Lorna Hajdini Fact Check: Did Peter Girnus promote female executives at JP Morgan? The truth behind viral posts

“Not transactional ownership. People ownership. In this kind of leadership, you don’t just manage the pipeline. You manage the people who build the pipeline. Their trajectory. Their compensation. Their future in the company. Their references when they try to leave. I taught her that. Not at NYU Stern. Not at Harvard. here. in leveraged finance. In my corner office on the forty-second floor, framed are the tombstones of every deal that made this department what it is today,” the post continued.

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“Lorna’s handshake could restructure the cap sheet. It’s not a compliment. It’s a performance review. When a complaint comes across my desk, I read it twice. Not because it’s disturbing. Because it’s familiar. Every behavior described. Direct communication. Mentoring after hours. The expectation that juniors will earn promotions by showing commitment to the team. This is the playbook. My playbook. When Lorna became executive director and inherited a direct reports book, the one I handed her who needs to understand hierarchy,” the post continued.

Girnus shared the entire content in the substack postal as well as. As of this writing, his posts on X have been viewed 1 million times.

Many people responded to the post. “This isn’t ‘coaching,’ it’s control masquerading as culture. When ‘ownership’ starts to sound like ‘I own you,’ you’ve crossed a line. If your system requires fear and leverage to function, then there’s something wrong with the investigation or not,” one person said. wrote. other additional “Just because you taught and mentored her, it does not mean that anyone is innocent. You are not objective, for clear reasons. It is not that the complainant is innocent and she is guilty, but one must always be willing to hear all sides. Also, the culture you describe is the land of fantasy.”

Another one explain “Bro wrote a TL;DR about firing someone who had a life outside of work and used boring financial jargon to defend the aggressor. I was harassed by a woman at work once and left because of it. She was still there and I wasn’t. My boss ended up being so unbiased. I’ve seen it.”

His profile further states that his employment locations include Sprint, Best Buy, where he served as a sales consultant. Girnus then worked as an overnight stocker/grocery partner at HEB. For a while, he was self-employed as a freelance developer and IT consultant. According to his profile, Girnus was a technical support engineer at Forepoint at the time and now works at Trend Micro.

Meanwhile, Hajdini interned before landing a job at JPMorgan Chase, where he then rose through the corporate ranks. she LinkedIn The now-deleted profile noted that she lived in New York. Therefore, it is impossible for Girnus and Hajdini to have a professional overlap that would lead to her promotion at JPMorgan.

Some also pointed out the irony of Genus’ post. “Peter Girnus is not a JPMorgan employee but a cybersecurity researcher at Trend Micro. This is a satire,” one wrote. other additional “Note: Peter Girnus is a network technician, he is not a leveraged finance person, therefore, he cannot be the leveraged finance mentor of Lorna Hajdini, the alleged abuser of JPMorgan Chase.”

Another one explain “Peter Genus does not work for JPMorgan Chase. His actual career is in cybersecurity, and his presence on social media—he often writes from the perspective of an “executive” at various companies—is largely satirical.”

It is worth noting that a JPMorgan spokesperson told the Daily Mail that an internal investigation showed that the complaints against the company and Al-Hajdini had no basis.