Everything about Debrahlee Lorenzana is hot. Even her name sizzles. At five-foot-six and 125 pounds, with soft eyes and flawless bronze skin, she is J.Lo curves meets Jessica Simpson rack meets Audrey Hepburn elegance—a head-turning beauty.
In many ways, the story of her life has been about getting attention from men—both the wanted and the unwanted kind. But when she got fired last summer from her job as a banker at a Citibank branch in Midtown—her bosses cited her work performance—she got even hotter. She sued Citigroup, claiming that she was fired solely because her bosses thought she was too hot.
This is the way Debbie Lorenzana tells it: Her bosses told her they couldn’t concentrate on their work because her appearance was too distracting. They ordered her to stop wearing turtlenecks. She was also forbidden to wear pencil skirts, three-inch heels, or fitted business suits. Lorenzana, a 33-year-old single mom, pointed out female colleagues whose clothing was far more revealing than hers: “They said their body shapes were different from mine, and I drew too much attention,” she says.
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“It’s like saying,” [Attorney Jack] 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.
Well, I’m distracted…
Yeah. I’d hit that ! Fuck’n Aye. Nail her with me club.
Well, she’s too hot to be your mom.
Where I work I happen to believe there’s a conspiracy among the female staff to hire only ugly women. They control the interview panels and its been years since one even moderately attractive woman has ever been hired.
Needless to say, I’m a depressed little monkey at work.
Only out of shape men or men that are physically unattractive feel awkward around beautiful women.
If you are accustomed to being around them all the time, it’s just normal.
The main problem is that there are too many “fatnerds” in this country.
The dynamics work like this: if you are a male working around a female of higher sex appeal, that thought will dominate your mind and you’ll wonder what it would take for someone like her to like someone like you (answer: she wouldn’t).
But if you are a male in great shape and take care of yourself, you aren’t even affected because attractive women make conversation and flirt with you all the time.
Typical internet age whore bullshit. She’ll have more money flying her way now then she would have at Citibank. I also love how she has these photos all ready to go. Dime a dozen.
Hmeyers,
BS
In my experience, the “type” of man incapacitated by an overtly sexual siren had nothing to do with the effect.
I myself was an out-of-shape, alpha nerd type, (though I was married in a very stable and rewarding relationship) and I had no problems around the siren. But there were other, nerds and more athletic/jock guys alike, married and single, who would literally run into a wall if they even saw her.
and seetheblacksun, while the story of the woman portrayed MIGHT be BS, I can assure you that it is quite possible that a woman can be so sexually attractive that many, if not most, men are literally incapacitated in their presence. Seen it myself. Sexual attractiveness is a learned behavior, though probably requires some minimum of physical appearance.
We have a good friend who studied this and worked very hard to perfect it when she was in college. She could turn it off and on at will and when she was “on”, she even LOOKED different… better, intensely sexual and aluring. Amazing.
Sadly, she has buried two husbands. Guess they could not take the stress. But they probably died happy.
I had an incredibly attractive secretary at one time. You get used to it. It certainly helps if “they” are totally professional as well.
During a rash of sexual harassment complaints in our 3000 employee business, I had a conversation about this with the company shrink: “How come in xx years I’ve never had a female employee come on to me?” He said, “Yea same here, I guess we just don’t give off the vibrations.”
It works both ways.
Maybe they want her to wear a Snuggie to work? (I do – It matches my “unique” physique so well!)
I had to fire her because she kept making my pants shrink!
She’s okay, but in these stills I can’t discern any uniqueness or personality in her face, so she’s just so-so. Plus most women hit their peak of physical beauty about age 23, and that’s waaaaay in the rear-view mirror for her. But you guys got me to bite on this one, and my incisors hurt now.
@26
“nerds and more athletic/jock guys alike, married and single, who would literally run into a wall if they even saw her”
Someone being a “jock” doesn’t necessarily mean they are comfortable around women.
Look at Tiger Woods. The reason he screwed around was low self-esteem.
Rather than belabor the point, I’ll admit that maybe 60% of men are awkward on some level around women they find attractive.
No matter how outwardly attractive a woman is, it’s what’s between her ears that really matters in the long run.
No matter how attractive a woman is, someone somewhere is sick and tired of her sh–.
(Around here, Thursday is cliche day).
Not tuned into the fuss but surely she should not be exposing her mammary glands at work – unless she intends to feed her offspring.
The manager’s boyfriend. That’s all I’m saying.
I admit that she does look nice, but she is not so hot that she could distract people from working.
I had to look up pencil skirt. It looked like a long knee length skirt to me. It’s not like she is showing a lot of leg in one. They looked pretty modest to me. According to the article she was forbidden to dress professionally. Turtlenecks, pencil skirts, and fitted business suits are what women wear in the office or at a bank. All are modest. It’s not like she was wearing yoga pants and a tube top. Indeed they wanted her to wear a burka.
She might have a case of sexual harassment at least.
# 30 – most women hit their peak of physical beauty about age 23
Let me guess – you’re 26, right?
Real women start to look better and better after they hit 30.
I was going to comment but I forgot what I was going to say.
No doubt, she is hot. But please CitiBank – this is year 2010 and not the middle ages!
Dang me, In the few gigs I worked with hotties (none that hot), I never saw any problem with it. It’s the kind of distraction that makes me work ‘harder’. I remember this one job just outside of Philly. I was working in repair at Bell Atlantic. Everybody in repair starts out taking calls. Being bilingual I was in there with all the puertorican chicks. Man I loved that job, I was like #2 on the overtime ranking, earned my rent in one week, and I owed it all to that lovely distraction. If I had a competitive business I’d make sure I had plenty of hotties to keep my boys motivated.
I don’t see a problem with a good looking woman in the workplace. Can brighten an otherwise dreary day. I see that one poster here has mastrophobia though…