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The Consortium Thread is DEAD, eh? Anyone want to offer feedback from their sell weekends? I feel like I need to put the jumper cables on this thread... CGSM gmatclub on life support. HELP! HELP!
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Will do my best to re-start the convo Senator! Tuck ASW was great,...met some really cool people,...had a lot of fun. Just counting the days till I start school,...i'm in my cubicle right now screening nonsense emails and filing TPS reports (w/ the right cover sheets). Most of my day is generally spent brainstorming ideas for how/where to spend my summer. Of course these plans will require money,..which is the only thing stopping me from walking out the door before lunchtime. I initially planned on giving notice this week, but I'll wait another week, so I have to keep up appearances. Which is harder than it seems, considering that my dress code has steadily deteriorated the closer I get to my last day. Right now my socks don't match and my shirt isn't ironed. Recently i've also taken to wearing untucked polo shirts. Luckily, nobody notices because people here are more concerned w/ gossip about the next round of layoffs.
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mooze wrote: Will do my best to re-start the convo Senator! Tuck ASW was great,...met some really cool people,...had a lot of fun. Just counting the days till I start school,...i'm in my cubicle right now screening nonsense emails and filing TPS reports (w/ the right cover sheets). Most of my day is generally spent brainstorming ideas for how/where to spend my summer. Of course these plans will require money,..which is the only thing stopping me from walking out the door before lunchtime. I initially planned on giving notice this week, but I'll wait another week, so I have to keep up appearances. Which is harder than it seems, considering that my dress code has steadily deteriorated the closer I get to my last day. Right now my socks don't match and my shirt isn't ironed. Recently i've also taken to wearing untucked polo shirts. Luckily, nobody notices because people here are more concerned w/ gossip about the next round of layoffs. Try to get laid off. Can you say SEVERANCE!!!
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cheetarah1980 wrote: mooze wrote: Will do my best to re-start the convo Senator! Tuck ASW was great,...met some really cool people,...had a lot of fun. Just counting the days till I start school,...i'm in my cubicle right now screening nonsense emails and filing TPS reports (w/ the right cover sheets). Most of my day is generally spent brainstorming ideas for how/where to spend my summer. Of course these plans will require money,..which is the only thing stopping me from walking out the door before lunchtime. I initially planned on giving notice this week, but I'll wait another week, so I have to keep up appearances. Which is harder than it seems, considering that my dress code has steadily deteriorated the closer I get to my last day. Right now my socks don't match and my shirt isn't ironed. Recently i've also taken to wearing untucked polo shirts. Luckily, nobody notices because people here are more concerned w/ gossip about the next round of layoffs. Try to get laid off. Can you say SEVERANCE!!! Haaa! Excellent advice...
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cheetarah1980 wrote: mooze wrote: Will do my best to re-start the convo Senator! Tuck ASW was great,...met some really cool people,...had a lot of fun. Just counting the days till I start school,...i'm in my cubicle right now screening nonsense emails and filing TPS reports (w/ the right cover sheets). Most of my day is generally spent brainstorming ideas for how/where to spend my summer. Of course these plans will require money,..which is the only thing stopping me from walking out the door before lunchtime. I initially planned on giving notice this week, but I'll wait another week, so I have to keep up appearances. Which is harder than it seems, considering that my dress code has steadily deteriorated the closer I get to my last day. Right now my socks don't match and my shirt isn't ironed. Recently i've also taken to wearing untucked polo shirts. Luckily, nobody notices because people here are more concerned w/ gossip about the next round of layoffs. Try to get laid off. Can you say SEVERANCE!!! haha,..thought about this,..but i've never lost a job and as a matter of pride don't want to start now. Also,..i'm not even sure how i can go about getting laid off,...there are atleast a couple of people here who are low performers (or non performers) and they're outlasting everyone. Doing poor work apparently isn't conspicious enough to get laid off.
