Story 280

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…

Prompted by Story 315. A pattern, once seen, cannot be unseen. ERM Tech & Data at Citi seems to operate a pattern that repeats with enough consistency to constitute policy. There was a male Director. Caucasian. Several decades of experience under his belt. Not part of the in-group. For a full year, his manager —…

It feels liberating to finally say this out loud. Earlier in my career, I co authored a thought leadership piece with a male Managing Director. I was entry level at the time, only three years out of college. At a talk we gave on the topic, which I will not name, a male colleague approached…

A few years ago, the Head of Wealth at Citi imposed a hire on the Head of the Private Bank. A white male who worked had worked for the Head of Wealth at a prior firm and was now “retired”. The “retirement” was due to inappropriate relationships with someone at a prior firm. Needless to…

I was an HRBP at Citi for just over 3 years. I had enough. Enough of the lack of leadership from a CHRO who had no business in that role whatsoever. Enough of working in a continuously “transforming” business that had no idea what, how, or when to transform anything. Enough of being gaslighted about…

Story 63 – Non-threatening ‘token’ women who will play the game = tale as old as time!!I’ve witnessed the women who flirt, don’t stand up for other women, don’t have an opinion and consistently pacify the men as they twiddles their hair and walk around looking ‘busy’ but don’t do much. They give women a…