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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
This is not a story, rather thought to ask the public for some help. Woman at top-tier bank. How do you handle smear campaigns with the objective of push you out of work?
Andrea Gacki, the director of FinCEN – the Treasury bureau responsible for combating money laundering, sanctions evasion, and financial crime – is leaving government service to become Citi’s Global Head of Sanctions. Perhaps everything about this complies with…
happy, psychologically safe team performs well. But under the leadership of a certain divisional Risk MD at Citi, constructive performance has been replaced by a strategy of elimination. An alarming dynamic has surfaced in how the employee engagement…
Excellent reporting by the New York Times on Brad Karp’s capitulation to Trump. For those who don’t recognize the name, Brad Karp was the longtime chair of Paul Weiss—Citi’s longtime outside counsel. This is the same Brad Karp…
Dear Story 374: Unfortunately there are many reasons why a lot of us can’t share details of our case. Notably because of NDAs. And we have reason to believe Citi is scouring these stories looking for reasons to…