Story 338

To Story 337:

Good for you to build a side-hustle that will sustain you into your later years. If I had known that sexism would be as problematic as it is, I would have done the same thing. I don’t have a single girlfriend who is over 50 looking for work that gets past the first interview these days. One joked this week: “Hell, if I knew that my MBA from MIT couldn’t save me after 55, I would have done a lot of things differently.

More women need to face this reality. I don’t believe GenX women understood this would be “a thing” for our generation – very, very naive of us.

Similar Posts

  • Story 248

    To the Queen who wrote Story 246: As a lifelong “short short” essay obsessive, you nailed it. The art form asks the writer to do less so the reader can feel more. Excess is forbidden; every word carries weight, every sentence must move the idea forward or deepen it. What’s left unsaid is the point….

  • Story 208

    My daughter told me about Ardith Lindsey’s case. I am one of the Bible Study grandma’s who posted early support to this site. If it’s true that Citigroup let a male employee quit with distinction after seeing the terrible text messages he sent where her life and children’s were threatened – only for Citi to…

  • Story 199

    BNY is discriminating but not just woman. Sr mgmt has enforced a certain % of performance be marked below expectations or off track so mgmt falsified thousands of peoples 2025 eoy reviews to meet that threshold. This not only cost employees their jobs but bny didnt pay severance. And those who were marked low but…

  • Story 272

    Thank you to Story 259 for testifying that even men think Citi is a professionally bankrupt environment. The baseless arrogance in this place is staggering — particularly given how little actual capability underlies it. When MDs were pushed out in the 2023 reorganization, some called the Big Four looking for positions and couldn’t be placed…

  • Story 95

    Stories 85 and 94 are worse than anyone can imagine. The Technology group at Citi is known internally as the “Indian Mafia.” For years, it has operated like an unchecked power center where people do whatever they want, whenever they want. What business partners ask for rarely matters, and the spending is out of control….

  • Story 151

    Jane Fraser has described Citi’s consent order remediation as a punch list — the minimum remaining work to pass inspection. Her words, in public. Internally, the message filtering down through N-2 / N-3 is consistent: the firm is too fragmented to fix fundamentally. Do enough to close the consent order and move on. That’s not…