The Resume

(June 16, 1812- )
Headquartered in New York City, NY
Involved in banking and financial services
Employs 266,000 (2012)
NYSE: C

Why Citigroup might be annoying:

They are accused of helping the brother of the former president of Mexico, Raúl Salinas de Gortari, with money laundering (1998).
They paid $400 million in fines for deceiving investors with bunk research (2002).
An internal memo of theirs detailed how America was becoming a Plutonomy rather than a democracy.
They paid $3 billion in fines for financing Enron (2003).
They settled a lawsuit for $2.65 billion over claims they improperly sold their stocks and bonds in WorldCom (2003).
They paid $18 million for improperly taking funds from the accounts of credit card consumers.
They paid hundreds of millions of dollars in bonuses to their employees even as they received bailout money.
They continually failed stress tests to determine if they could handle another financial crisis.
They cut 70,000+ jobs in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis.

Why Citigroup might not be annoying:

They helped create Citi Field, the New York Mets' home stadium.
They are one of the oldest banks in America.
They are one of the world's largest credit card issuers.

Credit: D & Captain Howdy

Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

• Alan Moore Doesn’t Like Me
• Captain Howdy's Profiles [Series 6]
• Corporations
• Look at Me, My Picture Is Art
• Profiles 32751-33000 (Ranked: 32879)

Year In Review:

For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 2 Votes: 100% Annoying
In 2023, Out of 11 Votes: 54.55% Annoying
In 2022, Out of 6 Votes: 100% Annoying
In 2021, Out of 7 Votes: 100% Annoying
In 2020, Out of 4 Votes: 100% Annoying
In 2019, Out of 4 Votes: 75.00% Annoying
In 2018, Out of 2 Votes: 100% Annoying
In 2017, Out of 11 Votes: 54.55% Annoying
In 2016, Out of 1 Votes: 100% Annoying
In 2015, Out of 4 Votes: 100% Annoying
In 2014, Out of 19 Votes: 52.63% Annoying
In 2013, Out of 17 Votes: 52.94% Annoying
In 2012, Out of 108 Votes: 78.70% Annoying