Within certain circles of Wall Street—and demonstrably observable at institutions like Citigroup—the metrics for leadership and promotion have become dangerously divorced from actual business execution and merit. Instead of fostering a culture of innovation, rigorous strategy, and technical…
Coercive control at work is not bad management. It is not a personality clash. It is a pattern of behavior — deliberate, directed, and purposeful. I experienced this at Citi, in USPB Risk Management — under a former…
To Story 215, Citi knows regulators don’t care because of who is in the White House. I also think its C-suite – especially Jane – gets off on the desperation and sadness in these stories; in their mind,…
Wow. In my years in this industry, I have never encountered another organization generating this volume and variety of controversy. Ouch. Reading a number of threads on this site has been jaw-dropping about Citi. The pattern is now…
The conversation about what’s broken on Wall Street is often framed as women versus men. But recently a senior male technology executive at a major financial institution told me something that disappointed me deeply — though it did…
As a longtime Citi private bank employee, who cannot believe what I’ve witnessed over the past five+ years, I’d like to share a little story: In 2020, as Jane Fraser was being named CEO, she moved quickly to…
I sympathize with others on this site. I worked in HR. Shortly after raising a gender based pay inequity complaint I was terminated for “cost cutting” reasons, and replaced by a more costly male candidate. After connecting with…
I was an HRBP at Citi for just over 3 years. I had enough. Enough of the lack of leadership from a CHRO who had no business in that role whatsoever. Enough of working in a continuously “transforming”…
Let’s discuss why the women of Citibank are so angry. In 2012, a sales guy in markets wrapped his car around a tree while driving drunk in the middle of the day with his two small kids in…
We want to address a theme that women have had to tolerate since the beginning of time: the tendency to assign blame to women for situations involving work, relationships, or professional power dynamics. WallStreetDiscriminates does not publish stories…