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 documented not only my own experience but a pattern of elimination targeting specific employees. People who challenged leadership. People who could not be controlled or would not be silenced. Older employees, females, from a different national origin than the group’s leader.
Those individuals were not interviewed as part of a pattern investigation. Their experiences were not treated as corroborating evidence of a coordinated practice.
This is how pattern discrimination survives internal investigation. By atomizing connected events into individual cases, each one can be assessed in isolation and found inconclusive.