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Woman Says Citibank Fired Her Because She Was Too Hot
Business Insider ^ | June 2, 2010 | Courtney Comstock

Posted on 06/02/2010 5:09:25 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine

Extract: Debrahlee Lorenzana is filing a lawsuit against Citibank because they fired her, she says, for the strangest reason: she's too hot.

....Her bosses told her that "as a result of the shape of her figure, such clothes were purportedly 'too distracting' for her male colleagues and supervisors to bear," she says

(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Humor; Society; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: citi; citibank; discrimination; guilty; idhitit; idhitit3times; law; lazwouldhitit; notguilty
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To: ConservativeMan55

THANK YOU!


61 posted on 06/02/2010 5:48:53 AM PDT by cvq3842 (Freedom is worth fighting for.)
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To: AFPhys

Anyone who even thinks she is guilty of anything needs to be hanged!


62 posted on 06/02/2010 5:50:42 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA (Anti-Gunners suffer from Factose Intolerance)
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To: truthbetold11

Read the second page of this story: http://www.villagevoice.com/2010-06-01/news/is-this-woman-too-hot-to-work-in-a-bank/2

According to that: After this bank hired her (possibly because she was hot), she was denied training needed to perform her job description. Then she was told, “Go get business for the bank.” When business came into the bank as a result of her efforts, instead of being assigned to her account, they were assigned to others.

If nothing else, ya gotta feel for this gal if the way this is portrayed is accurate.


63 posted on 06/02/2010 5:52:02 AM PDT by AFPhys ((Praying for our troops, our citizens, that the Bible and Freedom become basis of the US law again))
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To: MileHi

A restaurant in Denver.


64 posted on 06/02/2010 5:53:17 AM PDT by Dr. Ursus
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To: truthbetold11

yep. Only problem is, modesty isn’t taught any more. Well, in most places. My son understands its importance, as do most of the kids we know. Of course, we homeschool. ;-)


65 posted on 06/02/2010 5:54:05 AM PDT by kimmie7 (THE CROSS - Today, Tomorrow and Always!)
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To: cvq3842

Take a look at this article: http://www.villagevoice.com/2010-06-01/news/is-this-woman-too-hot-to-work-in-a-bank/2 ... the bank telling her she was too hot was not a single occurrence.


66 posted on 06/02/2010 5:54:19 AM PDT by AFPhys ((Praying for our troops, our citizens, that the Bible and Freedom become basis of the US law again))
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To: Pearls Before Swine
TTIUWP!!!!
67 posted on 06/02/2010 5:57:26 AM PDT by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

I have only two words to say:

Mein Gott!!!


68 posted on 06/02/2010 5:58:43 AM PDT by PLMerite (Ride to the sound of the Guns - I'll probably need help.)
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To: Dr. Ursus

Sorry, wasn’t familiar. I avoid Denver. Except when my wife wants to go to the Spaghetti Factory.


69 posted on 06/02/2010 5:59:21 AM PDT by MileHi ( "It's coming down to patriots vs the politicians." - ovrtaxt)
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To: sueuprising

The full article explains that she’ll go before an arbitrator instead—and that sexual/hiring issues don’t tend to go as well with arbitrators because they are primarily middle-aged white men.


70 posted on 06/02/2010 6:01:48 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: MileHi

I’m visiting a friend in Aurora next week. We’re going to
the Fort for dinner in Morrison and the next day to a
Rockies game.


71 posted on 06/02/2010 6:01:58 AM PDT by Dr. Ursus
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To: kimmie7

According to the Village Voice article, she was not dressing inappropriately as far as modesty is concerned. They took pictures of co-workers of hers who clearly did. The bank’s dress restrictions on her consisted of such things as ‘don’t wear turtlenecks’ ... ‘don’t wear business suits’ ... ‘don’t wear 3” heels’ (Hard as it is for me to understand, 3” heels certainly seems OK for business)

Read the Village Voice story I linked above. I know that it was written by and for her lawyer, but I certainly think that in this case, this lady may well have been dressing appropriately- but God has given her some beautiful assets.

I hope that Citibank at a minimum has to provide training for her in a profession in which her prettiness could never be to her detriment, and in which her intelligence is of value.


72 posted on 06/02/2010 6:04:06 AM PDT by AFPhys ((Praying for our troops, our citizens, that the Bible and Freedom become basis of the US law again))
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To: Dr. Ursus
You are going to like the Fort. We went a couple months ago for our 20th anniversary. The buffalo is fantastic.
73 posted on 06/02/2010 6:05:35 AM PDT by MileHi ( "It's coming down to patriots vs the politicians." - ovrtaxt)
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To: numberonepal

Definitely fodder for the hottie ping list...


74 posted on 06/02/2010 6:06:33 AM PDT by AFPhys ((Praying for our troops, our citizens, that the Bible and Freedom become basis of the US law again))
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To: MileHi

Thanks,I’m going for the buffalo prime rib.


75 posted on 06/02/2010 6:06:51 AM PDT by Dr. Ursus
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To: truthbetold11
Oh for heaven’s sake!
76 posted on 06/02/2010 6:08:20 AM PDT by starlifter (Sapor Amo Pullus)
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To: thecabal
"Butterface"?????

Complete and utter nonsense.

77 posted on 06/02/2010 6:09:09 AM PDT by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

She should sue them because all they had to do was transfer her to where all gay males worked, not a problem for most banks.


78 posted on 06/02/2010 6:13:47 AM PDT by Eye of Unk ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act" G.Orwell)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

I’d hit it.


79 posted on 06/02/2010 6:14:42 AM PDT by Lazamataz ("We beat the Soviet Union. Then we became them." -- Lazamataz, 2005)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

Guilty—in the sense that yes, she is beautiful(she may not be quite to your taste, but she would appeal very strongly to many men) and she is not dressing in a businesslike way suitable for a bank.

Clothes send a message. If you’re wearing clothes that say, “I’m a team player, I subscribe to the goals of this organization, I want to get ahead here, and I’m ready to work,” you’re not going to get fired no matter how sexy you are. But this girl is sending a message saying, “I’m more interested in being pretty and being attractive to men than I am in advancing my career with Citibank,” so evidently her career at Citibank did not advance.


80 posted on 06/02/2010 6:17:29 AM PDT by ottbmare (I could agree wth you, but then we'd both be wrong.)
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