Hi – please ensure that stories don’t carry racial undertone. Generic stories about India men are unfair and will only lead to racial tension. We can write tons of stories of white men and women, including the affairs they are having while still being in seat.
We can understand if there is specific story / incident about a particular person but what does their race has to do with it. Unless your goal is stereotyping. In that case, every ethnicity has one.
2/2 This is the second story I am submitting. The first one related to a senior executive at Citi who told his assistant to tell me his budget was not approved after I would not perform a sexual act, while he propositioned me as we were working on a board deck. He still holds an…
I am a woman working in management consulting and previously worked in front office at CIBC. An MD and ED on our team pressured juniors to accompany them to strip clubs. I felt uncomfortable and shared my thoughts with peers but it fell on deaf ears. It was widely perceived that those who complied received…
It’s sad to say but all common pattern you listed here are so true and happened to me in a major financial institution: 1) not equal base pay with men 2) pay reduction by 40% during maternity leave year while being on leave only for 4 months 3) HR system is weaponised, I saw as…
I was nominated for MD at a tier one bank having the best production year of my career. I had been paid up in a down year and my review had given me the green light for additional headcount on my team. When I shared I was pregnant less than 4 weeks later, I came…
2/2 Palantir published a wildly unhinged manifesto today, which asserts software companies should help run national defense — and that society should reorganize itself around that idea, including bringing back the draft. Let that sink in — a software company sending your kid to war. Alex Karp is childless. I am not. He’s going to…
112: your story resonated deeply. What you’ve documented at Wells Fargo isn’t isolated—I witnessed the same repeating pattern at Citi in Tech & Data. A C15 role came open. There was a highly qualified female candidate with a proven track record. Instead, an Indian male had been pre-appointed. When the hiring MD was confronted privately,…