sexual harrassment

Since the Debrahlee “Too Hot For Citi” Lorenzana story has come out– which has included soft-core porn spreads, morning show appearances, and allegations that DL was canned because her presence distracted her male colleagues, who supposedly couldn’t work in her presence because their “penises were standing up”– Citi has had to keep its thoughts on the matter relatively brief. They still have to go to arbitration with this lady and Jamie Dimon and his firm are the only ones allowed to tell a woman to “zip it, Toots” without taking any heat. So while we’ve heard lots of “this case is without merit,” and so on an so forth, we’ve yet to have Citi tell us how they really feel, re: the girl who dreamed of being “Tits on a Stick.” Today that ends, with a spokeswoman for the bank offering that in her opinion, this chick is not that hot.

Citibank rep Natalie Riper [noted], “Just because she’s saying she was too hot doesn’t mean it’s so.”

Tomorrow, Vikram Pandit’s “brutal truth” on the bazonkas in question. Not to be missed.

Screen shot 2009-10-14 at 1.54.49 PM.pngFucking women. It’s not that financial services firms in the UK don’t want to employ them, or think they couldn’t do just as bang-up a job as the men. This is not one of those situations.* The Brits love the ladies and would like nothing than more to hire them, and maybe maul them a little on the job. And therein lies the problem. Not with the grabbing of asses, per se. Nothing wrong with that. The issue is with the obscene potential pay-out these chippies could collect in the event their colleagues or superiors decide through no fault of their own to get pawsy.

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