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“…your pants are too tight.” That’s one of the things Debrahlee Lorenzana said her bosses told her before firing her from her position at Citibank. Lorenzana says that she was told that the combination of the shape of her body and the clothes she wore were ‘too distracting’ for her male colleagues.
The list of clothing Lorenzana couldn’t wear included turtlenecks, pencil skirts, fitted suits and three inch heels. So now Lorenzana is, you guessed it, suing Citibank for wrongful termination. And to bolster her case (?), Lorenzana’s attorney got her to do a photo shoot seen here (Lorenzana shown left.) But the thing is, in my opinion, the photos are intended to look sensual. They don’t look like the photos of a woman fighting to get her job back or to make a stand against women being discriminated against in the workplace. They look like the pictures of a woman auditioning to be the star of the next big and stupid reality show. Am I wrong?
Offices have dress codes, and whether you’re tall and curvy or short and fat, a too tight skirt is a too tight skirt. Citibank’s stupidity comes in singling out Ms. Lorenzana and basically blaming her because her male colleagues can’t keep their mind on work. We once had a woman come into the office on casual Friday in biker shorts and a tank top. Men and women alike were distracted – not because she was this tall, voluptuous model type, but because you just don’t wear biker shorts and a tank top to work unless you’re working at the Tour de France.
It’ll be interesting to see how this case pans out. I wouldn’t be the least bit surprised to find Ms. Lorenzana showing up on a reality show sometime in the very near future. Image Credits: Carrie Schechter
Source: NY Daily News
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