Story 8

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 from a serious health issue. Yet still, the management in Citi Wealth took her job away and stuck her under a peer with no clear career path or scope. My line manager put her (instead of a white male as I intended) on the redundancy list even though my line manager never met her.

The HR malpractice is shocking at an alarming scale. Typically a maternity returner should keep her job or be given a comparable role. Her leave should not be the reason of her subpar performance review or redundancy. HR record should reflect that. Shame on Citi Wealth management and HR to take advantage of people’s life events and kill their careers. With an employer like this, who needs enemies?!

-NBD

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