A consulting partner with an active engagement at the firm I worked for propositioned me for an affair. He fantasized about my neck. When I asked about his wife and kids, he was undeterred and said he wanted to keep them. I was being used as an object, and apparently I was supposed to feel honored by the ‘privilege’ of sleeping with him. I felt insulted and degraded. The next day he apologized—meaning he knew exactly what he’d done.
1/2 Scott Bessent was asked in an interview this week why people don’t feel better about the economy and he replied: “They feel good in their hearts.” If a female Treasury Secretary answered like this she would be dragged all over the Internet for being an unserious idiot – it’s really the brandishing Bessent deserves…
While recruiting as a graduate student for an internship at a top-tier investment bank, a banker told during a recruiting event and in front of my peers “If you have sex with me, I will get you a job” The comment was shocking, humiliating, and entirely normalized within the setting. That experience, nearly 20 years…
I was recruited from BofA’s Private Bank to Citi in the mid-2000s as part of a full team lift-out. It turned out to be the worst career decision I ever made. I went from working for an excellent female manager with strong colleagues to a place that felt completely artificial—like living inside The Truman Show….
*This story has been edited. See below for detail. My story involves one of Wall Street’s most powerful lobbying organizations in Washington, Investment Company Institute and its CEO Eric Pan. Pan is known to act out towards his staff and really can’t handle strong women who disagree with him. Sometimes his behavior goes farther. A…
At Citi, I requested an Ethics investigation and submitted a lot of documentation in support of my claims. When the investigator called me, she did not engage with the submitted documentation. They stuck with narrative — as if they had chosen not to look at specific aspects to avoid surfacing any uncomfortable truths. The complaint…
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 filled with reminders for the day’s calls. I had built a rhythm over two decades… always prepared,…