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Over the course or my career, I have been consistently harassed by men, undermined by leaders, passed up for promotions despite being given additional work and responsibilities. My contributions were always expected and I wasn never allowed room for mistakes whereas my male colleagues were praised for the bare minimum. My looks and demeanor were…

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…

I am a VP based in Florida with Citi. This is my first “real” job out of college. Last year, I filed an HR complaint after noticing that my annual review had been changed from neutral / positive-ish to decidedly negative, after I had acknowledged it. I was shocked. I included screen shots of before…

I am a retired EVP at Wells Fargo. In my role, I provided regular updates to Carrie Tolstedt because my team managed a product the community bank sold. It was widely understood that she was up to something nefarious, but no one acted because of the power she held, and because John Stumpf either enabled…

Politicians: Live your life in such a way that millions of people don’t celebrate your death. Executives: Live your life in such a way that you don’t need to hide the fact that you impregnated your wife while she was married to someone else.

The USCC bully is finally being called out. It is unfortunate that it took this long for this leadership behavior to receive attention. If this is the individual I believe it is, these concerns are not new—they have been a consistent theme since she joined two years ago. Her leadership style has been rooted in…