Every week my job drifts a little further from what I was actually hired to do. At this point I’m basically in a completely different role, and nobody’s said a word about it. No conversation, no training, no change to my title or pay. I’ve brought it up, and nothing changes. What even is this place?
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I’ve learned to see through their bs and not fall through their “prove yourself” cr-p where they try to have yourself find you more and more work through their ratings system or their development/talent bs which is another way for you to give yourself more work. I just bs them just like they bs us at every meeting.
I don't do anything except talk about when I'm gonna get my sweet payout. Hurry up Jane, you flog.
I am on the same boat as you. Less than a year in to my role and everyday in this place is miserable. Complete chaos and Morale is at the lowest. The people who somehow look like they do their jobs well are the bootlickers to MDs.
My role has changed a dozen times in 32 years. Its just the way Citi does things. Get on board or jump ship, those are your two options.
Hello, HR "Human" Resources !
Or a "manager" gallantly and nobly defending the honour (it has None) of Citi !
@be you must be the cry baby OP. lol
@dx well said!
@b4 well said!
@b9 well said!
@OP you have a job. Stop whining as many people here don’t have one. If you’re unhappy, look around and find another job. You won’t find much sympathy here. My job isn’t my dream situation but it’s a job that pays my bills while I look elsewhere. Grow up!
@b4 id--t 👎
@op, would you rather they had fired you and hired someone new to do the job that yours has morphed into?
My role completely changed 5 months into it. I was read a script and then offered the new role. My pay didn’t change. It has changed twice since then and I haven’t been here for 3 years yet. I am sure it is about to change again.
Adapt and overcome. You must be new to the corporate world and workforce (fresh out of college perhaps?) No one gets hired for a single specific thing and then stays doing that specific thing - roles expand and responsibilities grow as the mission and strategies grow.
Especially during a period where a company is downsizing/right sizing/etc.
"Do more with less" is what you're experiencing at Citi.
Unless you're a cook or dishwasher at a burger joint - you're going to do more than you hired for and eventually do something that diverges from your original role.
At Citi you are not a person. You are a resource. As people quit, get fired and laid off the rest remain to pick up the work. Like you, I was hired into a role several years ago based on an application an interview and selection. I had a team, a promotion, and it was a goal and an aspiration. Career growth - or so I thought. I was ki!!ling it. Org changes happened quickly, I lost my team, I was moved to a different manager doing a job I knew nothing about and had to train the manager taking over my old team. Made zero sense. My new management was appalling, deplorable and despite an illustrious and long career of successes I was floundering and performance dropped. I raised my concern to my manager and the answer was " at your level you are expected to perform anywhere". Basically, shut up and get back to work. That was 5 years ago. That same scenario repeated about 4 times in the past 5 years. I was so burnt out, and confused and hardly productive. Never mind the continual blender of company focus and direction. It was maddening. Thankfully, I finally got laid off. In Jane's goal of serving the stockholder, sheep continually get herded to the career ki-ling sla-ghter. So glad I was able to sacrifice my self, well being, mental health etc, for Jane's new $40 Mil salary. I am SOOOO happy to have been laid off and I am going back to school to pursue a career in an industry where I can help people and feel good about my job. I had a long run and a great career and I was at Citi a long time. The last 5 years were he!!. The absolute worst in all my career. Tainted the whole run. This company is on a crash course and some of it is intentional. You are not even a cog in the machine. You are a loose bolt somewhere that gets dropped on the floor and lost continually from fat fingers and picked up by the next person looking for a bolt that may or may not fit. Tried and dropped back on the floor. Until you find yourself being held accountable for being put in a role you are not equipped for and fired or let go because you are collateral damage to Jane's wise vision.