Hi – please ensure that stories don’t carry racial undertone. Generic stories about India men are unfair and will only lead to racial tension. We can write tons of stories of white men and women, including the affairs they are having while still being in seat.
We can understand if there is specific story / incident about a particular person but what does their race has to do with it. Unless your goal is stereotyping. In that case, every ethnicity has one.
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…
Story 291: I was based on the West Coast. Before annual sales meetings in New York, colleagues in Arizona would fly to California for contrived client meetings so they could qualify to fly business class to New York under Citi’s travel policy. Abuse of the policy was widespread and openly tolerated. That is why it…
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…
Within certain circles of Wall Street—and demonstrably observable at institutions like Citigroup—the metrics for leadership and promotion have become dangerously divorced from actual business execution and merit. Instead of fostering a culture of innovation, rigorous strategy, and technical excellence, the current environment often rewards a specific brand of passive corporate compliance. The prevailing culture appears…
As a manager I saw the termination for more than 10 women in wealth business director level or above and no men were considered for the restructuring. This was not result based. When they send the JOB Restructuring package they include age but not gender as most women are being laid off.
The Fear of Accountability That Breaks ERM Tech & Data There’s a particular form of organizational dysfunction that has survived Fraser’s transformation narrative: the management practice of shuffling underperforming employees across the team, or considering them for an unearned promotion to prevent them from quitting. Why? To avoid creating an HR record reflecting poorly on…