What do you do when you're silenced and have no opinion or voice? You become a worker bee. your creativity isn't welcomed. you can't leave yet because you have family. you try to find a job, but its hard. what do you do?
0m ago by Anonymous
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Advocate for yourself and get out. Have a plan. Start applying for new jobs and get out of that dumpster fire.
Citi no longer has leaders, they have managers and those are mostly not equipped to make effective decisions. It takes dozens of MDs to sit in a room and make the most absurd directional choices that defy logic. All the while, in light of pending layoffs everyone is in CYA mode and micro management. No one is empowered to do any real work. Fear is Citi's top motivator. This has a snowballing effect on morale and production. Good leadership is what Citi is missing, from the top down and at every level. Citi has chased away all it's good leadership and now we're stuck in the mud with the only recourse to keep stockholders happy, it cuts costs to inflate stock price. It's a short term strategy. But if you can't operate with a good direction, serving and maintaining customers and compete on a product level, there is no way Citi can stay near the top long term. This hail Mary layoff for a stock price bump has give Citi and it's employees a bad reputation that is going to have consequences down the line. I think Jane's days are numbered and she knows it and with nothing to lose, well, here we are.
Keep looking for a job outside Citi
Spot on. I am in the same boat. I have learnt that instead of victimizing myself, I want to believe in myself and do my best to focus on steering the boat in a different direction.