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Story 98
I was pregnant and was the only person to have ever been pregnant at the dba that I worked at under Northwestern Mutual. I was told that there was no maternity leave policy and while helping my boss with something on his computer I found a folder with all of the dates of my doctors appointments and absences due to being sick. I had 5 in…
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Story 97
I worked for a small firm that was bought last year by a large bank. During the transition period, I was informed that my title and responsibilities would be “changing.” I was then demoted from an Associate back to an Analyst and told this was a policy that was “standard” and “would apply across the board.” A few weeks later, I found out that the two…
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Story 96
At another Tier 1 bank (not Citi), when interviewing for associate/analyst jobs, several of the female candidates received invites to one-on-one drinks with a male MD. He sent the invites directly and individually, typically a few weeks after the formal/firm on-site rounds. Because of a few of us (fortunately) compared notes, the pattern was clear. One in this group of acquaintances, deciding she wanted to gather…
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Story 95
Stories 85 and 94 are worse than anyone can imagine. The Technology group at Citi is known internally as the “Indian Mafia.” For years, it has operated like an unchecked power center where people do whatever they want, whenever they want. What business partners ask for rarely matters, and the spending is out of control. There is no meaningful second-line oversight on anything the organization is…
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Story 94
I am shaking as I write this. I have spent a long time suppressing what I have experienced, largely out of fear. Fear of retaliation, fear of attaching my name to something that could have consequences for my career. I am a current employee based in Florida and have worked on the Technology side of Citi for approximately four years. What I have witnessed during this…
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Story 93
In my 20s, while working on a sales team at Morgan Stanley, I experienced repeated sexual harassment that became normalized. A well-known external wholesaler made unwanted advances toward me for months. At a firm-hosted event, he forcefully pulled me into a room, kissed and touched me until I pushed him off and left. The next day at work, he slapped my ass—an act witnessed by my…
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Story 92
My female relative worked at Citi as a managing director. When she was hired, she was filled with excitement and eagerness to make an impactful improvement within her division. When accepting the job offer at Citi, her hope was the culture would be making at least an effort to shift away from the “good old boys” mentality that plagues countless corporate offices. In less than a…
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Editor’s Note
We are beginning to receive multiple story submissions from a single person at one time, which is absolutely fine. We get it: There’s a lot to say! There is a lot of scrutiny on this site – specifically, people are watching to see if submissions are organic. How we know, is that a powerful PR agent planted one in the hopes we would manipulate it so…
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Story 91
Story #84 – I resonate with your story so deeply. I’m truly sorry you’re still enduring this nightmare. You’re not alone in it, even if it feels that way every day. This is the painful flip side we don’t talk about enough: when women in power mimic the worst traits of the boys’ club—ego, bullying, refusal to support others—to cling to their status. It doesn’t make…
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Story 90
The “boys’ club” culture at Citi isn’t just alive—it’s thriving, and it’s suffocating talented women every day. But here’s the harder truth many of us whisper in private: some of the most painful enablers aren’t the men at the top. They’re the senior women who climbed the ladder, got a seat at the table… and then pulled the ladder up behind them. I’ve watched too many…