Public Service Announcement – The Severance Trap: What Wall Street Hopes You Don’t Know Severance agreements aren’t neutral documents. They’re surrender agreements drafted by armies of corporate lawyers to strip you of your voice and legal rights. My…
112: your story resonated deeply. What you’ve documented at Wells Fargo isn’t isolated—I witnessed the same repeating pattern at Citi in Tech & Data. A C15 role came open. There was a highly qualified female candidate with a…
The Morning It All Changed… Falsely Accused The morning of my termination began like countless others. Checking on my mom, feeding the dogs and letting them out, and the aroma of coffee in my house, and a notepad…
Hello, in the story pertaining to the “Indian Mafia” in Technology at Citi, I can absolutely confirm this is true. I myself am Indian and the way the men currently treat women at Citi should be fully investigated.…
Hi – please ensure that stories don’t carry racial undertone. Generic stories about India men are unfair and will only lead to racial tension. We can write tons of stories of white men and women, including the affairs…
Another Asia story : Whilst we perceive Asia to be conservative, it is far worse than the West. Regressive men, patriarchal mindset – it reeks. Men retort to nastiness and passive aggression to put women down. I am…
I worked at Goldman Sachs for many years. During that time, my team was led by a senior white male manager for whom caregiving responsibilities were invisible. Advancement and favor were routinely afforded to those who could remain…
Concerns aren’t incomprehensible; they are inconvenient. During ERM town-halls at Citi, employees started submitting anonymous comments about retaliation by managers who kept being promoted. The comments got uncomfortable. Eventually, anonymous questions were no longer allowed. Leadership said they…
Decades ago, the president of a business unit abroad asked me – in front of male and female colleagues – if my pubic hair matched the color of the hair on my head. Senior male colleagues were visibly…
My path to a leading investment bank (“The Bull”) began because a former co-worker at the small financial services firm where I worked attempted to rape me in my own home. I woke to find this 6’4” man…