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mooze wrote: cheetarah1980 wrote: mooze wrote: Will do my best to re-start the convo Senator! Tuck ASW was great,...met some really cool people,...had a lot of fun. Just counting the days till I start school,...i'm in my cubicle right now screening nonsense emails and filing TPS reports (w/ the right cover sheets). Most of my day is generally spent brainstorming ideas for how/where to spend my summer. Of course these plans will require money,..which is the only thing stopping me from walking out the door before lunchtime. I initially planned on giving notice this week, but I'll wait another week, so I have to keep up appearances. Which is harder than it seems, considering that my dress code has steadily deteriorated the closer I get to my last day. Right now my socks don't match and my shirt isn't ironed. Recently i've also taken to wearing untucked polo shirts. Luckily, nobody notices because people here are more concerned w/ gossip about the next round of layoffs. Try to get laid off. Can you say SEVERANCE!!! haha,..thought about this,..but i've never lost a job and as a matter of pride don't want to start now. Also,..i'm not even sure how i can go about getting laid off,...there are atleast a couple of people here who are low performers (or non performers) and they're outlasting everyone. Doing poor work apparently isn't conspicious enough to get laid off. A buddy of mine did this to his advantage. His employer payed for his law school and if he were to quit on his own accord, he'd have to pay back all the tuition they fronted for him. They were going through rounds of lay-offs, and he already had another job lined up that he wanted to take. He spoke with one of the partners and encouraged him to let him off the hook before they get rid of other people. Sure enough, he was included in the next round of cuts. No hit to your pride there - if anything, he did others a favor that didn't have something to fall back on.
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faro wrote: A buddy of mine did this to his advantage. His employer payed for his law school and if he were to quit on his own accord, he'd have to pay back all the tuition they fronted for him. They were going through rounds of lay-offs, and he already had another job lined up that he wanted to take. He spoke with one of the partners and encouraged him to let him off the hook before they get rid of other people. Sure enough, he was included in the next round of cuts.
No hit to your pride there - if anything, he did others a favor that didn't have something to fall back on. Unfortunately, I work for a company in which the people familiar w/ me,..(my manager, director, and EVP), aren't calling the shots, and as far as I know they're in the dark as much as we are. Its not a transparent process at all....even EVPs and Directors are getting axed so its a tightly controlled process. Law firms are much smaller so you actually get to know equity partners who hold a lot of sway and make those decisions.
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mooze wrote: cheetarah1980 wrote: mooze wrote: Will do my best to re-start the convo Senator! Tuck ASW was great,...met some really cool people,...had a lot of fun. Just counting the days till I start school,...i'm in my cubicle right now screening nonsense emails and filing TPS reports (w/ the right cover sheets). Most of my day is generally spent brainstorming ideas for how/where to spend my summer. Of course these plans will require money,..which is the only thing stopping me from walking out the door before lunchtime. I initially planned on giving notice this week, but I'll wait another week, so I have to keep up appearances. Which is harder than it seems, considering that my dress code has steadily deteriorated the closer I get to my last day. Right now my socks don't match and my shirt isn't ironed. Recently i've also taken to wearing untucked polo shirts. Luckily, nobody notices because people here are more concerned w/ gossip about the next round of layoffs. Try to get laid off. Can you say SEVERANCE!!! haha,..thought about this,..but i've never lost a job and as a matter of pride don't want to start now. Also,..i'm not even sure how i can go about getting laid off,...there are atleast a couple of people here who are low performers (or non performers) and they're outlasting everyone. Doing poor work apparently isn't conspicious enough to get laid off. If layoffs are happening, then volunteer. Honestly a layoff is different from getting fired. Layoff just means there is no more job here for you. Fired means there's a job but we just don't want you to do it. If you were gonna leave soon anyways, the severance might pay you beyond the time you were planning to work anyways. Plus you can collect unemployment til school starts. I wish my company was doing layoffs. I'd put myself on the chopping block immediately.
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cheetarah1980 wrote: If layoffs are happening, then volunteer. Honestly a layoff is different from getting fired. Layoff just means there is no more job here for you. Fired means there's a job but we just don't want you to do it. If you were gonna leave soon anyways, the severance might pay you beyond the time you were planning to work anyways. Plus you can collect unemployment til school starts. I wish my company was doing layoffs. I'd put myself on the chopping block immediately. You're probably right,..however there is still some stigma attached to layoffs. In many industries its generally the low performers,..or "dead weight" that are laid off first. Thats probably been less true since 2008, but still.
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mooze wrote: faro wrote: A buddy of mine did this to his advantage. His employer payed for his law school and if he were to quit on his own accord, he'd have to pay back all the tuition they fronted for him. They were going through rounds of lay-offs, and he already had another job lined up that he wanted to take. He spoke with one of the partners and encouraged him to let him off the hook before they get rid of other people. Sure enough, he was included in the next round of cuts.
