My daughter forwarded me the article about this site from efinancialcareers.com. I just wanted to drop a note providing my support for what these courageous women are doing. She has spoken for years about the double standard of professional conduct that women are held to, but it sounds like Citi’s HR department doesn’t even try to hide their bias. Brava, ladies! You have truth on your side. Keep going.
Word is getting out that Citi’s HR department is firing more and more employees for cause rather than doing a layoff – this way they don’t have to pay severance and it’s a legal way for them to keep (er, steal) someone’s unvested stock options. It’s about greed. I’ve heard of four women in two…
The examples shared are not surprising. My experience in Citi is similar. HR is weaponized to squash anyone speaking up. They train us to speak up, contact Ethics or HR and when you do everything is used against you. Before going to HR, I talked to a lawyer and was very prepared for what HR…
To continue on #71, this feels all too familiar. The internal process at Citi when someone submits an anonymous complaint is to escalate it to the group head. This is literally how the process is organized. Step one for HR is to contact the head of the group from which complaint came, make them aware…
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…
I wrote [Post 152] and want to clarify that I am not sharing the details of my story because I don’t want the people who broke me to get satisfaction in knowing they won.
Public Service Announcement – The Severance Trap: What Wall Street Hopes You Don’t Know Severance agreements aren’t neutral documents. They’re surrender agreements drafted by armies of corporate lawyers to strip you of your voice and legal rights. My advice to anyone facing termination: * Do not sign anything immediately. You’re in shock and financially vulnerable—that’s…