise my offer if i bring 15 LPA offer in coming days?
Considering the time of recession are they revising the offer these days?

Leo loses Allstate to Droga. I know this was a long time coming, but it’s yet another big loss for Chicago.

Microsoft, Salesforce, Amazon? Same TC.

Definitely some consultants just sat down next to me at the bar. Overheard: "How many shots should we take?" "Depends. How many slides do you want in the deck?"

Alright, fishies, let’s try this again. Name drop boutique firms that have offices in San Francisco Bay Area. Big 4 is not my future (as many many MANY of you have repeatedly said I’m not good enough for). So, I’m taking the hint and crossing MBB and Big 4 off my list but still hoping a smaller firm will consider me.

Any book recommendations on handling office politics?

SM asked us to shifted client billing hours to non-chargeable code... Will significantly impact utilization... Sucks

I want to do PD but also just want to get utilized.

I have been on a local client since forever and now considering to travel to work on projects I like. Can anyone tell me how miserable or fun traveling is?

To the savage who didn't flush your vile mess away may explosive diarrhea strike you on the subway tonight.

Considering an offer from EY but y'all seem pretty unhappy. Is it really that bad?

EY fish - when you are laid off, is it immediate the day you're told or do you get a little warning?

Are there any good movies or novels that show skill development - like follow through? Self-management? Money management? I read a lot of self help books so I know a lot of the theory, and books peppered with examples help, but I feel like most 1 paragraph examples don’t five justice to how hard it may be to change a behavior.

Does NYC have any small government contracting firms?

Do any of the top consulting firms hire into the Engagement Manager level after an M7 (if they had manager experience elsewhere)? I know MBB probably doesn’t but what about other tier 2 firms after that - and asking for US or Canada

That feeling of knowing you worked your ass off and made sacrifices in your personal life for a promotion you were told you’d be getting at the end of the year, while receiving great feedback all year, only to be told “sorry, maybe next cycle….” 😔

Always see people at the airport bar next to my gate at 9 am on Monday. Who the hell drinks on a Monday morning???

Which consulting firms are hiring for experienced Associate position? Have a friend who got laid off and looking for another job.

Utilization director told me today that the layoffs won't affect me. My heart goes out to everyone that had to hear otherwise. Here's to hoping y'all find something better and prosper.

Which national parks should I visit next year? Looking for any and all recommendations!

Masters baby what a time

My gf who I plan on marrying wants 4 kids and wants them all to have catholic schooling throughout their lives. I plan to compromise w either 4 kids public or 2 kids all catholic school. Is this fair?

When they say utilization doesn't count for the month of May/June what exactly does that entail? I'm assuming being on the bench for those months will still show on personal utilization reports...