No hit to your pride there - if anything, he did others a favor that didn't have something to fall back on. Unfortunately, I work for a company in which the people familiar w/ me,..(my manager, director, and EVP), aren't calling the shots, and as far as I know they're in the dark as much as we are. Its not a transparent process at all....even EVPs and Directors are getting axed so its a tightly controlled process. Law firms are much smaller so you actually get to know equity partners who hold a lot of sway and make those decisions. Kelley's weekend (KEW) was so much fun and refreshing. Everything I learn about Kelley only reinforces the fact that I, personally, couldn't have chosen a better school for my goals and my fit. When I arrived at KEW, I felt like I was on life support at work. I was exhausted, overwhelmed by a project, and praying daily that I would keep my word to work until my exit date of 5/11. Then I went to KEW, and I realized that I only had 4 more weeks left, and I could finish strong. The weekend focused me not on the here and now stresses of work, but on my dreams, my future, and the roadmap that Kelley could help me chart to get there. Then I came back to work to find out that the stress-filled project was cancelled. I felt like I had been given all the holidays at one time! And finally, I only have 2 weeks and 1 day left. I can finally work on the dreaded turnover documentation.  The good news is that I only have 11 work days left! Mooze, your job sounds like mine! They've been doing layoffs and firings at all levels including Directors and EVPs as well. Unfortunately, none of us had any notice, it was just a bunch of people let go in the morning one day. By that time I had already given notice. Darn it! Could have used that severence! But I have a feeling they wouldn't have laid me off because even in the midst of the layoffs, firings, etc., I've been asked if I will reconsider my decision to leave the company. So I shared with them that I'll be getting my MBA. Most everyone is happy for me even if they wish I would stay.
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Everyone book their OP flights already? What kind of prices did you get?
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faro wrote: Everyone book their OP flights already? What kind of prices did you get? my email from the travel agency says: Quote: Air Fare:$ 443.60
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Balance Due:$ 0.00 I dont know what this "Service Charge" is all about. i could have booked the flight for $443.60 on Kayak myself so im crossing my fingers that $143 gets charged to my card on file, not $173
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I know some of us were awaiting news on Education Pioneers, which I'm happy to see is now listed on the exhibit hall map. 
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Here's an alphabetical listing of the companies attending OP2012. Might be a bit easier for some to look through vs. the exhibit hall map. Also attached an excel book of this if anyone wants to use it as the start of a personal worksheet. Booth Company 103 3M 307 Abbott 348 American Express 102 Bank of America 133 Barclays 233 Boston Scientific 227 Cargill 245 Centene 232 CFA 315 Choctaw Nation 131 Citi 337 Cognizant 248 Colgate-Palmolive 110 ConAgra 135 Credit Suisse 305 DaVita 229 Deloitte 319 Delta 333 Deutsche Bank 136 Diageo 119 Dow Chemical 116 Dr Pepper Snapple 106 Eaton 329 Ecolab 132 Education Pioneers 313 Edward Jones 139 Ely Lilly 247 Emerson 334 Exxon Mobil 327 Federal Reserve NY 303 Genentech 203 General Mills 249 HP 317 IBM 207 Johnson & Johnson 343 Kimberly-Clark 123 Kraft Foods 321 Land O Lakes 120 Liberty Mutual 127 Mattel 117 Medtronic 239 MillerCoors 338 Nestle 128 New York Life 124 NextEra Energy 242 Nissan 341 Peabody Energy 223 Pepsi 332 PhD Project 130 PNC 230 PPG 331 PricewaterhouseCoopers 339 Procter & Gamble 344 REDF 238 Reynolds 234 SC Johnson 126 Sears 325 Special Interest Group 241 Starbucks 217 SuperValu 115 Target 221 Toyota 326 US Bank 244 Wellpoint 309 Whirlpool 335 Whitewave
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I may be the only one who noticed this or perceives it to be a major drag but, OP will be during the NBA Finals... I hope the interviewers, presenters, and panelists don't mind me watching the games on my iphone, I'll try not to be too obvious.
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Qwill wrote: I may be the only one who noticed this or perceives it to be a major drag but, OP will be during the NBA Finals... I hope the interviewers, presenters, and panelists don't mind me watching the games on my iphone, I'll try not to be too obvious. Yes i agree,..not only nba finals but also the Euro2012...which is worse cause those games will be on during the daytime.
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Anyone doing either of the MBA Jumpstart events?
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@Cheetarah, will you be in Chicago for Jumpstart? I just booked my flight. cheetarah1980 wrote: Anyone doing either of the MBA Jumpstart events?
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Yalephd wrote: @Cheetarah, will you be in Chicago for Jumpstart? I just booked my flight. cheetarah1980 wrote: Anyone doing either of the MBA Jumpstart events? I won't have moved by then, but yeah I'll be in Chicago for Jumpstart. There goes my Grecian vacation for my bday.
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Anyone know the schedule/agenda for SPARC?
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