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…
I worked at Wells Fargo for 27 years. I left much earlier than planned, because I could no longer tolerate being overworked, under-recognized, and treated as the woman who could carry everything while our only male team member was valued above everyone else, even though his contribution was laughable. I saved Wells Fargo more than…
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…
Since this forum has launched, the volume of discrimination, harassment, bullying, and retaliation complaints surfacing here speaks for itself and it is staggering. Here is the irony: Citi has built an ‘Issues, Concerns & Complaints’ escalation tool as part of its 2020 Consent Order — ostensibly to capture these incidents and route them to the…
Dear Editor, I totally understand and fully appreciate your position. Protecting the privacy and safety of this community—especially given the threat of bad actors—has to come first. The upcoming site upgrade sounds like the perfect opportunity to address this. Perhaps the upgrade could include a secure, opt-in feature where users can privately signal interest in…
To the author of Story 333: As we’ve stated before, we have been advised by legal counsel not to facilitate legal actions or provide anything resembling legal advice on this platform. That said, we are not opposed to facilitating introductions among people who are interested in the ideas you’ve outlined. We are simply trying to…
To the community, I’ve been reading the stories here for some time, and like many of you, I recognize the patterns. Most recently from Stories 331, 327 and 324, but there are many others. While our individual experiences may not strictly be the same, and each deserves to stand on its own terms, I think…
Story 329 articulated many of the observations and concerns that I, and others, have quietly carried for some time. Themes ranging from a “bank with soul” to allegations of discrimination, favoritism, and processes that appear compliant on paper but fail the spirit of fairness were striking. While many of these topics may not have previously…
Dropping a note to say Thank You to the members of this community. I was fired earlier this year, one day after filing an ethics complaint. My case is strong enough that I had no trouble finding an attorney, but I have hesitated about whether to sue because it takes such a personal toll. But…
What Citi’s transformation narrative is built to obscure You could tell this story as a mere list of process failures—bad methodology, weak leadership, an underused tool. That version is true, but it misses the point. The story is what those failures have in common: an organization that is asking how to demonstrate that remediation is…