I will proudly contribute one positive story to Citi’s broken narrative: the women who work here are incredible, besides Fraser and her despotic head of HR, [REDACTED], who is clearly not right upstairs.
The Indian women are particularly great. They work harder than anyone without credit and are beacons of what smart, humble, decent leaders do.
A female employee of Hispanic background with a near-20-year tenure with Citi raised her discontent to me on the first day we met. Nothing new unfortunately – three line managers in 10 months of just one year, unclear roles and responsibilities due to endless reorganization/transformation, and stalled career… Except…she just gave birth and had suffered…
To Story 246 / 247, and to this forum: Thank you for your extension. It added something your original response couldn’t carry alone — the self-implication, the long road, the honest accounting of what it cost you to get here. It allowed me to hear you differently, and I’m grateful you shared it. I want…
I noticed the submission describing HR pressure on managers to terminate employees in ways that avoided paying severance. I believe a major publication investigated this practice at Citi and ultimately did not run the story because of *obvious* pressure from the company, despite evidence suggesting it was widespread. Perhaps this will encourage said-publication to pick…
When the Coverup Becomes the Crime: A Cautionary Tale from KPMG Last week, the CEO of KPMG Australia resigned without notice. While he wasn’t personally implicated in wrongdoing, how he handled it when others were, precipitated his demise. KPMG partners were found to have inappropriately shared confidential client information internally. A whistleblower raised the alarm….
Seeing these stories and then reading the atrocities in the Epstein files makes you wonder why it’s so impossible for the world to #BelieveWomen.
Donald Trump’s decision to publicly praise Citigroup and Jane Fraser for an M&A ranking Citi does not actually hold is a remarkable moment in itself. Multiple financial news outlets noted that the ranking cited by Trump did not align with the major Wall Street league tables, leaving bankers and analysts scrambling to figure out what…