I literally can’t find a seat in the office. The Workplace app is useless. It shows the next three weeks as fully booked.
At this point, I just walk around the office, can’t find a space, and leave. If they’re actually tracking hours based on badge-out time, I’m sc--wed.
It’s pretty ridiculous that the RTO policy is pushing people to come into the office when there literally isn’t a seat for them to work at.
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@r9 this is a silly response. It's a global bank and people work different hours. No self respecting person would work late at night and then run to the office at 7am in the morning to secure a seat. The seat booking system is ineffective because the sites are over capacity.
Everyone should video record with their phones the RTO Seat Stealing 💺altercations between employees and then give the videos to the news media.
Some examples:
NYPost, Charles Gasparino and other reporters have written numerous articles about Citibank and they cover Citibank on a regular basis.
TMZ
NBC News, and others
They'll protect your identity through the USA First Amendment Rights. There are also laws and rights protecting media reporters. They will Not divulge their news sources.
Let's just say I did the above at a previous employer concerning an event. LOL! 😁
You better believe the company was doing PR damage control for at least 3 months!
To date, NO one knows who gave the media the videos.
The videos are still circulating on the Internet and searchable, and so I don't want to divulge the company's name and out myself. LOL!
New Citi Directory…. where are the assigned seating charts for 388 HQ?
Citi is too oblivious to realize that their Laidoff employees and competitors are ROTFLMFAO with Schafenfreude at Citi's RTO policy and Gladiator Arena where employees are fighting over stolen RTO Seats 💺!
LOL!
Wonderful corporate culture where a Hostile work environment exists and employee fights, arguments, threats, danger, intimidation are plentiful in addition to the loud confidential Zoom meetings we're forced to attend IN OFFICE that we can do in the privacy of our homes!
Citi has devolved into a Gh3tto Bank culture! Not unlike Southwest Airlines, Spirit and Frontier Airlines where videos of as$aults and fist fights are on TMZ, NYPost and the Internet.
Pathetic!
The Seat Booking App releases seats AFTER 9:00 AM.
This means as long as the employee Checks in by 8:59 AM, that employee Owns the Seat! 💺
NO MotherFvkker should be stealing Reserved seats BEFORE 9:00 AM !
These are bad, negative employee behaviours that are threatening, intimidating, coercive, dangerous and Non-collaborative which are supposedly against Citi's own employee policies stated in Citi's own Employee Handbook, that ALL Employees annually attest by signing that they Read 📖📚 and Understood the Citi Employee Handbook!
If this is your situation, means you’re arriving extremely late, while I get your predicament, it’s partly on you. People like you that do that and still complain are the ones that mess it up for everyone.
Book and kick them out of your seat if they’re there when you arrive otherwise we will all pay the price and get sc--wed forced to sit next to someone that watches how long you take on your bathroom trip and how many times you do it. Used to have a manager that would watch me go into the door and back and follow every footstep.
@mh 100
So you reserve your seat two weeks in advance. The time comes, you drive to work in traffic, about and hour drive. Then when you get there, there's no place to park. If you are handicapped all the handicapped spots are taken so you have to walk half a mile to the building. After swiping your badge, barely making it to the bathroom, you attempt to find the location of your seat. When you get there someone is already there. So you have to have a confrontation and hope for the best. If you get your seat, you may have to log in to the wireless network. Which kicks you off about 3 times. You've taken a few calls using your phone. Finally get online, log in to zoom and it crashes, so you have to restart your computer and do the whole process again. Only to be on a call that you could have taken at home, no issues. After all this. Not in the mood to stay.
Here are some Legal leverage and we@pons anti-RTO employees can use, especially employees who have childcare, eldercare etc. responsibilities:
Citi is creating a Hostile, Threatening and Dangerous Work environment by enabling and implicitly allowing Seat Thieves to steal booked seats. Citi is complicit in the hostile, dangerous and threatening work environment.
The terminology, "Hostile, dangerous and threatening work environment" are significant and crucial Legal terminology.
If you have medical problems, and most people do, being forced to walk around the office floor and/or building in a futile and absurd attempt to search for an open seat exacerbates your medical problems.
This is in addition to all of the wasted time and wasted money on petroleum, and having to drive back home because of MotherFvkken Seat Thieves Citi is enabling!
Citi started all this Sh!t and wanted RTO. Let Citi deal with the Fallout!
Citi is sh00ting itself in the foot 🦶 and setting itself up for Lawsuits including but NOT limited to or from OSHA Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
This is going to be good. I'm just sitting back eating popcorn, watching the Train 🚉 Wreck movie waiting to happen and hit the media reports.
