What’s the longest amount of time you’ve spent on the bench? And what did you do during the time? First time on the bench after 3 years here

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3 months, bounced a tennis ball against a wall

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6 months, did random proposals for junior managers who showed it to be their own work.

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Lol sad

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4 months.. spent the whole time literally on the beach in California

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2 months. BD work, training, networking, travel :-)

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4 months
Trainings and networking

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1 month after my first study. Wish I’d chilled the fuck out and didn’t interpret it was I’d done badly on my first one so no one wanted to take me

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How did you guys manage to be on the bench for so long? How did you avoid being staffed ?

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Right after college, participated in the training, then straight to bench. We were a bunch of 100 odd people hitting bench, stayed in the company campus dormitory, and the place was heaven. Swimming pool, table tennis, drinking and never showing up to the office until they assigned a project. This was like 2-3 months. Never been on bench since then.

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1 day 😂😭🙁

It was the end of the FY - staffing was tight.

2 months... gym. Lots to catch up on

1 month— networking, catching up on training, me time

Two months. Caught up on a lot of sleep, spent time babysitting my nephew, shopping, redecorating. Most of the time I couldn't 100% relax during work hour bc I thought I'd get pings throughout the day (hardly ever did)'

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