If you haven't visited this site (WallStreetDiscriminates.com) you need to. If you've been layed off, count your blessings. If you're still there, update your resume and get out. Post to the site if you have a story to share.
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@OP I think it’s valuable that perspectives like this are being shared, even if they’re uncomfortable. You don’t have to agree, but dismissing it outright doesn’t really move the conversation forward.
Save the therapy-speak for your therapist.
This isn't a psychiatrist's couch, it's a layoff site.
If you choose to put content onto the internet where it can be viewed, judged, and commented on by the general public, EXPECT to get "mean and inappropriate" responses in addition to whichever type of "nice and supportive" ones you may hope to receive. Unmoderated boards on the 'net are not your own personal pile of comfy plushies. They are public realms, and if you can't handle a little bit of heat, then either grow a thicker skin, or air your feely-weelys to your own privately curated safe spaces.
Also, nobody cares if that site is yours or not; and yes, you did spam (be in denial about it or not), because you promoted that site on more than one company's space on this site.
Proof: https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kmk17h2x
And you're whining over there today about "mean and inappropriate responses" just as you did here today, too. LOL
Ironic that you're trying to guilt others here and shame them into silence, just because some may disagree with your spamming or spammed site's content. You insist that "victims" be heard, while trying to quell, guilt, and silence dissenting opinions. Hypocrite.
Again: Read the room. This is a layoff site.
I want to clarify that this is not my site. I came across it through another source and chose to share it here simply to raise awareness, particularly given how often this bank is referenced in the stories.
The intent was not to spam or provoke, but to ensure that those who may not be aware have visibility, and that anyone experiencing similar situations knows they are not alone.
The last thing anyone sharing their story needs is to be ridiculed. Responses like this are exactly why many people hesitate to speak up, and likely why the site does not invite open commentary.
Abusive behavior depends on silence. Awareness disrupts that. The more people who are informed, the more accountability follows, and that is why sharing matters.
If this does not resonate with you, that is fine. But dismissing others’ experiences does not invalidate them, and for some, this kind of awareness can make a real difference.
Go ahead and downrate the post if you choose, it doesn’t change the purpose behind sharing it. The reaction to content like this often says more than the content itself.
I think it is awesome!! Finally people are speaking up and anyone who doesn't agree is definitely one of the old boys...
Boring. Site is lame too.
How many more times are you going to spam your lame site here, initiating multiple threads to different banks/finance companies' spaces here?
https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kmk17h2x
Your site suks, it's basically nothing more than a collective lamers' stagnant whine-fest, and you suK even more for spamming it here on a layoff board.
Looks like ridiculous "I'm a victim because I'm a woman" website. All of the key buzzwords for DEI/ESG (whatever the f it's being called nowadays) are there:
"Unequal pay and compensation opacity
Disparities in base pay, bonuses, deferred compensation, and equity — often discovered late or indirectly.""Hostile or exclusionary work environments
Informal cultures that marginalize women through exclusion from networks, meetings, or decision-making.
***"Unequal enforcement of workplace policies
Rules applied rigidly to women while overlooked or excused for men."
Was at C for just over 3 decades - saw none of that in middle management (C15+ level). Women were coddled and often times (especially in the past decade) promoted into senior leadership roles for no other reason than to reach a "diversity" quota (which were 100% tied to senior exec comp.)
"Unequal pay" is a code word for "even though I was under qualified I was hired or promoted into a role to reach a DEI quota and I seem to make much less than those that actually KNOW what they are doing, have the decades of experience and capacity to excel"
Victim culture.
What's to share that hasn't been said here already? Multiple times? Ethics and HR exist to protect Citi and not the employee? Short of having an MD right on camera with voice doing something wrong, Citi will go all out to protect MD's because it's just too expensive to let them go? That bootlicking, knob polishers and ring kissers thrive at Citi while those with genuine talent are pushed aside of they don't have schmoozing skills? That senior officers misuse their chair and position all the time to commit various misdemeanors, including s-xual one's? That there is no low that HR and Ethics won't sink to, doesn't matter what they claim about internal pressures on them, to protect the higher up's? That Citi brought in a lawyer to investigate Andy Sieg in an 'independent' investigation as claimed by them... But the lawyer is the same lawyer defending Citi and Sieg in that lawsuit? Anyone actually thinks Citi didn't know about the conflict of interest in this?
The only thing new to me is that some naive person, may the good Lord bless her, thinks that all these stories somehow might embarrass Jane publicly... Errr.... Give me 42M a year along with a combined chair of CEO and Chairman of the Board and do your best to embarrass me... I'll laughing all the way to the bank to deposit my retirement and the future of my next few generations while you think that somehow I'm dying of embarrassment... Sorry it doesn't work that way. Ever see an ounce of embarrassment on the president's face.... Or that on any of his lackeys? That's how thick skinned you gotta be in these kinds of positions of power. We normal human beings deal with human emotions... These people don't