Story 199 resonated with me. I recently left BNY after many, many years. It is an extremely toxic environment, where speaking up puts a target on your back. There are certain issues you can never speak of – anything around talent retention and recruitment, or just staffing in general. If you have been in the…
Warm congratulations to the women behind this site. In addition to giving the voiceless a place to be heard, you have also succeeded at a certain bank being so paranoid about what could be posted they have a team of lawyers and compliance personnel hitting refresh ten times a day. What stories are they worried…
I am sharing this anonymously because, even now, speaking openly still feels risky. Early in my career, when I was junior and still finding my footing, I became involved with a much more senior colleague—a Managing Director in the Commercial Bank. At the time, I wasn’t even at AVP level. Looking back, the power imbalance…
The Machiavellian Operator 1. The Shadow Structure: Empire-Building as Self-Promotion Within what was formerly US Personal Banking (USPB) at Citi, the Head of Enterprise Risk and Balance Sheet Management built an internal replica of the Second Line of Defense Enterprise Risk Management team. No other business unit at Citi operates this way. Having come from…
Story 200 I see you and support you. The senior management of the Data team has been a joke for a long time. I was one of several employees who filed complaints when the former Wealth CTO was installed as our leader, forcing out an experienced data leader (who was also a decent human) who…
Citi and the Peter Principle: Cronyism over Competence 1. The “Golden Child” Relocation: Optics vs. ROI The erosion of meritocracy began with a glaring misuse of corporate resources: the relocation of a junior employee from Ireland to the US. Despite having no background in Tech, Data, or People Management, she was installed as a Director…
BNY is discriminating but not just woman. Sr mgmt has enforced a certain % of performance be marked below expectations or off track so mgmt falsified thousands of peoples 2025 eoy reviews to meet that threshold. This not only cost employees their jobs but bny didnt pay severance. And those who were marked low but…
If the investigation into [REDACTED] was really $30M, jesus christ that dude is expensive – sure hope he makes his NNIA numbers this quarter, haha.
This morning the Financial Times released a detailed story about Brad Karp, the longtime chairman of Paul Weiss, and his ties to Jeffrey Epstein — ties that had previously been downplayed by the law firm. The article states that Karp “appears to have been willing to push the boundaries of confidentiality rules to meet Epstein’s…
It feels liberating to finally say this out loud. Earlier in my career, I co authored a thought leadership piece with a male Managing Director. I was entry level at the time, only three years out of college. At a talk we gave on the topic, which I will not name, a male colleague approached…