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Story 195
I spent a while at my first job out of school supporting a toxic MD. A few examples: And countless others. The stories here let me know I’m not crazy and I’m not alone. They really gaslight you into thinking it’s just you and you’re being dramatic.
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Story 194
Whiplash, or the Great Undo Pre-2023, USPB and Wealth sat together under a single “Global Consumer Banking” umbrella—large, slow, and buried under layers of management. In September 2023, Jane Fraser flattened the bank into five silos (Services, Markets, Banking, Wealth, USPB), each led by its own CEO reporting directly to her to drive accountability and speed. Two years later, Citi announced a re-merger: the Retail Bank…
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Story 193
My annual performance review in December (and every year prior): “She is integral to our team.” My mid-year review, just after discovering and reporting a fiduciary breakdown: “She does everything wrong and needs significant improvement by year-end.” There needs to be fundamental changes in HR practices, and senior managers who behave this badly should be held accountable. I’m glad to hear this is being discussed within…
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Story 192
what Wall Street calls ‘collusion’ when women do it is simply called golf when men do.
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Story 191
I am a retired EVP at Wells Fargo. In my role, I provided regular updates to Carrie Tolstedt because my team managed a product the community bank sold. It was widely understood that she was up to something nefarious, but no one acted because of the power she held, and because John Stumpf either enabled her, looked the other way, or both. They were partners in…
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Story 190
Like most here, I am no stranger to working for inappropriate managers, and I wouldn’t normally waste time with HR. But after enduring nearly a year of well-documented and bizarre retaliation following the reporting of a sensitive client risk issue at another global wealth management firm, I am still a deer in headlights from the weaponized HR process that followed. I am saddened by the stories…
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Story 189
This is my third experience I am posting. As I begin to awaken the stories that have lived silently inside my body. In a previous role, I was an SVP at Citi, reporting to a Managing Director. As part of a reorganization, I was placed on a team led by another male MD, who reported to a senior MD I had worked with for years. Our…
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Story 188
I am grateful for this platform. But reading these stories, I have to ask, do people truly understand what this does to us? It is not just a moment. It is a ripple effect that follows us for years. Gaps in our résumés that are not gaps at all, but proof of endurance, survival, and the strength it takes to keep going.Silence we carry because speaking…
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Story 187
I will admit to checking this site twice a day — it has become part of my routine. I’ve contributed two stories myself. As a woman in my 50s, often feeling exhausted and demoralized by the state of the world, I find it genuinely refreshing to come here and see that my experiences are not in isolation. The number of stories that resonate with me can,…
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Editorial Comment
We declined to post several submissions yesterday that were nothing but personal attacks and/or contained threatening language against a particular institution. We don’t know if it was a setup but, either way, it is not consistent with the purpose of this platform. WallStreetDiscriminates exists to surface real experiences and identify patterns that would otherwise remain hidden. It is intended to inform, not inflame — and to…