Story 391
When I joined Citi, I was promised that my role would be reevaluated in short order. The MD would support my advancement to director, even create a new role for me. What I later discovered, however, was that…
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Story 390
Sharing a Glassdoor review I came upon because it perfectly captures my experience at this nasty place. Apologies I can’t just share a screenshot. Not sure how to do here. “I left my last company thinking it was…
Story 389
My manager at Citi (I am in technology) regularly leaves the women who report to him off emails and other critical communications. Information gets shared only with the men on his team. When it has been brought to…
Story 388
Displaced from Citi’s HR organization in July. Having joined the company several years ago, I don’t remember the separation process involving nearly this much paperwork—or so many provisions requiring employees to waive our right to sue in exchange…
Story 387
The “Old Citi Way” Promotion Walking around shouting that other people want her job—when she never had the shoes to fill it in the first place—is quite the look. Everyone in ERM Tech & Data performance reviews eventually…
Story 386
I spent almost twenty years at one of the largest banks in the world. By any objective measure, I had a successful career. I was Ivy League undergrad, had my MBA, and spent my career leading digital product…
Story 385
Dear Story 381 – Story 384 offers sage advice. Something not everyone understands is the degree to which these places expect you to be playing a different, weaker game because you are decent and they are not. They…
Story 384
Dear Story 381, fire back! Document every instance (time, place, names), be vocal about your narrative (don’t respond to personal attacks, only discuss the merits of the work, highlight what direction was given to you). This type of…
Story 383
Dear Story 381: I was infamously targeted by Citi in a smear campaign. It was vicious. They didn’t even try to hide the fact that they were framing me in order to fire me. And, then, in mediation…
Story 382
Opinion piece worth reading about how eager Jane Fraser is to criticize politics in the UK while remaining unwilling to utter a negative word about her friend Donald Trump. It’s one of many instances where Fraser appears to…