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Hi All,

As the title states, I received an initial denial from MetLife regarding my STD claim despite having therapeutic evidence, guidance and notes, from my therapist. It seems like I'll need to appeal and get more granular with the details of what's going on and how it absolutely stops me from being able to perform basic life / work activities.

I'm honestly really not doing well. It's been a stressful time away and then to hear this when I've literally been crying on the floor wanting to **** myself while thinking about going on STD previously. Does anyone have any insights / thoughts if you've been denied once before too. I really appreciate anyone's insight on this as I'm just devastated and tired/exhausted by things not going right.

I took my test tonight.

I tested my computer 3 times today before I went into the exam. When I went into the exam all the sudden my system was showing with a "vpn" issue. Despite not having this just an hour before.

I get off my internet and use my phones hotspot and I'm able to connect without issue and get into my exam.

I'm halfway through my second section when I get a proctor message about connectivity and them being able to see me and they sent me to a timeout room where I was in a queue waiting for my test to relaunch. No internet issues on my end. Never even lost connection or buffered. Relaunched exam from the waiting room I was in and restarted at the same question I was paused at without issue.

Then around question 117 I get another message and get sent out the waiting room again due to the proctor and some connectivity issue message they sent me. Again, the recording kept going on my screen and I had no interruption in service.

I relaunched at question 117 about 5 minutes later and I finish the section and went into my break. Took 5 minutes, came back and started section 3. I get 5 question in and another proctor messages me that they couldn't resolve connectivity and that they were closing the exam and gave me some kind of case number (it all happened so fast and I was looking at my recording and concerned how this was happening when I was not having any connectivity issues.)

I'm beyond sad. I'm furious. I know people will say that it's my fault for waiting until today and that fine. I'll take that criticism. But I also did everything I needed to be successful and Pearson failed me.

I checked my score - despite Pearson saying my case is with their review and response team and I failed - obviously without answering 56 questions.

People Domain was AT
Process was NI - Fully believe I was trending borderline T/AT
Bus Env - NI, but not even sure if I got any of those questions up to that point.

I'm waiting to hear back from PMI and Pearson but at the same time I doubt they'll let me retake this exam or maybe even my third section and I'll likely only get a redo with the new exam. Which, in my opinion as someone who works in professional services, that's really poor customer service.

I hope I get it resolved. I'm moving into a new space with my gf and her son and life is taking on some new responsibilities... and I was hoping I could get this and use the past couple of hard years to earn a few more bucks and maybe put a little more of a barrier between me and anxiety. I'm really happy for those of you that passed in the last couple of days and hopefully I'll be there with you shortly.

I’m honestly at a loss right now and wanted to see if anyone else has experienced this.
I was taking my PMP exam online today. Everything was going fine until my proctor interrupted the exam because they were having connectivity issues. They paused my exam and relaunched it. I resumed exactly where I had left off.

A while later, it happened again. The proctor paused the exam a second time, and after another delay told me they were still having technical issues. Instead of letting me continue, they closed my exam entirely.

To be clear:
I wasn’t disconnected.
I wasn’t using a VPN.
There were no issues on my end that I was aware of.
The interruptions were initiated by the proctor because of their connectivity problems.

The worst part is that I was already in the third section of the exam when they terminated it.

I’m especially stressed because I’ve invested a significant amount of time and money preparing for this exam, and now I’m worried I won’t be able to complete it because of something completely outside my control.
I’ve already contacted both PMI and Pearson VUE, but I’m wondering:

Has anyone had an exam terminated due to Pearson’s technical issues?
How long did it take for PMI/Pearson to resolve it?
Were you allowed to resume the same exam, or did you have to start over?
Did they give you another exam attempt?
I’d really appreciate hearing from anyone who’s gone through something similar.

Hey All,

As the title says, I'm taking the PMP tomorrow and I've done 550+ practice questions and both practice exams. Averaged 76% on both. But then I took two mini quizzes and 50/63 and I'm kind of freaking out.

My test isn't until tomorrow night so I'm going to watch the mindset video and just go over my process and question progression mindset. But I was hoping for any encouraging words and advice for the last night.

I appreciate everyone's candidness in this thread as this test means a lot to many people and I really just hope the questions don't destroy me tomorrow.

Been at the firm a little over two years and I'm kind of relishing this little reprieve (current utilization is 97%). Can the community give me the best tips and tricks for being the bench? Which codes to use when? What I can work on / learn that counts toward effective hours? TIA!!

I want to start out by saying that I know I have professional areas of growth like everyone and mine is handling stress better.

At the same time. I don't want to take responsibility for stress that is contrived, performative, or brought on by the desire for a bigger bottom line.

My believe is that Deloitte would rather burn people out and squeeze the bottom line than reduce the workload on employees.

I started on a commercial project as a GPS consultant 14 months ago. I take a lot of pride in my work and take a lot of ownership over my work.

I essentially ran three applications, two of very high complexity through a complete development lifecycle and transition to the client.

After the initial month, there was very little support and getting questions answered or raising concerns and getting them addressed simply didn't happen. I took on the responsibility to create 'clif notes' for my two main developers so they'd understand the application more quickly. My original senior developer quit after 3 weeks and I was conducting all discovery sessions without my Dev.

I picked up developers and dropped developers throughout the project. At any point in time I could be managing 4 people for the day and have 3 more added at different times and told to find work for them - which I was happy to do but it wasn't easy and it took a lot of rerouting and changing on the fly to make these things work constantly.

I had to take mental health days, slept at least 13 hours a night for multiple nights each month, and cracked my tooth from grinding my teeth.

Everyday was an expectation without any real substantive help towards issues I was asking for help on. Or it was another idea to do something that added more work or stress to my plate.

I worked through burnt out developers that wouldn't communicate, test, or follow up with me for the next issue. Raised this concern to my leadership multiple times only for that one person to be on the project 4 months later doing the same thing.

On top of all this, I have expressed and repeatedly expressed AND took the responsibility of proactively setting up methods and options to help mitigate any issues related to my diagnosis of ADHD.

I thought leadership was by example and putting in the hours to meet the deadlines (I worked over 50 hours every week of this project and have only been allowed to bill 8 daily). Being there for the client, delegating, congratulating our team, providing support, asking my teammates id they're ok when they sound like they're not, offering to listen and work through issues, and standing up and taking responsibility for something when it was on my team.

I thought great client service was the client telling you that they'd work with you again in a heart beat. Being given the toughest client and turning them around and building a strong relationship. Being told that your stakeholders were going to tell your SM no that they couldn't roll you off despite the project ending.

Again, we go back to the stress. Where I had to leave a meeting with my manager and SM and restart my computer because nothing was working and I was so stressed from a rushed user acceptance testing. Only to get back on and barely able to breathe because I was sobbing and depleted. My manger that came on the project late that they had been relying on me for too much of the workload.

Ive always been professional to the client and although I have vented to my teammates it's never been about them it's been about the project -maybe it's my mistake and I think work friends a real thing when they're not an that's my issue.

To make a much longer story than I've been able to describe here, short, I tried really hard and I succeeded on my project and I built these relationships. But despite all this I received two Below on my year end review and a M for client.

It's hard to put all these pieces together in my head of what happened considering all my snapshots are on the higher end of strongly agree and very strongly agree.

Either way I think the writing is on the wall and makes me sad. I had so much hope and promise for what I could achieve and become and it feels like I wasn't going to get there no matter what here.