Story 280

So many instances:– When I was very junior a senior manager told me I smelled nice. At a different point said he was looking for a lover.– Another senior manager avoided me like a plague if when I told him I was there if he needed anything. I meant related to work – and thought…

I saw the high-profile lawsuit that was filed against Citi, and the part where the woman said she was questioned about a one-sided “affair” didn’t surprise me at all. That’s straight out of the company’s HR handbook. I’ve had three female colleagues blindsided by these almost casual accusations – being told they were “coming onto”…

Employment attorney who saw the Forbes article and thought a primer on how forced arbitration works might be useful. Forced arbitration has long been one of the most effective tools corporations use to keep workplace misconduct out of public view. Employees are required to resolve disputes in private proceedings that limit discovery, restrict transparency, and…

A female employee of Hispanic background with a near-20-year tenure with Citi raised her discontent to me on the first day we met. Nothing new unfortunately – three line managers in 10 months of just one year, unclear roles and responsibilities due to endless reorganization/transformation, and stalled career… Except…she just gave birth and had suffered…

What Citi’s transformation narrative is built to obscure You could tell this story as a mere list of process failures—bad methodology, weak leadership, an underused tool. That version is true, but it misses the point. The story is what those failures have in common: an organization that is asking how to demonstrate that remediation is…

Dropping a note to say Thank You to the members of this community. I was fired earlier this year, one day after filing an ethics complaint. My case is strong enough that I had no trouble finding an attorney, but I have hesitated about whether to sue because it takes such a personal toll. But…