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    Would you like a Banker like this?

    She's out of a job :-




    Bank worker Debrahlee Lorenzana sacked for looking 'too good'

    Former bank worker Debrahlee Lorenzana is claiming she was fired from Citibank for dressing too sexily.

    The single mother has told an employment tribunal she was ordered her not to wear pencil skirts or fitted suits because it distracted other workers. The 33-year-old said she wore purely professional clothes but still ‘the way they looked at what I wore was very disappointing’.

    Her claim in the Manhattan Supreme Court states: ‘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.’

    Ms Lorenzana, from New York, joined Citibank as a business banking officer in September 2008 and told a US newspaper: ‘I can’t help it that I have curves. And I’m not going to go eat and gain 50 or 100 pounds because my job wants me to be the same size as everyone else.’ Citibank said: ‘We believe this lawsuit is without merit.’

    Bank worker Debrahlee Lorenzana sacked for looking 'too good' | Metro.co.uk


    Personally, I think every US citizen should petition the government and make Citi pay back their bailout funds right now.

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    Quote Originally Posted by sabang
    And I’m not going to go eat and gain 50 or 100 pounds because my job wants me to be the same size as everyone else.’
    You stand up for your rights to stay slim and sexy

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    Quote Originally Posted by sabang View Post
    She's out of a job :-
    She's not that good looking if you check out her other pictures. She only looks good from a particular side angle. From straight on, it's obvious she's got wide hips, short legs, and an overbite. Plus, she's a single mom, and carries quite a bit of baggage, it seems.

    Good on her to try to milk her 15 minutes, though. Must be a slow news day for the media.

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    Apart from suing Citibank for wrongful dismissal, Ms Lorenzana has capitalised on her substantial assets (as any decent banker should) and done a photoshoot for 'Village Voice' Magazine in New York.

    Lets investigate.







    Those assets require no leveraging.

    Edit H'mm, those Links above don't open for me- have to right click and open in another Tab, that works. Anyhow, they're part of a Slideshow, so if you're that desperate-

    http://www.villagevoice.com/slidesho...nk--30014985/1
    Last edited by sabang; 07-06-2010 at 07:50 AM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by DaffyDuck View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by sabang View Post
    She's out of a job :-
    She's not that good looking if you check out her other pictures. She only looks good from a particular side angle. From straight on, it's obvious she's got wide hips, short legs, and an overbite. Plus, she's a single mom, and carries quite a bit of baggage, it seems.

    Good on her to try to milk her 15 minutes, though. Must be a slow news day for the media.
    Yep, complete munter - wouldn't do her with yours Daffy...

    Debrahlee Lorenzana sues Citigroup after she was 'fired for being too attractive' | Mail Online

    "I've got a head for business and a bod for.... Roberto Cavalli" - Mail Online - Liz Jones: Dispatches from fashion's front row
    de gustibus non est disputandum

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    Quote Originally Posted by DaffyDuck
    She's not that good looking if you check out her other pictures.
    In the process. I'd say she's pretty sexy, but not exactly a ten. Hips a bit big too.

    No wonder they sacked her.

    One thing led to another, and lo and behold Debrahlee now has her very own Op-Ed in the New York Times, written by Maureen Dowd. Who is no slouch herself.


    Dressed to Distract

    It’s hard to feel sorry for a woman who frets about being too beautiful.

    Ordinarily in life, extraordinary good looks are an advantage for men and women — and even babies. Not only do babies gaze longer at more comely adult faces, research tells us, but parents may gaze longer at more comely babies.

    A research team at the University of Alberta conducted a study at a supermarket and observed that parents gave more attention and supervision to their pretty ducklings.

    Aesthetic allure is evolutionary, after all. “Like lots of animals,” said Dr. Andrew Harrell, the team leader, “we tend to parcel out our resources on the basis of value.”

    So it was unusual when a knockout in New York, Debrahlee Lorenzana, a 33-year-old single mother, filed suit against Citigroup, claiming that she was fired in August from the Citibank branch at the Chrysler Center for looking too sexy.

    “Plaintiff was advised that as a result of the shape of her figure,” her lawsuit reads, “such clothes were purportedly `too distracting’ for her male colleagues and supervisors to bear.”


