I have been beyond astonished and dismayed by the stories I have read here and I’m also so glad that so many people have a place to speak up and be heard! It is nice not to feel so alone and clearly something needs to change! If sharing on this forum facilitates that then bravo! Keep sharing your truth, keep showing up and don’t lose hope that this is a tide that can be turned!
After 20+ years at Citi, I was subjected to an HR investigation earlier this year and terminated without severance for a petty offense. In my view, this is a well-established tactic used by the company to avoid its financial obligations to long-serving employees. After hiring an attorney to review my case, I was told that…
In 2024, while working as an MD at Citi, I was subjected to the most biased, frankly shocking, HR investigation of my 25 year career. What at first appeared to be a routine inquiry quickly turned into a hit job shaped less by facts and more by assumptions, insinuations, and gendered interpretation of behavior. The…
To whomever submitted the story at 12:35PM ET, we have reason to believe you are not acting in good faith – we have suspected this for a while – and will no longer post your submissions. Please take your energy elsewhere. This is a space for people who are telling the truth and interested in…
Dear Story 335, I, too, am a regular reader. It seems likely, from the breadth of stories, that Citi’s independent risk functions may be compromised. Similar concerns have been raised in the past about other institutions. For example, regulators found that a lack of independence of control functions contributed to the issues at Wells Fargo…
I’m one of several women at a Citi location in the U.S. who experienced sustained harassment from a senior leader who was repeatedly given a pass despite repeated HR violations. I’m not naming the location out of concern about retaliation but if I did, the ER personnel would know exactly what I mean. One told…
New here. Former Citi employee who felt like I was in the Twilight Zone every single day, not just because of the toxicity. But the bizarre dynamic that MDs bark at “the little people” all day to do *their* work, while *they* mingle, attend *important* meetings, lunch – and after lunch blame said-little-people that he/she…