Saw this on Instagram and thought it was a great reminder to the incredible, resilient women who have contributed to this platform about why it’s important to keep going. Happy Mother’s Day weekend to all who celebrate! “Dostoevsky was 28 when they stood him in front of a firing squad. Blindfolded. Hands tied. He could…
Re: Story 281: The Closing of Books Twenty-five years ago, Enron’s annual reports gleamed, praised by the analysts. Somewhere in Houston, a woman sat at her desk and wrote a letter that no one wanted to read — because it was inconvenient. The machine had already committed to its story. The auditors had signed. The…
Story 287, I am deeply moved and saddened by your story. It’s long past time this country has a conversation about the erosion of corporate ethics and the rise of corporate greed. There was a time when corporations saw themselves as part of the community. They built products, created careers, and invested in the towns…
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I am a 47-year-old HR professional in the tech world. In 2021 I was recruited from a startup to join Amazon as an HRBP supporting one of the largest lines of business at the company. It was a global role where I was often in EMEA and APAC, so we decided my husband would step…
I’ve been out of the country for a while and am just getting caught up. Did Jane Fraser really end up hiring a second polarizing figure as her potential successor at Citi? The Financial Times piece on [REDACTED], the head of investment banking, is a wild ride. And is it true she paid him a…
It’s incredibly disheartening to read the many awful stories about Citi’s culture. Sadly, they’re true – it’s so bad it defies description. Like many have said before: why do we stay? In a difficult job market, we need the paycheck. And Citi seems to have figured out that if it pays well enough, we convince…
I’ve read many of the stories on this platform and can relate to so much but what hits hardest are the constant microaggressions that wear you down. Being talked over in meetings, having an idea land only after a male colleague repeats it, being described as “too direct” for the same behavior that earns men…
In the early hours of one day last week, someone posted a story about the Lorna Hadjini situation. This was well before it made mainstream news. We are in touch with her attorneys in case there’s information helpful to her case. We never ran the story because it felt unauthentic. It’s also not the first…
Prompted by Story 282. A footnote on Citi’s new CFO. When Jane Fraser folded US Personal Banking (USPB) into the Wealth division—handing [REDACTED] a massively expanded empire—it left one high-ranking executive without a chair when the music stopped: the former head of USPB. In a move that looked more like a reorganization “rescue” than a…