    Op-Ed Columnist - Dressed to Distract - NYTimes.com


    The future is looking bright for Ms Lorenzana.

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    Quote Originally Posted by graym
    Yep, complete munter - wouldn't do her with yours Daffy.
    Interesting Defence.

    How could we have sacked her for 'being too sexy'?? She's a munter. Wouldn't do 'er with yours, Your Honour.

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    just a few more, for research.













    So, waddya think- Citibank guilty, or not?
    How much do you think Debrahlee Lorenzana will get?
    Last edited by sabang; 07-06-2010 at 07:51 AM.

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    Not a problem for the bank...more likely a problem with the Managements wives!!!

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    Actually I wonder if her boss is a woman.
    An overweight lardass.

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    check out her plates of meat, yikes

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    She would be a pleasure to look at in a bank.....better than most.

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    could give a whole new meaning to personal banking!

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    Quote Originally Posted by CharleyFarley View Post
    check out her plates of meat, yikes
    haven't looked at those yet.

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    I have heard the phrase ' who looks at the mantlepiece when stoking the fire?" but feet?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dug View Post
    Actually I wonder if her boss is a woman.
    An overweight lardass.
    that was my first thought; apart from a couple of years out for study I spent most of last 18yrs in government HR, seen plenty of examples of 120kg+ women hiring similar physiques, in some departments it semed 100+ was a minimum requirement.

    My last role had to work on secondment 6mths with a huge lardass who had the fashion sesnse and style of Mimi from the Drew Carey show, only bigger. She was well-known for staff-abuse but no one would confront it/her, classic bully.


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    American men are all homos, can't seem to enjoy a nice woman figure in the workplace without being upset

    American women are worst though, they are like men, actually they are men, which explain why American men are whining little bitches and queers

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    Quote Originally Posted by DaffyDuck
    She only looks good from a particular side angle. From straight on, it's obvious she's got wide hips, short legs, and an overbite. Plus, she's a single mom, and carries quite a bit of baggage
    I thought that was the type of woman you went for. I'm sure that description is quite fitting for most of the prostitutes you spend your holidays with.

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    Thats gotta hurt...

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    Christ, anyone who reckons she's a munter must be gay.
    ( I already knew Butterbutt and dafney were)

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    I'd make a deposit.

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    Quote Originally Posted by English Noodles View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by DaffyDuck
    She only looks good from a particular side angle. From straight on, it's obvious she's got wide hips, short legs, and an overbite. Plus, she's a single mom, and carries quite a bit of baggage
    I thought that was the type of woman you went for. I'm sure that description is quite fitting for most of the prostitutes you spend your holidays with.
    See, what you guys from the proletariat don't seem to grasp, is that insults only actually have a chance of hitting a target .... (wait for it) IF THEY WERE ACCURATE!

    Calling a thin guy "Hey, fatso!" would most likely, at best, result in a look of confusion over who it is you were yelling at.

    If anything, your blind stab in the dark is, at best, an indictment of your own displayed tastes in female companionship - and you already have your own background as a serious handicap against you, in that regard. Most guys I see in Thailand from any place in the former British Empire generally display a horrendous taste in the girls they pick (most likely feeling homesick for Blighty, or something) - pair that with the endemic alcoholism, and the joke, I'm afraid, is on you.

    I realize I used many big words in the above -- maybe you can have Butterfly explain it to you. I hear he's quite a bit more literate than you, but coming from the same social background, he might be more inclined to help you out.

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    Quote Originally Posted by DaffyDuck
    Most guys I see in Thailand from any place in the former British Empire generally display a horrendous taste in the girls they pick
    As you are from a place in the former British Empire, it's good that you admit it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dug
    I already knew Butterbutt and dafney were
    Careful....he was spotted in a friends bar one evening with a pooove.

    Quote Originally Posted by DaffyDuck
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    If i cared....I would have to look this word up.


    I just love the way Daffney does not care....but then bores us to tears telling us why he does not care....sure sign of you getting to him Doodles.....
    I like poisoning my neighbours dogs till they die cos I'm a cnut

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    Quote Originally Posted by Nawty
    If i cared....I would have to look this word up.
    He's a Marxist, he's calling us prai.

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