If you work at Citibank, the answer would apparently be yes, according to Debrahlee Lorenzana, who is suing the bank on the grounds that it fired her for being really good looking. So good looking, apparently, that it distracted them from the hard work they were doing at Citi and had to be stopped. Her boss Craig Fisher and one of his colleagues tried to make her less hot, allegedly, by pulling Lorenzana into an office one day and telling her she had to stop wearing turtlenecks, pencil skirts, three inch heels or “fitted” business suits. When Lorenzana brought up the matter of other females wearing way more revealing clothes, she was told those women’s shapes were different from mine, and I drew too much attention.” Lorenzana like this was kind of a bunch of bull shit (“I couldn’t believe what I was hearing,” Lorenzana recalls. “I said, ‘You gotta be kidding me!’ I was like, ‘Too distracting? For who? For you? My clients don’t seem to have any problem’) so she decided not to change her wardrobe but rather fug herself up a bit by not wearing make-up and not blowing out her hair. She also wrote a couple letters to HR letting them know she was not pleased with how the meeting went but never heard back and her attempts to downplay how hot she was didn’t work either.
“I could have worn a paper bag, and it would not have mattered,” she says. “If it wasn’t my shirt, it was my pants. If it wasn’t my pants, it was my shoes. They picked on me every single day.” Still, she continued to dress up for work—her brand of femininity is also cultural. “Where I’m from,” she says, switching into Spanish to explain it, “women dress up—like put on makeup and do their nails—to go to the supermarket. And I’m not talking trashy, you know, like in the Heights. I was raised very Latin, you know? We’re feminine. A woman in Puerto Rico takes care of herself. The Puerto Rican women here put down our flag.”
A month or so later she received a message from Craig noting that she was being put on final notice for, among other things lagging sales, but there was some shadiness involving the fact that she was cited for being late on days the bank wasn’t even open. Craig also worked Lorenzana’s last nerve when he asked her to move some heavy boxes and told her to put on high heels to do so (she was wearing flip-flops at the time which you would think would’ve passed the dress code). She sent a couple of letters and emails to some VPs (who never responded) and then put in for a transfer, which was granted a few weeks later. Unfortunately, the gig they gave her in the new office was as a telemarketer and Lorenzana’s title is “business banker.” Didn’t much matter though because she was soon canned from the Citi.
In August, her manager at the Rockefeller Center branch—a woman—sat her down and fired her. The female manager mentioned the problems related to her clothing at the previous branch. She did not mention work performance, Lorenzana says. The manager said she was sorry, but Lorenzana wasn’t fit for the culture of Citibank.
Lorenzana knows this is all bull shit, as does her lawyer.
Her attorney, Jack Tuckner, who calls himself a “sex-positive” women’s-rights lawyer, is the first one to say his client is a babe. But so what? For him, it all boils down to self-control. “It’s like saying,” Tuckner argues, “that we can’t think anymore ’cause our penises are standing up—and we cannot think about you except in a sexual manner—and we can’t look at you without wanting to have sexual intercourse with you. And it’s up to you, gorgeous woman, to lessen your appeal so that we can focus!”
So they’ve filed this suit, which will unfortunately never be heard by a judge or jury but will instead go to arbitration. Tuckner is confident they’ve got a case though, but just to make sure, Tuckner “had a professional photographer shoot her in various work outfits in his office near Wall Street,” to prove there’s nothing wrong here.
Update: Citi had this to say in a statement: “We believe this lawsuit is without merit and we will defend against it vigorously. We respect the privacy of all of our employees and therefore cannot comment more specifically on this litigation, this former employee’s overall performance, or the reasons for her termination- which an arbitration panel must resolve. Citi is committed to fostering a culture of inclusion and providing a respectful environment in the workplace. We have a strong commitment to diversity and we do not condone, or tolerate, discrimination within our business for any reason.”
Bess,
Distract me.
Thanks
-Guy who wants to be distracted by you in a completely sexual manner.
The words ‘too hot’ should not be in any man’s vocabulary.
I can have her for $5.
I can’t really tell. Let me check the top of her head (with a beer on top) or bent over an office desk – then I would know
Is that you Ashley?
阴茎或 GTFO.
way too hot
yeah she is attractive, but is she nuts?
Anyone whos ever walked into a Citibank (or other C facility) should know that compared to the rest of the team, this girl may, actually, be too hot. I wouldn’t be surprised if her female colleagues were the ones who complained to management…
@9 homo
Too good looking for Citi. I guess they won’t be hiring me any time soon.
I wouldn’t hit it.
Those real?
Val from the caf has also been spoken to, as has the “don’tchoo roll you EYES at me” lady from the sandwich station.
Is she running in the Belmont this weekend?
She should be in IR at a hedge fund not at some dump like C.
~Guy who hates to see talent wasted
If she can use her latin heritage to dress like a slut can I use my Irish heritage to be drunk at work?
They should just get a fluffer for the office. That said, I worked with way hotter chicks than her, who are also far less revealing and classy, which makes them even sexier imo.
@15, agreed. No one else sees the horseface? She’s not *that* hot.
I can’t think ’cause my penis is standing up.
Skanky Hot
@19 More like camel than horse in my opinion.
Anal_yst, thoughts on the strap on, you, and this girl rumors?
I’d pull out of that England so hard that the next guy to be King would hit me.
–Guy who Wouldn’t Botch That Joke, but can’t think ’cause his penis is standing up.
You r all such snots. Get 4 reals.
‘i cant think because my penis is standing up’ will definitely become the new tldr
told her to put on high heals to move some heavy boxes FTW
make her a teller in their branch, I would transfer my account just to see her…
also, to those saying she’s not that hot, please reevaluate your benchmark. ‘work hot’ and ‘hot hot’ are two very, very different things. there have been times i’ve been turned on by plushy deal toys because they resemble boobs.
mmmm. deal toys.
Slore
@13 – They’re real if you can touch them
While we are on topic of hotness – I think Trish Regan on CNBC today is beginning to get an edge on Mandy in the battle for being the ultimate hotness there.
The last picture is a work outfit????
GTFOH
She wont find another job on the street now those pics are published, so I hope she get a decent payoff…
Guerrerro Capital would hire her though.
confidence without substance is the new killing it.
I think all banks should hire super hot women to bring in more customers. Hey, I’m tired of the trollops that my branch has behind its counters. Probably a trollop that fired her Spanish ass in the first place.
Any-who, I don’t think she’s helpin’ her case by havin’ her naughty bits plastered all over the inter-webs.
her facebook page is NAILS! Bess – you may wanna pull some pics down for the boys
@37 anything in 3D?
@37 is she on Fuckbook?
Can we talk about Warren getting his dick sucked by FCIC on CSPAN now?
Esa hevita esta enterita tiene tremendo CULO!
esta tan linda, esta tan rica, tiene tremendo CULO!
que rica chiquita, pero que importa si tiene tremendo CULO!
Has me el favor y meneate chica tienes tremendo CULO!
Fuck the Puerto Ricans. Twenty to a car, swelling up the welfare rolls, worst fuckin’ parade in the city. And don’t even get me started on the Dom-in-i-cans, ’cause they make the Puerto Ricans look good.
- Monty
Based on her facebook page, no, she’s not too hot to work for $1/share. But she is too slorish.
Tits or GTFO
wow
http://www.facebook.com/#!/photo.php?pid=1410027&id=613593188
Bess,
Is your penis standing up?
http://www.facebook.com/#!/photo.php?pid=3823405&id=613593188&fbid=387894878188
@46 be more funny.
I like to be in America
Flaunt my pussy in America
You can get paid in America
Without getting laid in America
Put down the flag? Bunch of nonsense
Too hot for C, too cold for Perfect10.
“Where I’m from,” she says, switching into Spanish to explain it, “women dress up—like put on makeup and do their nails—to go to the supermarket. And I’m not talking trashy, you know, like in the Heights. I was raised very Latin, you know? We’re feminine. A woman in Puerto Rico takes care of herself. The Puerto Rican women here put down our flag.”
anyone conclude there may just possibly be other reasons she was not a good fit ?
Pic #2 (white skirt): she forgot to push up the left one.
Without a doubt, way too hot…these pictures do her no justice…head straight to facebook
Bess is too hot, couldn’t read.
alex garcia cohen is sponsoring her work at museo del barrio.
A Google search on her esteemed counsel brings up the following from the Daily News in 2008 — no wonder he know of penises standing up
“The founder of a Manhattan law firm dedicated to empowering women is a chauvinist pig with pierced genitals who wore a bondage collar at work, an explosive new suit charges.
“Jack Tuckner of Tuckner Sipser Weinstock & Sipser is being targeted by the firm’s former office manager – who once hired him in a discrimination case, but claims his office antics included talking about porn and threesomes.”
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2008/06/05/2008-06-05_top_sexual_harassment_attorney_called_ch.html#ixzz0piouKFv1
“Why the long face?”
- DJ LIBOR
Alejandro, Alejandro…Ale-ale-jandro
That picture with the peach top – that can’t be a work-related outfit. If it is, I’d just tell her to show less cleavage.
The other one – very funny. ;)
Oh yeah, not too hot to work, that is blasphemous.
But yes, VERY hot.
Stop wearing turtlenecks? Whu?
