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Post 38
I am an experienced risk professional and senior managing director who received positive feedback from my managers, strong reviews, made progress on moving forward the risk agenda, and was respected by my colleagues and partners. I am well known in the risk industry. A global bank (not Citi) laid me off on my 65th birthday. I still feel vital, have energy, keep my skills current, and…
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Post 37
As an attorney who has spent years reviewing employment decisions across large financial institutions, I can say that all of the stories on this site feel familiar. But #31 is especially important to call out because it happens every day in corporate settings. Elevating a more junior man over a senior woman – then requiring her to report to him – is one of the quiet,…
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Story 36
I am an ethnic minority female millennial whom worked in the Citi London office for 4 years at analyst level in the 2010s. After being in my original team for 1.5 years, I was asked if I would like to move into another team in the same department which was to support a new fast growing business which I accepted. What I found out after I…
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Story 35
I’ve been in finance for 10 years. When I joined a grad scheme in the City- a male director described as ‘punchy’ was hired onto the team from another bank. For the next two years he would harass me on the trading floor – in front of colleagues, he’d ask why I was so happy and called me names like princess and use derogatory terms about…
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Story 34
I’ve been watching the site traffic here since it made the press. I’m one of many women who, I believe, was wronged by Citi’s HR department for reasons that still don’t fully make sense to me. I don’t think I’ll ever understand it. There will always be people who dismiss a site like this as a place for women to complain. But that misses the point.…
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Story 33
I posted the below-story as a comment on the efinancialcareers.com site because in my opinion the standards women are held to at Citi compared to my former firm were so beyond pale it belies comprehension. Frankly, the stories are so crazy that most people wouldn’t believe them if they heard them. When I was at Citi we hired a senior MD away from Well Fargo. It…
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Editors Note
It’s no surprise this site has started getting traffic from bad actors since it started getting press coverage. Misogyny has stalked strong women since the dawn of time. History shows that resistance grows the loudest just before real change begins, which is why we won’t be deterred. We anticipated this. And, importantly, we planned for it. The most critical way we planned is by not requiring…
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Story 32
Lengthy but worth the read, I promise. Though I resigned over a year ago, I still find myself crippled with anxiety and fear of further retaliation—here goes. Despite my having been on a short-term disability (STD) leave of absence, protected by FMLA due to the horrific and unlawful experiences I endured at the hands of my superior male counterparts, Citigroup has zero excuse for its utter…
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Story 31
I was a Managing Director at Citi and when a significant promotion was available, it was given to a male who was a Director, a more junior title at Citi than Managing Director. By Citi’s own standards, I was senior to this male. I had to report to the male, who had less seniority and experience than me. It is incomprehensible that a well-run organization could…
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Story 30
Was doing analyst recruitment for my team at Citi Investment Banking. Interviewed a lot of people and concluded that two young women would be a great addition to the team – they were much stronger and eager than anyone else I interviewed. When group head learnt about it, he called me to his office and said “how are we supposed to build a trusted franchise here…