Debralee Lorenzana, a 33 year old Queens woman, is suing banking giant Citibank because, she claims, she was fired for being too sexy and distracting her male co-workers.
Really…..
Lorenzana worked as a business banking officer for Citibank from September 2008 to August 2009, when she was fired. Lorenza's lawsuit says that she was fired basically for two reasons. One was that she was not opening enough new accounts. The other was that despite dressing appropriately by any reasonable business standard, she was told by at least two managers that she needed to stop wearing heels and tailored clothing that accentuated her curves and other bodily assets.
Lorenzana's lawsuit even goes so far as to say that other women in the office were allowed to dress the way she was not allowed to dress because the other women were not blessed (cursed?) with height, curves, and general womanliness.
For anybody who lives or works in Manhattan, this whole case seems questionable at best. New York City, and midtown Manhattan in particular, is full of very sexy women who dress very stylishly and show off, in a tasteful but revealing way, their natural (or sometimes unnatural) curves.
Heels, tapered dresses and revealing outfits are practically a required uniform in the business districts of the Big Apple. If, as Lorenzana claims, she was simply dressing stylishly and sexily, it is hard to fathom that she would be fired for distracting her co-workers.
Anybody walking the streets in Manhattan at lunch time during the spring and summer months could attest to the fact that even the women who don't look good look good. That last statement makes all the sense in the world, by the way, if you've spent any time in New York City either as a resident, employee or tourist.