The vast majority of the fat, pale and bald(ing) people on this site would be lucky to get a such a POA so please quite down re her looks.
For those of us over the age of 22 without Facebook access, can someone post some pics of this horse faced hot tamale?
Yep, oust her immediately.
Perhaps sweettits needs to realize she’s not in Puerto Rico anymore…
I believe the phrase you are looking for is sugar tits (c.f. Mel Gibson) good sir
She is in the running to be an alternate Noel sister…
http://www.villagevoice.com/slideshow/too-hot-for-citibank–30014985/
Go long on the photog she hired.
$10 bucks says she shows up by christmas in December playboy
Just saying…
DJ LIBOR FTW!!!
Physically, she’s hot enough to work in a casino but she seems too uptight to last very long in one.
I’d knock some boots with this gasolina.
Hot now but like all latinas she’ll explode to 200 after she gives birth.
Que rica! Caliente! La quiero esta chica! Gostosa…
I work at Citi and I’ve seen better. My PA is hotter and her PA is hotter. Getting fired sucks though- if she needs to go to arbitration to make herself feel better about getting fired from Citi- it’s her right.
Some good news on her ‘culture’ front; the Puerto Rican Day parade is coming up…
Hah. This is headline news on fox 5. She’s got a amazing publicist, that’s for sure.
Face is a 6, body is an 8. She’ll be AC in 15 years. FB pics are a little better though.
The part of this story that puzzles me is the way the photos were taken. Her case (regardless of how it will be settled), will be based on the argument that her appearance in normal work clothing and her conduct at work were not “disruptive”.
Setting up those shots in a way that emphasizes her attractiveness with sexy poses and looks could very well -undermine- that, especially if Citibank’s lawyers use as their argument that she was the one being inappropriately sexual in the workplace.
Why not photograph her in the work outfits AND in work poses or situations, or at least more “neutral” poses?
I’m pretty sure this “chick” is a dude. Would be much a better discrimination case if she’d just admit to being a tranny.
you people are the biggest collection of douche bags ever assembled in one place.
Is that you Ashlee??
Hey Tiger Tiger.
@75
Your parents are parasitic lawyers I presume? Still swallowing their fairytales?
@80 what do you mean, “you people?”
Fake boobs.
what a bitch.
#17, if you were really Irish you wouldn’t ask. You’d already be drunk.
I was fired because my cock was too big.
#17 FTW
@87 Mike Oxbig?
@84 What do YOU mean, “you people?”
@78 Pretty sure THESE aren’t the photos being submitted as evidence.. just sayin’
@2 – too true. No such thing as too hot, too rich, or too smart. There is too thin though, Duchess of Windsor notwithstanding. Debrahlee, thankfully, is not too thin.
8.49
Bravo, 17.
sh!it if shes needs a job i got one, it pays 2 gs and day and all she has to do is spread those legs and make room for a cock meat sandwich.
OMG, I joined her Facebook Fan page!!
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Debrahlee-Lorenzana-Is-This-Women-Too-Hot-To-be-A-Banker/124404774261141?ref=ts
@Bess-
great tags as always. creepy lawyer pictured here [from one of her facebook albums]:
http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs294.snc3/28346_101831229866053_100001175292409_15873_2719509_n.jpg
Debrahlee – give me a call. You are gorgeous, smart, you are a great dresser, obviously talented. JP Morgan is just the place for you. You will be very happy here. Citi Citi Citi… proving once again… IDIOTS.
Hey #95 .. you are an asshole
Showing the boobs on the East Coast is a real issue – in LA, not so much, in fact even the older ladies show cleavage out there. If these pictures are what she was wearing to work in a bank, I think it’s too much – I wear really nice form flattering suits and heels for business, but keep the cleavage under wraps until after work.
Different story if these pictures are not what she wore to work.
i do her.
I hope you take the bank for every penny you can get.
I believe her. As a woman myself & I’m not as pretty as her, I get this kind of complaints at times from my workplace. I never tried to dress sexy but rather cute & stylish.. I got talked to every now and then about how I distracted others too… one time I was accused for showing my belly button, & apparently it didn’t happen on the day I was talked to but “before”.. it’s strange because I don’t own any shirt that is above my belly, & if anyone saw my belly, they would’ve seen my naval ring which I had for years but nobody ever knew. Another time they said I was showing legs when I was wearing capri pants. Oh & shoes, it’s like there are different policies for every individual, some ppl are allowed to wear anything while others are limited to a few choices. Not just me, I know a lot of girls I’ve worked with experience the same thing. Some of these girls dress very casual too. Though, I’ve never seen one that got fired for it, maybe no one dare to fight for it. For me, I never said anything, I just keep trying to style myself the way they want me to… I figure it’s only work, & I need my job. I can be myself outside workplace.
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