Fired for being Hot?

[cakes]

Its from the Tabloid the NY Post, but its an interesting story:
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/m...JUIl9OhB6xTBVI
I don't get what the deal is, she seems like she dressed appropriately for the job; her managers are just idiots that said the wrong thing to her and now they're paying for it.

Some like it hot -- just not the bosses at Citibank, a lawsuit claims.

Debrahlee Lorenzana, a curvy Queens brunette, said she was dressing professionally, but her male bosses and co-workers still found her too steamy and fired her.

"Everything I wore was professional, things everybody wears in corporate America," Lorenzana, 33, told The Post yesterday. "The way they looked at what I wore was very disappointing."

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Lorenzana, 33, went to work as a business banking officer at Citibank's Chrysler Building branch in September 2008.

"Shortly after the commencement of her employment, branch manager Craig Fisher and assistant branch manager Peter Claibourne began articulating inappropriate and sexist comments concerning plaintiff's clothing and appearance," her Manhattan court filing says.

She was told "she must refrain from wearing certain items of clothing, in particular, turtleneck tops, pencil skirts, fitted business suits, or other properly tailored clothing," the suit says.

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"In blatantly discriminatory fashion, plaintiff was advised that as a result of the shape of her figure, such clothes were purportedly 'too distracting' for her male colleagues and supervisors to bear."

The sexy single mom pointed out to her bosses "that other female colleagues wore similar professional attire," and that some dressed far more provocatively, the filing says.

But her supervisors shot back that those women didn't have to worry about turning them on "as their general unattractiveness rendered moot their sartorial choices, unlike plaintiff," the papers say.

Lorenzana was also told that "as a result of her tall stature, coupled with her curvaceous figure, she should not wear classic high-heeled business shoes, as this purportedly drew attention to her body in a manner that was upsetting to her easily distracted male managers."

"She was punished because her male bosses couldn't handle their libidos," Lorenzana's lawyer, Jack Tuckner, said.

The fed-up femme fatale made a formal complaint to HR in May of last year, and asked for a transfer. She was finally transferred in July, but matters didn't improve at the next branch, where she said she was chided for failing to recruit new customers. She was axed in August.

Lorenzana's gender-discrimination suit was dismissed last month because her deal with Citibank called for any disputes to be settled in private arbitration. She's pressing her case there.

In a press release, Citibank said, "We believe this lawsuit is without merit and we will defend against it vigorously."

[507phantom]

why is a woman that hot working at a bank? shouldn't she be on fox news?

[Trs031]

Sounds like ALOT of HE said She said BS, Id like to see if they settle out of this, or really stick to their guns defending it vigorously. What Do you guys think???

[reddLegend]

i think it would be a lose/lose for citibank. if they let her keep dressing sexy she'd eventually start crying sexual harassment. i don't think her bosses were wrong pointing out that her appearance was a distraction.
i'd love to have a chick like that as a co-worker, a little distraction is great at a bank. i can see if they were police, or heavy equipment operators, or something where your focus can save or take lives.

[bandoni]

I worry about this constantly when I go into work.

[OLDSKOOLACURA]

Originally Posted by Trs031

Sounds like ALOT of HE said She said BS, Id like to see if they settle out of this, or really stick to their guns defending it vigorously. What Do you guys think???

i think your right, and i wanna see if they stick with it too

[mightimouse]

I would like for her to get a job at the strip bar I go to.

[OLDSKOOLACURA]

Originally Posted by mightimouse

I would like for her to get a job at the strip bar I go to.

i concur

[cakes]

word on the street is that she wasn't meeting their performance measures in terms of bringing in the number of clients they wanted to see. But her manager was an idiot and also said that her attire was also to blame. If he just kept that part to himself, Citi wouldn't be in this mess.
The exact same thing is happening in a Michigan Hooters. A manager fired a girl and told her it was because she gained weight, when he shouldn't have given a reason at all since MI is an "at will employment" state, and they won't have a messy suit on their hands.

[byalegend]

Originally Posted by wksebati

word on the street is that she wasn't meeting their performance measures in terms of bringing in the number of clients they wanted to see. But her manager was an idiot and also said that her attire was also to blame. If he just kept that part to himself, Citi wouldn't be in this mess.
The exact same thing is happening in a Michigan Hooters. A manager fired a girl and told her it was because she gained weight, when he shouldn't have given a reason at all since MI is an "at will employment" state, and they won't have a messy suit on their hands.

hgeez: