The level of chaos and misery that I am seeing in Irving is off the charts. I've been in corporate America for decades and I've never seen anything approaching this level of cruelty-- unfortunately I think that's the point.
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@k9 I'm an Indian and was working under a telugu manager in a team with 80% members are telugu (after the 2024-25 layoff,they interviewed and took only telugu people, I was in the interview panel with few candidates where I saw my telugu peer intentionally discarding good candidates and my telugu manager even after my positive review, points agrees to the telugu guy). The telugu peer I am talking are way behind in technical expertise ,analytical skill, modernisation knowledge than me but still I had to (unofficially) work under him as my telugu manager stated so. In many (almost all the occasions) I have proved my credibility, given better solutions, handled issues better but still I am here today Riff'ed and the telugu manager and telugu peer with the telugu team member are still manages to hold the positions. Being an Indian I have faced discrimination in my own team by Indian just because I am from a different state
@js show me where the Indian touched you. LOL
@b9 He's a sell out..when he sold Twitter to Musk...expect Nothing especially when it comes to chasing the stock price which equates to dollars..
@c2 Citi is too heavily Indian culturalized..if this is a word.. and many are in leadership positions and expect you to align in their traditions lunches dinners..mind you only Indian food... it is suffocating..Never in a place of business the clan-ish ..behavior
Citi is an American company supposedly.
I believe in equal opportunity and people can have clubs and groups but NOT the Entire Company or Certain areas and the stupid VOE. those who know -knows.. and the thing is I have never felt this way about any group until working in Citi.. it is not school-it is work.. leave and enjoy your personal life..
some managers of Indian origin accepted kickbacks from outsourcing vendors in exchange for hiring large numbers of H-1B workers.
For example, the Irving office was reported to have thousands of Indian employees.
@b9 Dorsey is being a little too clever. What he won't admit to is that some of his decisions have badly backfired. Like his crypto investments. But then again, which CEO has ever blamed and fired themselves?
You can use the gift points to buy yourself a gift … sad gift but better than nothing
Take a closer look at the jane/anniv email so you can go to the rewards/gifts site
Just had an anniversary too
This is how you do layoffs (if you must)
Block
said Thursday it’s laying off more than 4,000 employees, or about half of its headcount. The stock skyrocketed more than 24% in extended trading.
“Today we shared a difficult decision with our team,” Jack Dorsey, Block’s co-founder and CEO, wrote in a letter to shareholders. “We’re reducing Block by nearly half, from over 10,000 people to just under 6,000, which means that over 4,000 people are being asked to leave or entering into consultation.”
In an X post, Dorsey said he was faced with the choice of laying off staffers over several months or years “as this shift plays out,” or to “act on it now.”
“I chose the latter,” Dorsey wrote. “Repeated rounds of cuts are destructive to morale, to focus, and to the trust that customers and shareholders place in our ability to lead.”
@a8 I totally hear you. I couldn’t take anymore and when I missed a RIF in Jan I retired a year early. Would not take the BS and toxicity any more. Still have friends there who for various reasons can’t leave that I feel so bad for. If asked to do goals I would either submit the same as last year word for word or say “I hope to be RIF’d”.
Good luck to you hope you get out soon.
Neither have I. My manager has not communicated with me in over 6 weeks and our last Team meeting was in early January.
Got an email with department goals today, due in Workday by EOD tomorrow. None directly apply to what I do. Thats going to make my mid-year interesting....
Our monthly team meeting last month and this month have been canceled. I just had my 10 year anniversary and not a message from anyone (other than the generic congratulations one from Jane).
No updates in my department (Risk) in months. No communication when someone disappears (quits, RIF, fired, hired, etc.). When there is departmental meeting its all high level BS and any questions about all if this is deflected or referred to Jane's last communication.
Now I am getting assignments via email which is nothing more than picking up work from those were part of the last RIF.
Citi was not like that two years ago. There is no doubt that this is intentional to get people to quit or possibly fired.
I will not quit and have never been fired at any job. I was always rated 1 or 2 at Citi, now I'm a 3.
I just want my severance and to get out of here.
It's not just Irving. Managers are failing to give their directs basic information. They just pawn them off unprepared to business partners which creates friction.