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 ...
I’m surprised!
You would think someone who looks like that would draw customers to the bank.
She looks like the chick in the Meatloaf video...
Poor thing.
I feel so sorry for her.
I wonder if she needs a place to stay while she’s out of work? I feel generous.
In my state that would be a perfectly appropriate reason. No reason at all would do as well. Colorado must not be a hire/fire at will state or the lawyer wouldn’t have agreed to waste his time in the first place.
Speaking from experience, this is exactly the way old-school financial company managers think. Although usually, they just refuse to hire the "hot" woman in the first place.
Should go to the PR ping list.
In all but the suit photo, she is dressed completely inappropriately. Her clothing is much too tight and bust exposing for work.
No prob
If Citibank received TARP funds and haven’t paid all of it back yet, they should NOT be allowed to hire someone this HOT looking. The thought of my tax dollars being used to defend a major corporation against a sexual harassment charge is just not right. I’m sure she has no problem being looked at and talked to by the “right people”, but as soon as someone who doesn’t fit her qualifications of a “right person” approaches her, look out!
My verdict...Guilty as charged! (besides, the slide show on the village voice website is infected with something my Norton virus protection does not like at all...)
Thanks. I guess if they mentioned that her wardrobe was inappropriate, and she didn’t make changes, maybe the bank felt they had no choice.
But of course there will be a lawsuit, and although being fired is lousy I expect this woman to do more than Ok in the end.
Definitely not guilty.
It is hard to work with such women. It’s hard because it’s hard, nuf said.
She could tone it down — she should tone it down — still look beautiful and stylish with appropriate clothing choices.
If the workplace demanded that of her, that’s a reasonable request and if she failed to follow through — they were right to let her go.
Geez...another in a long line of self-absorbed ‘look at me’ northeast bimbos...there’s lots more of them hanging around 42nd Street.
Could be she went to work in mini-skirts with her boobs hanging out and that's OK for Hooters, not a bank.
Probably that is the real story.
Didn't think so...
I’m fascinated by the fact that NO ONE, not even the article, mentions anything about the quality of her work. If her work was exemplary, I don’t believe an issue would have been made about her appearance. Many ‘hotties’ get by only on their appearance and not on what they commercially produce.
Sorry hun, you’re not that hot.
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