@ck Well they have got the Canada site completely paid off- aka no loans, lease etc. additional there is internal communication to get the adjacent piece if land for expansion. Idk where you got the info that canada office is getting closed. Lol
You're playing into Citi's hands by being a willing pawn.
Citi is an active, complicit accomplice in instigating and encouraging Seat Thieves.
If Citi wants RTO, then Citi must also enforce NOT Stealing Booked Seats, AND COMPLIANCE with using the Seat Booking App.
Else Citi becomes just another Low Class Gh3tto Southwest Airline, or low cost Airlines like Spirit and Frontier which went bankrupt where Seat Stealing is normal and there are constant as$aults, fist fights and other dangerous behaviours with videos shown on the Internet, NYPost and TMZ!
By having a hands off approach to Seat Stealing, Citi and HR are implicitly but actively encouraging bad Employee behaviours, which supposedly are against Citi's own employee policies in its own Employee Handbook!
Nerves were struck! Maybe you're a Seat Thief ??💺
@ac so you're letting the company turn you into an a$$hole? Sure seat thieves are annoying, but you're playing the game like that pawn you are. "Make the minions fight each other and they'll be too distracted to fight us."
Not that Br@!n De@d Dvmb Citi realizes this, but the problem with that strategy is the first employees to voluntarily Quit are the high performers because they have options. They have skills and knowledge Citi's competitors want.
The employees who will remain and hang onto Citi until the bitter end are the Low Calibre and mediocre employees, the ones Citi doesn't want.
Citi is sh00ting itself in the foot 🦶by going 3, 4 or 5 days RTO.
Citi already pays below market salaries compared to its competitors.
The high performing employees will realize and determine that if they're being forced to RTO 3, 4 or 5 days, they may as well get paid more money for doing it.
@bt that is exactly the real reason. They’ve already spent so much on severance the next step is to make people voluntarily leave. I would put money on the fact they will try to go to 5 days soon.
The best is the fact that (for my office) it’s an open floor plan (are we in a call center?) and there’s 20+ people on calls at the same time. I can hear everyone’s conversation. I can hear them even over my headphones. Super productive and confidential environment!
@ek the 8-hour rule is a new policy
It’s not a new policy. We’ve had to be back in office for 3 days for YEARS now. I don’t have trouble finding a seat where I am and we don’t have to reserve, but that’s ridiculous if your site doesn’t have the capacity to support 3 days for everyone.
@ck Nonsense. Citi just bought the Mississauga office and announced plans to construct another large building next to the existing one.
Do not worry. They will close all canada offices soon. You guys should apply for EU and India work visas.
Same for me. Located at Canada office and it’s been a week and I can’t find a desk for whole week and next week. Raised to my manager but hopeless case. I have to sit in foodcourt with my personal laptop.
Soft quit, if enough people do it, it's going to be so hellish and cause so much client impact that Citi will rethink itself.
If you think about it - its better for Citi to make things so bad that people just decide to quit and get no severance. Just something to think about. I would stay as long as I could and make them pay me when they decide to lay me off. We all know that our number will come up eventually.
@ac - please tell me what HR department you can complain to. I think they are all just bots. No human beings work in HR.
Which office are you located out of?
@a1 I agree, Canada is the worst! No parking, no seats. I had to go back home because of a seat thief, and now, with this shitfu-kery of checking in, if you don’t check in, you lose your seat. Should I be focusing on my work or worrying about my workplace when the organization can’t even handle basic sh-t?
Unite and protest. You are being treated like slaves. Look at your degrees and everything you have achieved so far in life. You do not deserve to be treated like garbage.
HR TROLL.🧌
If you're actually a Citi employee, you know d@mn well the Hotelling-Booking App reserves seats starting from 9:00am to 6:00pm.
Even if employees arrived @ the office at 6:00am or even earlier, there's always the chance some MotherFvkker already STOLE their Seat ! 💺
This is why employees Must ask for and get the name of the Seat Thieves, take a photo of the Seat Thieves AND report them via Email to all managers involved in addition to CHRO SW and the HR Business Unit Partner!
For me, I sure as H3ll am NOT getting into trouble and taking the hit for ostensibly Not RTO-ing or being accused of Not logging into Zoom meetings on time or at all, or Not doing work because of Lazy, Inconsiderate MotherFvkken Seat Thieves!
The Seat Thieves are assuming and counting on YOU Not making a scene at the office because of the awkwardness! Fvck Them! I'm making a scene !
Citi wanted RTO and started this Sh!t and so let Citi deal with the Fallout!
The hotelng app. I recall it being abused by contractors having employees reserve space for them. It became a full time job trying to find office space.
Same in Canada, no space, they have to extend office in Toronto or reduce In-office to 2 days.