Caixa servers denounce moral harassment in the technology department

After the departure of economist Pedro Guimarães from the command of Caixa, in the wake of complaints of sexual harassment, a group of employees of the state bank have also pointed out the practice of moral harassment.

In the last few days, seven servers sought the CNN to denounce episodes of abusive attitudes, especially in the technology sector. In total, four agreed to give testimonies.

According to reports made by the company’s four employees, who preferred to maintain secrecy so as not to suffer retaliation, the “policy of fear and intimidation” prevails in the state bank, with verbal offenses and explicit threats.

According to them, the culture of moral harassment is recurrent from the lowest to the highest levels of the state-owned company.

One of the employees of the financial institution said that she even filed a complaint with the company’s internal affairs department for retaliation. According to her, the request was for the servers not to make complaints.

wanted by CNN Caixa’s press office informed that “all information will be forwarded for analysis by the state bank’s internal affairs department, as well as by the independent company to be hired by the new management”.

In her inaugural speech, on Tuesday (5), the new president of the state bank, Daniella Marques, said that she intends to improve the internal environment and that she will enable channels for complaints.

“I make my commitment that all the necessary measures will be taken, that I have full support for everything to be verified and clarified”, said the economist.

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“The behavior that began to be adopted at Caixa was fear. Whoever shouted the loudest was the boss. This was verified from the technician to the highest level. Bullying was common. It was asking to remove excerpts from the minutes of the meeting and pass messages with profanity, that people were incompetent. People didn’t even know how to respond. Many women were crying. It was the culture of fear and no one had the courage to say anything. I didn’t have the courage to report it before because of fear” (Larissa*, 32 years old).

“The technology chain of command follows the line of moral harassment and is not new. A policy of fear and intimidation is applied. A good example is the number of decommissionings, never seen before in the company, which have taken place since 2019. Employees with excellent CVs and vast experience in their areas of activity lost their jobs and were sent to bank branches miles away from their homes, embezzling and scrapping the sector” (Gabriel*, 37 years old).

“In one service, there was a complaint from a manager that his computer’s video and audio system was not working. The notebook displayed a security message. He called me and said. ‘What… service is this?’, he asked. “How do you believe a user’s word? If he asks for…, will you give it to him?” (Guilherme*, 43 years old).

“At a meeting, a manager told those present: ‘Stop reporting, p…’. The prerequisite is to obey blindly” (Jussara*, 45 years old).

* Fictitious names. The identities of the whistleblowers were withheld.