Story 34

I’ve read most of the stories about Citi and none summarize what a daily grind this place is quite like 144. Every day feels less like work and more like navigating a maze that rearranges itself while you’re inside it. Priorities shift without explanation, decisions are revisited endlessly, and clarity is treated as optional. It’s…

I exited my role in Citi’s private wealth management due to a fundamental misalignment with leadership practices, organizational values, and the absence of meaningful opportunities for advancement. Despite receiving consistently top performance evaluations over multiple years, advancement opportunities were repeatedly denied (with a new made up reason every year) and instead given to men who…

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…

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.

I can’t tell you how much this website means to me. Growing up, my sister and I lived in the shadow of our stepfather—a man who used religion as a weapon for his own cruelty. He was an authoritarian in every sense, constantly searching for any reason to punish us. It always felt like he…

To Story 231, I am a retired advisor from Merrill, and feel terribly for your friend. As a woman who made her career in the 1980s, I know all too well the culture you’re describing. I looked at the LinkedIn post you reference, as I’m familiar with many of the players. I knew what to…