Citifinancial nasty caller

[FreshLikeADaisy]

Everyone I know who works/worked there loves it, has seen lots of career growth, and enjoys the great benifits.

Can't argue with that. You may be right about the subsidiary thing, too; older companies tend to be a little easier to work for than newer companies or startups, and AT&T UCS was only four or five years old (IIRC) when they got taken over by Citi.

[ruggal]

I gotta say. Their benifits rock. Good health care, on site daycare, good advancement oportunities, ect. ect. I'd work for them in a heartbeat. Mabey I'm a sell out, but hey I gotta feed my family.

Oh my, I didn't mean to offend any current employees of the company, particularly our friends HERE.

The recruiter who called me, however, was proposing I work as an independent contrator (I'm currently employed), opening an office in the area...with the "potentital" to earn hundreds of thousands of dollars running a business for them. Of course working in essence for free in the beginning.

So I wouldn't be eligible for all the great benefits of a regular full time employee either. The guy had the same hard line sell as their collections group.

Once again, I hope you weren't offended, and I certainly fault NO ONE for providing for their family especially with kick a$$ benefits. Lucky you, ours suck.

[JollyGG]

Oh my, I didn't mean to offend any current employees of the company, particularly our friends HERE.

Once again, I hope you weren't offended, and I certainly fault NO ONE for providing for their family especially with kick a$$ benefits. Lucky you, ours suck.

Heck I don't work for them. Some of my friends do. I'm in medical research and as far as I know they haven't gone into that buisness yet.
My husband tried for a few years to get a job with them but never had any luck. Instead he now works for a very subprime lender who also treats their employees really well.
Just making an observation. I don't think I would have excepted contract work either.

[vleisme]

Out of the 20 credit cards I had, Citifinancial was the most persistant in hounding me by phone prior to filing and they were one of my lower owing balances. Bank of America was the best and I actually feel bad that I defaulted on them. They maybe called once then they sent letters asking how they could help, not threatening me one time.

[treehugger1]

Don't be confused on this post-thread. CitiFinancial is a separate entity of CitiGroup (as far as I know.) I believe that Citi Finance even trades under its own stock ticker. If my memory serves me correct Citi operates several sub-companies; Citigroup, Citibank, and Citi Financial. Citibank is generally a very solid company and, agian as far as I know, it is Citibank that issues credit cards. Citi Financial issues a great many of high-risk unsecured loans along with their other products. At least they loaned $7K to me and it should have been clear that at the time I was pretty well strapped.

http://www.citifinancial.com/topnavigation/whoweare.php

Cheers.