Hi, Does the layoff announcements include your director and HR? Or is it your director alone?
Terminations thread for Risk . . .
Anyone know of any MDs or DIRs who were axed in Risk?
Plenty of people got raises, bonuses and promotion news today. Some were also terminated. This is what we chose working in financial services.
Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose.
Can anyone explain how it a conversation goes regarding bonuses and/or other compensation changes today?
The title says it all. What is to be discussed?
How can people think about bonuses right now?
All I can think about is whether I'll still have my job once the layoffs are done. I couldn't care less about bonuses or raises right now. I'm not saying it's irrelevant, it's just not something I can focus on when I don't even know if I'll have a... — read more
How to get Re-hired for another Internal opportunity after Layoff?
How do we check for Citi Internal opportunities after Layoff for a re-hire ?
Better stay at Citi while you can and build your skill set
Think long and hard about your careers. Especially anyone in a BAU function (non revenue-generators). AI is going to put most of us out of a job, in the not too distant future. Investors, companies, business owners......they all want the next best... — read more
What was written vs what was implied vs what was said vs what was reported vs what was emailed etc…
The end result is the same, you can’t trust anything said from upper management when it comes to layoff numbers and timelines. Its a game and they are laughing at you right now trying to figure out what is happening and when and to how many and to... — read more
https://www.efinancialcareers.com/news/citigroup-s-20-000-job-cuts-are-not-what-you-think
15k of the 20k cuts to come over next 2 years. Only 5k to be cut now (~2000 already happened with 3k to go in the next few weeks).
Checklist for Layoff
Get your medications for next 3-5 months If you use eye glasses, get a new pair of glasses with your insurance Get a good mortgage if you can try with Citi Get details about Citi 401K Get your W2's and Download your payslips from date... — read more
This company is run by Fools
This company is run by fools who don't know Business and Technology. Letting go people will just save some money. But its not going to fix everything. What is missing here ? Real Technical Architect Real Business Strategist
Finally some specific literature/numbers.. Tired of hearing vague bs from leadership
The 5,000 "mainly managerial" job cuts are happening fast. Fraser said Citi's 12,000 managers have already been reduced to 10,800 as four layers were removed in three phases that began late last year. Cutting the fifth and final layer could seemingly... — read more
Welcome to Retail 🏦 Banking - Your Fired
About as exciting as working for Walmart. The two companies r not that different, both r lousy.
Priceless LMAO
Citigroup was the only one of the large banks to report a fourth-quarter loss, of $1.9 billion compared with profits of $2.5 billion in the 2022 period. Revenues fell three percent to $17.4 billion. The results were weighed down by costs including... — read more
Does this affect Cards/retail call centers working remotely?
Currently employed in a specialized dept taking calls. I work from home. I don't see much on this board about the call center, but more so the actual bank. Anyone on the phones let go?
Giving up on expertise
You know what p–s me off the most? We are disposable. Fine. We are usually the first budget line to go when there are cost cuts or reorg. Fine. But then nobody should expect us to bring expertise to a job. I haven’t had a feeling that I had learned... — read more
Any thoughts on this week?
Will it start?
Citi no compete clause.
So Citi has a no compete clause to where you can’t work for vendor’s that Citi partners with for 1 year after being let go. The main problem with this is that Citi partners with everyone. Microsoft, Dell, vmware, Cisco, Veritas, Crowdstrike... — read more
No, you are not safe
No matter what your role is or which level you are, at Citi, you are disposable or replaceable for whatever reason at any time. If you have somehow managed to convince yourself you're safe, think again. I'm not saying this to be mean, I just don't... — read more
Have you started job hunting? Please share your experience.
How long have you been looking? Let's help each other to move on.
Save your pennies people
Make sure you can pay for at least 6 months worth of mortgage/rent payments and other monthly bills to bridge any gap you may have in employment. Its going to be harder now to get another job than in the last several years, so make sure you can wait... — read more
Do I have the right?
My department is being revoked and merged into another. I have been offered a new role , do I have the right to accept or refuse the new position they offer me? If I don't accept it, will I get severance?
Fire Mark Mason
) As an insider, he sells his stock well below TBV and way above today's share price. Then, he states that he backs Jane's reoranization plan. ) Mason had no clue on Citi losses in Russia. Citi was then placed in the penalty box on its Living... — read more
Jane is done.
She is being used to force this change and then she will graciously retire with the achievements of being the first female CEO, pushing DEI up everybody’s ar-e and executing the biggest transformation in the past 20 years. The next person will have... — read more
All this focus on Jane...
What about the revenue generating teams? Get off your high horses and make the bank some money! Citi is here to generate revenue for shareholders. The buck falls with these teams. Guess all these "elite" Universities we target aren't delivering the... — read more
Offshoring
Hopefully Citi (and other western corporations) will finally realize that hiring 10 low-qualified people to do the job of 2-3 highly-skilled people in EMEA/NA is not the way forward. With salaries growing in India/China/etc. this finally become a... — read more
Citi does not have the money to layoff many at once
The main reason for laying off only 5k people in q1 is the money! We cannot afford to spend $1.2 billion more to layoff 15k+ more people. It had costed $85k per head, on an average, to layoff 7k people in 2023. So, Citi has changed the game plan... — read more
Q1 2024 or 2026?
Fraser repeatedly said this will all be complete by Q1 2024, but now all of a sudden, it's through 2026. Anyone surprised?
When will we finally know?
When will we finally find out exactly what is going to happen and when? The wait is becoming unbearable.
l am very happy at citi
Been here 5 years, find it much better than where I was (another bank not be named). Culture is so much better here. Maybe I'm lucky and in a good spot, but I am very excited about the future. There will always be folks who aren't happy with their... — read more
Tech layoffs to happen in non-strategic locations?
My boss told our team that he expects the bulk of tech layoffs to happen in non-strategic cost centers like Singapore, Dublin and China etc. He thinks that people will be safer in certain designated hubs. He attends in a lot of the TTS Tech... — read more
Sharpen an Axe to cut the Tree
The employees are not skilled enough and the company hasn't put any effort to build up both Business and Technical skills. Doing politics and relying on consultants or contractors won't help much. Real talented employees are not respected and are... — read more
Putting in long hours to keep from getting fired. How’s that working out for you?
Part of the fault lay with adopting to Citi’s work culture. The work culture is to put in extra extra hours. This is a drive to do more with less. It gives the impression that we’ve got enough people. If going forward every employee ONLY worked 8... — read more
Quality of people...
It is obvious - people at Citi are just not as smart as the people in other places like Goldman or JPM - simple as that. Mark Mason is a graduate of the world-renowned... wait for it ... Howard University :D:D:D I can see that in my colleagues - 95%+... — read more
Show as much loyalty to the company as the company does for you.
Take a lesson from Citi and follow Citi’s lead. Give Citi the same amount of loyalty as they give you. Show as much competency in your job as Jane does hers. Show as much expertise in your role as the CFO does in their role. Care enough about... — read more
CFO dodging
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Muw0tWlvdYw It’s frustrating to listen to such interviews. The lady asked a straight forward question - where are you going to extract the most resources from and he is… you listen to it..
Wake-up call.
For some people the current cuts will serve as a wake-up call. Due to the easy money that was printed in the past 15+y, many people had a pretty good ride without putting either the work or having the education needed. People like project managers... — read more