Thread regarding Citigroup Inc. / Citibank / Citi layoffs

The moral of the article below is do NOT do KT-Knowledge Transfer aka the company or your manager demanding that you hand over your Trade Secrets = Intellectual Property.

They're Fvcking You Over with Layoffs, Low Salaries, No Bonus or whatever, then you Must NOT give them your Trade Secrets of how to do your job and troubleshoot for free !

Don't be a Svcker.

Your employers, plural do NOT care about you or your problems. We are NOT and Never family, friends or advocates. Any employer who claims "We're a family." is flat out LYING. You can NOT FIRE or Layoff your relatives/family. You can choose Not to speak to them. But you're STILL related to them, like it or not.

I personally use the 5 D's and these have worked well for me:

• Play Dvmb, Get Amnesia. You can Not tell them what you don't know. As Valeris of Vulcan stated, "I do NOT remember.".

• Delay, Slow Walk everything

• Deny

• Defend
• Deflect (say something along the lines of, "Ask so-and-so, maybe they know.")

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/articles/employee-hands-notice-manager-demands-171500668.html

Your Coworkers, Employers and HR are Never and Not your friend or advocate.

Coworkers will throw each other under the bus to protect their jobs or jobs they may want in the future.

And the only MotherFvckers who care about "Being a Team Player", the Kumbaya BullSh!t are the Company Owners and Executive Management.

Everyone else, employees are just hired mercenaries who are and should look out only for themselves.

The Company-Employer is simply a Check-Writer.

The Comments section in the article below is incisive:

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/articles/people-sharing-subtle-red-flags-123103535.html

She did the same thing to me. The call to schedule a zoom came on the last day of vacation. I did not call in that day. I waited until the next day.

Go work for a competitor and forget all about these mo--ns.

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@OP

Please Read. Your situation is like this:

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/articles/people-rally-behind-older-woman-184042447.html

We are hiring thousands of folks on visas, it's all public:

https://h1bhq.com/search?employerSlug=citibank-n-a&fiscalYear=2026&pageSize=25

They did the same thing to me. I was laid off from Citi after eight years, literally the day after returning from vacation. I was completely blindsided.

What struck me the most was that I had a master’s degree and years of experience in my field, while four of my colleagues had only high school diplomas and had been with the company for over 20 years. Many had landed in technology roles through reorganizations and internal connections, despite having little to no prior experience in the field. Not that there’s anything wrong with learning on the job, but it was frustrating to realize that my education, experience, and qualifications ultimately meant very little.

I was also one of the more junior employees on the team and knew I was making less than everyone else. I genuinely thought that made my position relatively secure if layoffs ever came. Clearly, I was wrong.

Unfortunately, that’s corporate America. My advice to anyone working at a large corporation is to save your money, build your financial security, and never assume a company will provide you with a career for life. Loyalty and hard work don’t necessarily guarantee job security.

One thing I will say is that you’re fortunate they gave you several months’ notice. I had absolutely no warning. It took me nearly a year to find another permanent position. About eight months into my unemployment, I landed a consulting role that lasted a couple of months, but it wasn’t until around the one-year mark that I finally secured something permanent.

My biggest criticism of Citi is that it’s an enormous institution that, in my opinion, has become far too reliant on restructuring and cutting employees to improve its bottom line rather than genuinely innovating. You can only cut your way to profitability for so long.

I’m genuinely sorry you’re going through this. I know firsthand how frustrating and discouraging it can be, especially after giving a company so many years of your life. My advice is to keep applying, and don’t overlook smaller banks. In my experience, they can offer more stability and may be less prone to the constant restructuring you see at larger institutions.

Wishing you the best of luck. Just remember, losing that job doesn’t diminish your experience, your abilities, or what you bring to the table. If there’s one thing my experience taught me, it’s that you should always prioritize your own future over a company’s loyalty to you.

Trying to compress any employee's decades of education, experience and expertise into six weeks of "knowledge transfer" ("KT") is an absolute sham.

These entry-level visa or offshore workers simply cannot absorb or apply all this knowledge in such a short time. And given visa and offshore turnover, even what little knowledge they manage to retain will lost once they, inevitably, leave the building.

OP will likely be at a more rewarding job by the time Citi's shafted customers and clients and internal stakeholders start demanding to know why data pipelines keep failing.

That's why you skimp on training. Give them bare bones happy path only.

@OP If you have been training your replacements in offshore or some onsite contractors or a new H4 EAD/H1B/L1/OPT etc. please report to #DHS, #USCIS and #DOL.

Please share your group or department details and manager details to them.
They have been doing these silent layoffs with some severence packages so that people will stay quiet. You have to protest for your rights.
This is discrimination and racism.

Hang in there the layoff does not define you. You have proved that you are a good worker if you can last 10 years at Citi. Hold your head high and shine for the next employer.

I worked 20 years when Citi laid me off shortly after my 20 year anniversary. I thought if I worked 60 hours a week I would never be laid off. I was wrong. I learned that God was taking care of me.

Praying for you.