I’m temping at citigroup for a few months before I move to phoenix, but I did get to attend a company meeting today.
They brought in the bigwigs of citi, including two british speaking gents (ceo’s and the like).
Anyways these guys spoke of the buffalo location in such a good light I couldn’t beleive it.
They already have one huge building here next to geico, and the exec spoke of building another building in buffalo, and hiring “hundreds of new jobs”.
It might be an avenue for some of you guys to get into a world class company.
I found it somewhat funny that the ceo kept calling buffalo “such a great value to build a business”. I translated that to “you people work for basically nothing”
The temp jobs pay decent for temp jobs, but they are really mindless monkey work. I was talking to one of the guys that just got hired by the company directly, and the salary goes way up over your temp salary, and the benefits are outstanding.
Just walking around the office here in amherst, you just know that this company has alot of money to throw around, its really a nice facility.
i know the current location is, but what i got outta what justin posted is that they are considering another spot downtown for more people
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they’re building another building right next to the one they have now that they just built a year or 2 ago.
citi is a great company but the only problem is they won’t hesitate to drop you/your whole facility like it’s hot if they find cost savings elsewhere. The majority of the jobs coming here, especially in the ibanking division, are them getting rid of people from big cities and moving them here so they can pay less. The minute they decide that they can get the same quality of work overseas for less, they may very well do the same thing to buffalo.
Ive been rotting in Citigroup for years, still not making what my tuition was my last year of grad school. They are pumping this place full of jobsbecause a $100,000 job in new york costs $40,000 here and India has closed it income gap on us to such an extent that its easier to just move the other jobs to Buffalo too. Lots of days off, good benefits, and not every department is as bad as mine, but there are also plenty of boring manual input jobs and low salaries. Better than nothing though, good to see companies showing interest in the area.
shiet i’d apply, but i have nothing to offer. i go to school for environmental planning and design. i have a few years of management experience, but its in retail not business.
i always thought enviromental planning and design was really interesting. it would have been my second or third choice if i didnt stick it out in accounting.
im gonna check up on citi and see whats happening locally. thanks for the heads up
I found it somewhat funny that the ceo kept calling buffalo “such a great value to build a business”. I translated that to “you people work for basically nothing”
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truth
some of you should really think about relocating, there is so much outside of buffalo if you plan ahead
With a company like Citi bring as many jobs to Buffalo as they plan, the city will continue to improve. Cost of living is low here so they can pay a lower scale and its still a good deal for everyone involved.
I’ve worked there since November '05 and I’m been rather happy with the situation.
Justin, our of curiosity, do you remember the names of the people who spoke at the meeting?
not true. I’ve been trying to sadly there isn’t much else out there for someone without a college education.
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Evolve’s right. I honestly never finished college. I started off temping at Citi for $14/hour. Since I was hired there I went salary and I’m earning a considerable amount more than that now.