Citi’s HR tactics are so inhumane I considered taking my own life. It’s been almost six years and I will never be the same. It’s hard to describe and impossible to understand if you haven’t lived its unique horror. I don’t know how the board lets this go on. It’s a disgrace.
There is a specific kind of institutional dysfunction that promotes people because of their failures. The former Head of Risk Product Management — one whose work sat at the heart of consent order remediation — never defined clear roles for his team. Rather than providing vision and direction, he asked the people beneath him to…
[REDACTED] has been Citi’s Chief Human Resources Officer since July 2018. That title implies professional authority over the function. Think again. [REDACTED] is not an HR executive who came up through the discipline. She is a Jane Fraser loyalist who was handed the department. Their relationship goes back to 2007, when [REDACTED] worked directly under…
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…
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…
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’ve been at Citi Private Bank for nearly 13 years, and have seen my share of chaos. But since 2021, the dysfunction is unlike anything I’ve ever witnessed. Leadership talks endlessly about “transformation,” but the reality inside is far worse than what’s acknowledged publicly. Citi has a long history of elevating the wrong leaders. A…